Icarus 10

During the second year class league final, Ichika was on the ropes against Kanazashi.

With each of his sword slashes , the bespectacled girl counted with her laser naginata.

Ichika continued his assault but no matter how fast or strong his attacks were, Kanazashi managed to block or parry them.

To Orimura's surprise , Kanazashi managed to disarm him and was immediately shot down by the Uchigane Nishiki's particle cannons.

As Ichika attempts to get back to the sky, he looks up to see he was surrounded by the 48 missiles of Mountain Storm.

While Ichika was able to use the Setsura to block a couple of the missiles, he was bombarded from his blind spots as his shield energy was reduced to zero.

As Ichika looked to the floor in defeat he thought "What the hell it's like I've gotten weaker."

Later in the day, Ichika was sitting training his sword skills at the kendo dojo.

From the doorway, Wyatt watched his roommate train and said "Pretty poor showing today."

As he took a break from his training, Ichika said "I don't know why, I was able to go head to head against Natasha two weeks ago. Now losing matches left and right."

Wyatt says "Well it's pretty obvious what the reason is."

Ichika responds "It's because your modifications made my unit weaker."

Wyatt smirks as he takes a Bo staff from the corner as he says "Let me demonstrate the reason for your current losing streak."

As the two get ready to face off , Wyatt says "You can have the first move."

Slightly aggravated by this cocky attitude, Ichika launched a vertical slash. But to his surprise, Wyatt used the butt of his staff to stop the attack dead in its tracks.

Ichika raised his sword and unleashed a horizontal slash but once again, Wyatt blocked the attack.

In a last ditch effort, Orimura goes in for a rising slash at his opponent's chin, but before the attack could land Wyatt dodge the blow and counters by slapping Ichika's face.

Shocked at Wyatt's absolute defense, Ichika asked "Seriously how did you do that?"

Wyatt takes a small notebook from his pocket and hands it to his roommate.

Ichika began to read the marked page and was shocked to see it described their sparring match to the letter.

Wyatt says "I wrote that 20 minutes ago, now do you see what your weakness is?"

Ichika says "Yeah, my sword style became useless against everyone at the academy. But it's the same style Chifyu used to win the Mondo Grosso."

Wyatt explains "Exactly, even the strongest style has its weaknesses. After enough time those weaknesses will become clear to those closest to you."

Ichika says "So what I'm supposed to do, give up using the Yukihira? Other than the Setsura it's my only weapon."

Wyatt says "No because other than being a halfway decent swordsman, you're pretty shit in using the other weapons in your arsenal."

Ichika says "You really don't sugarcoat things."

Wyatt says "Hold on let me finish. I've seen you do the impossible time and time again. So I know that you can get out of this slump with a style all your own."

Ichika says "Wow, honestly thanks for the vote of confidence."

Wyatt asked "So who do you have a date with tomorrow?"

Ichika responds "Actually I'm free tomorrow, so I can take the day to just relax."

Wyatt says "If that's the case do you mind going picking some stuff up in town."

Ichika says "Come on this is my last free day in a while, can't you or one of the freshmen do it."

Wyatt responds "I got to work at the maintenance hangars to review repair and modifications orders, while the freshmen have a tournament to prepare for."

Ichika sighed, "Fine but you owe me some ramen at Burai's."

Wyatt snickers as he says "Sure thing, try not to stay up too late."

As the American left the dojo, Ichika thought "I wonder what my new style would be like."

The next day as Caleb and Trent were sparring with each other at Arena 4.

As their weapons clashed , Caleb asked "So from what I've heard there's going to be a tag match tournament in a few weeks."

Trent formed a fist and punched Caleb out of striking range. The Australian says "Yeah with our training and units, any one of us guys can win."

Caleb says "I can agree on that, so I guess I can sign us up for a pair then."

Trent paused as he said "Yeah about that I'm thinking of joining someone else."

Caleb says "Yeah you're right, Harrison definitely would make for a better partner due to his unit being a long ranged one."

Trent says "Yeah about that, I'm thinking I might team up with a girl."

Hearing this got Caleb's attention as he says "Seriously, but the only girl with a unit is that Luxembourg Princess."

Trent says "No it's not her, it's a general student. She's in a different class than us but I've known her since Secondary school."

A grin formed on the Kenyan boy's face as he said "I see so you like her then."

This comment caused Trent to blush as he said "What? No way me and Yasmine? That's completely ridiculous."

From the corner of the stadium, Harrison says "Then why are you blushing idiot."

Trent says "No one's talking to you Harry and why are you even here."

Harrison says "I got bored, so I decided to watch you train. But I didn't expect our lanky idiot to have a crush."

Caleb says "Wait, I believe I heard the name before?"

Harrison says "Oh yeah if I recall she's a part of the volleyball club with Kaitlynn ."

Trent says "Look I can ask Yasmine myself, I don't need anyone's help."

Harrison says "If that's the case at least get some advice from Wyatt."

Caleb says "True but he is pretty busy with his part time job right now."

At the maintenance hangar of Arena 6 , Wyatt was at a desk reviewing work orders while listening to the Beatles through his headphones . Suddenly he heard something slam onto his desk.

Wyatt looked up to see Rin in front of him. He took off his headphones and said with apathy "Welcome what can I help you with?"

Rin passes him the form and says "I need to increase the blast of my impact cannon's rapid fire function."

After checking the form for a second, Wyatt yawns and says "Denied ."

Rin shouts "What do you mean, you barely looked at it."

Wyatt says "In order to work on this unit you need the written consent from the Chinese government and precise instructions on what to modify. This is an old form to repair your unit's left thruster."

Rin says "Come on I'm sure you can look over such a small thing."

Wyatt says "Sorry but your nation's approval is necessary for any significant modifications. Please step out of the line so I can help the next person."

As an irritated Rin out of the line , Laura steps to the desk and hands Wyatt a form.

The American takes his time to look over the form as he says "I see finally deciding to improve your unit's aerial abilities."

Laura says "Yes Germany recently found a way to give the Schwarzer Regen better aerial mobility without significant decrease in its defense and fire power."

Wyatt grins as he stamps the form and says "Alrighty then, I'll see that the parts are ordered and your unit is modified as soon as possible."

This shocked Rin as she says "This is so unfair, how come she gets her order approved."

Wyatt says "Miss Bodewig has all the appropriate forms and signatures. Please if you don't have a work request please leave the office."

Rin left the hangar as Wyatt continued with his work.

Meanwhile in town, Ichika found himself in front of a dagashi shop.

As he looked at the list and saw that other than a special ordered nozzle, the list consisted solely of snacks.

Ichika thought "Of course he would get me to do a snack run for him."

As he enters the shop he is greeted by the same woman who ran the shop since he was a kid ,Miss Hasegawa.

While looking around he thought "Let's see he loves the Hello Panda cookies and he likes playing with Fue Ramune."

Once he grabbed as many snacks as possible and paid for them, he went to exit the store and saw Charlotte at the entrance.

Confused Charlotte asked "Ichika?!. What are you doing here?"

Ichika responds "Wyatt has me picking some stuff up for him while at his part time job. What about you."

Charlotte says "Well Wyatt told me that this shop would get a shipment of matcha Ramune today."

Ichika takes a bottle of the mentioned drink out of the bag and says "Well it was on his list so you can have this one."

As Charlotte takes the drink she says "Thanks, so do you have anything else to do?"

Ichika says "Yeah there's a couple of things I have to get at this hardware store Wyatt likes going to."

Charlotte says "Well if you need an extra hand I can help carry some of the stuff."

Ichika says "Sure thing, it's only a couple blocks away from here."

Once they got to the store and asked for the order , the two were surprised at the owner saying "Wait, I thought I told him the order got delayed."

Ichika says "Wait so you're saying Wyatt's order isn't here?"

The owner says "No, you see the measurements and material your friend specified for the nozzle are so specific, we have to make it from scratch. So it won't be ready until next week."

Ichika says "Well thanks for the help anyways , I'll tell Wyatt about the news."

As the two students walked out of the store, Ichika thought "Guess this is Wyatt's way of telling me it's now or never. And I guess it's now."

Charlotte asked "So Ichika do you want to go out for a bite to eat?"

Ichika smiles and says "Sure." As he looked at the girl he thought back to when they first met and said "Hey Charlotte we've been through a lot right?"

Charlotte says "Yeah we've definitely have. From terrorist attacks and killer satellites , our group definitely faced more threats then most."

Ichika says "True but I was talking less about the group as a whole and more about just the two of us."

This caught Charlotte's attention as she started to wonder where the conversation was heading.

Ichika continued "Honestly out of everyone at the academy, I can say you're probably the kindest. That's why I thought you were an amazing friend."

Charlotte's mood suddenly dropped as she says "Oh yeah, just a friend."

Ichika says "But over time I realized that even at our darkest moments we've helped each other out and supported one another. So I feel maybe we're more than friends."

Nervously Charlotte blushed a deep red as she nervously asked "A-and what d-do you mean by that?"

As Ichika took a deep breath he answered with great determination "That I'm in love with you, so would you go out with me?"

Charlotte was in complete shock as she was witnessing the day she's been dreaming of for almost 11 months was finally happening.

The girl pinched her wrist to see if this was just another dream but to her surprise and pleasure, she didn't wake up in her bed but was still in the town.

As she continued to look blankly at Ichika , the Japanese boy asked "Um Charl, you okay."

Charlotte snapped out of her trance and said "Yeah I'm good it's just a lot to process."

Ichika says "My confession was worried weird, wasn't it. I'm sorry but I had no idea I would be doing this today so I didn't have a speech prepared or."

His rambling was silenced as Charlotte wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips against his.

Ichika was shocked , while it wasn't his first kiss it felt different. His heart felt like it was going a hundred mile a second and his head felt like it was a helium balloon. But by sheer instinct, he wrapped his arms around Charlotte's body and embraced the French girl.

Once Charlotte broke away from the kiss , Ichika asked "So I take that as a yes?"

Charlotte giggles as she says "I've been waiting for this moment for months. No way I would say no."

Ichika smiles as he says "Well I hope it was worth the wait."

Meanwhile in France , Albert Dunios dropped a cup of tea onto his lap.

He screeches in pain as his butler , James, hands him a towel to wipe himself dry.

James asked "Are you okay sir, what happened?"

Albert looks at the broken tea cup and says "It's the strangest thing , right before I took a sip, the handle snapped off."

Confused James says "But that can't be sir, this was a recent gift from the CEO of Suzushima Trading Company. Their china and tableware are of the highest quality."

Albert says "Chances are this cup might've been damaged during shipping and we didn't notice it."

James bows and says "I'll go check the other teacups to see if they have a similar problem."

As Albert took a look at the cup he felt a strange chill on his back as he thought "What is this an omen of?"

Later back at the academy, Ichika walked into the doctor's cabin with a huge grin painted across his face.

As he saw Wyatt and Dr. Maxwell playing video games in the living room, Ichika placed the bag of snacks on the kitchen table.

Wyatt asked "Did you get everything on the list?"

Ichika responds "I got all the snacks but the nozzles you wanted aren't available until next week."

Dr. Maxwell says "That's fine, we don't need it immediately so we can wait."

Wyatt adds "So Ichika did you run into Charlotte along the way?"

Ichika sighed as he said "I know you were planning something and I guess it was a success."

When the two Americans heard what Ichika said they immediately paused the game and faced the Japanese boy.

Dr. Maxwell says "Does that mean what I think it means?"

Ichika says "Yep me and Charlotte are officially going out."

Wyatt shouts in celebration "YES! The Cupid Sniper never misses." He used his hand to mimic a gun firing at his roommate's heart as he went to snack on some of the Dagashi in the kitchen.

Ichika says "Yeah , Kaitlynn was responsible for this whole plan wasn't she?"

Wyatt responds "No shit, I'm barely better than you at long ranged weapons."

Ichika asked "Then what was with all that-." He paused for a second to mimic his roommate's voice "The Cupid Sniper never misses."

Wyatt says "You know me , when I'm excited I make gestures and why shouldn't I be excited when my two best buddies are going out."

Ichika giggles as he says "I know it's just so hard to believe. We can go on double dates."

Wyatt says "Not just that but get into a hobby. Like…. Antiquing?"

Ichika gasps as he says "Maybe not that but we can figure it out later."

Dr. Maxwell says "Still I'm surprised you're in one piece after you told the other girls you and Charlotte are an item."

It was at that moment, Ichika realized after an impromptu date with his new girlfriend, he went straight to the cabin without telling anyone else.

As the room went silent, Ichika panicked as he shouts"We gotta hide, like now!"

Wyatt says "That's why we got the hideout,let's go."

As Wyatt grabbed as many snacks as he could grab, Dr. Maxwell takes out a small grey device from his pocket. When he pressed the diamond-shaped button in its center , the device opened up to reveal a translucent, touch-sensitive panel between two solid end grips.

Ichika asked "What exactly is that thing?"

Dr. Maxwell responds "There were more than Core blueprints in Tabane's workshop."

As the man pressed a button on the device, the hidden elevator behind the bookcase revealed itself.

Once the three got into the elevator, Dr. Maxwell says "Now let's wait this out until Chifyu calms them down."

Ichika says "And I forgot to tell Chifyu as well."

As the elevator door closes , Wyatt says "Looks like we're in for a long wait."

Meanwhile as Charlotte was making her way through the second year dorms, she was still in complete shock at what just recently occurred. Not only did she kiss the boy of her dreams but the two are now officially going out.

Charlotte thought "If I tell anyone else this, they would tear Ichika to shreds."

Once Charlotte was in front of Kaitlynn's and Madoka's room, she knocked on the door to be greeted by Madoka.

Coldly Madoka asked "What do you want, Dunios?"

Nervously, Charlotte says "I was looking for Kaitlynn but if she isn't here, I can come back later."

Madoka sighed as she said "Hold it, I'm not doing anything and it seems you need to talk. So if you're willing I can listen."

She steps away from the door to allow Charlotte into the room. Once Madoka closed the door she asked "Let me guess , he ended doing something stupid again?"

Charlotte says "Actually it's the opposite, you see he told me-."

As she began to recall the event Charlotte's face turned a deep red as she could barely utter another word.

Slightly annoyed, Madoka says "He told you what, come on I'm doing my best to be social."

With all of her strength, Charlotte utters "H-he t-told me that he loves me."

A smirk forms on Madoka's face as she says "About damn time he figured that shit out."

Charlotte asked "Wait so you're not mad about that?"

Madoka took several moments to think as she said "Well out of the rest of the girls, you're the least annoying and a decent pilot. So you're the best option of his fangirls."

Charlotte chuckles as she says "Well thanks for the encouragement."

Madoka says "Hey it's not too often I get to play good cop."

This confused Charlotte as she asked "Why would you be playing good cop."

Madoka responds "That's because you know Chifyu will definitely integrate you once she finds out."

Charlotte began to sweat in fear of that talk with the first Brunhilde in her near future.

The weekend passed as early in the morning, Wyatt and Ichika were heading to the cafeteria.

Ichika asked "So you're sure everything is going to be alright?"

Wyatt says "I'm sure no one knows ,so stop worrying. Just remember, deny, deny,deny."

As the two entered the cafeteria, every girl immediately looked at them dead in the eyes.

Ichika's body tensed up as he thought "Shit they know."

As Ichika looked at Wyatt's face , he could tell the American was thinking "Don't worry I got this."

Ichika began to calm down as he thought "I hope you know what you're doing."

Wyatt closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Once he clasped his hands and opened his eyes ,he said in a calm tone "Run."

The two ran out the room as the girls began to chase after them.

Ichika says "RUN?! The only plan you could come up with was to run? I could've came up with that."

Wyatt says "Look I panicked, besides running has proven to work a lot in the past."

While the two we're running through the hallways , they saw the freshmen walking in their direction.

Then suddenly to the other four boys and even to his own surprise, Harrison lunged towards his upper class men and pushed them to the floor.

Without warning, Rin's Souten Gagetsu crashed into the wall where Wyatt and Ichika would've been in front if they weren't stopped.

Shocked Ichika says "Wow thanks Harry we didn't even see that attack coming."

Harrison says "Thanks but I didn't either."

As Rin and several other of the cadets began to surround the guy's, Ichika noticed that Wyatt was completely out cold.

Ichika begins to shake his friend and says "Come on Wyatt get up. We're completely surrounded."

Harrison says "I think the shock of almost getting killed knocked him out."

Houki walks up to Ichika and asks "So can you explain the rumor that's going on around you?"

Ichika says "Rumor what rumor, I've been helping Wyatt and Dr. Maxwell with their new project all weekend ."

Cecilia says "Don't play dumb, one of the third years saw you and Charlotte kissing on Saturday."

Ichika says "I'm sorry but I have to get Wyatt back to the room, he got knocked unconscious."

Houki scoffs as she says "Please he's faking and I know how to prove it."

She unsheathes a katana and stabs the blade right in the middle of Wyatt's afro.

But to Houki's surprise, Wyatt didn't move an inch as Ichika exclaimed "What the hell Houki, you could've killed him."

Houki scowls as she takes the blade out of the ground as Ichika carries Wyatt back to the dorms.

Once the two managed to safely get into the room, Ichika said "All clear."

Wyatt's eyes blinked for a few seconds as he says "Good and also damn it! Every time I come here with a new hairstyle other than a buzz cut, in a month or so it gets messed up. I'm not Ryu from Shaman King."

Ichika says "Sorry she kind of caught me by surprise."

Wyatt sighed as he said "It's alright, you just head to class, I gotta deal with this hair situation."

Later around lunch, the usual group minus Wyatt and Charlotte were hanging out on the roof.

Rin says "Now that we're all here, we care to explain what is going on."

Ichika says "The rumors are true , me and Charlotte kissed after I told her I loved her."

Hearing the news caused all the girls to gasp in shock as they have officially lost the war to the love of their lives.

Tatenashi asked "So did you tell Chifyu about this yet?"

Ichika rubbed the back of his neck and said "Yeah I still need to get around to tell her that."

Cecilia asked, "By the way , where is the lucky girl in question?"

Laura responds "She went to help Wyatt out with his hair situation."

From the doorway to the roof Charlotte and Wyatt arrived with his now wavy hair cut to neck length.

Once Wyatt sat down, he took a orange hair tie from his pocket to style his hair into a top knot bun.

As everyone stood silent, Wyatt said "I'm just going to say it but I think I look good."

While attempting not to laugh , Ichika asked "So… what made you decide on that look?

Wyatt confidently replies "Because I'm tired of having to get a buzz cut at this school. Plus like I said , I pull the look off."

Houki asked, "So you're not angry that I cut off your hair?"

Wyatt says "Yeah but I've already gotten my pay back. Good luck trying to sign out a unit for the rest of the semester. So how are the rest of you taking the news."

As the girls nervously looked down , Wyatt said "Guess not well but think of it like this, one of you had to win eventually. Now we can move on as a group."

Laura smirks as she says "He does have a point, things have been going on for too long."

This shocked most of the group as Rin says "Hold it, weren't you the most gung-ho about making Ichika your bride."

Laura sighed "Yeah but Charlotte's my friend, so while I'm sad I lost I'm happy that her love is requited."

Wyatt pats the German girl on her head and says "That's a mature outlook soldier. Now can you guys be happy for a friend's success even if it's from your defeat."

Tatenashi says "Maybe I mean if Kaitlynn is able to forgive you for not telling anyone you were in Japan during March we can admit defeat."

Everyone was surprised at that comment as Kaitlynn gave a scarily sweet smirk as she asked "And what does that mean Wyatt?"

Wyatt nervously answered "Well I was here for a quick job but there wasn't enough time for me to stop by the academy."

Tatenashi adds "Yet you had time to go to a Super Sentai event with Ichika."

The president takes put her phone to show a video of Wyatt and Ichika posing with several suit actors at a stage show.

Wyatt looked at his roommate and said "You told me you weren't followed."

Ichika says "I tried my best, me and Dan even snuck out the back entrance of his place just in case."

Kaitlynn exclaimed "Wait you knew he was coming and you didn't say anything?"

Wyatt responds "The three of us bought the tickets right before we left for the Excalibur mission. We decided at the last minute we all still wanted to go but I felt it would be weird to pop up after vanishing for two months and say "Sorry I got to go back to America for work" , you would be mad."

At that moment, Charlotte and Kaitlynn activate their IS unit and summon their shotgun and bow respectively.

Wyatt and Ichika looked at each other as the latter asked "So is this the fury of an angry girlfriend?"

As the girls aim their weapons at the guy's heads , Wyatt says "Welcome to my world."


Okay after 100K words, Ichika finally picked a girl. With that we can finally get to the real meat and potatoes of this new series. And to celebrate, time to write some character sheets for our favorite 3 freshmen.

Full Name : Caleb Kirby

Birthday: December 1st

Favorite Food : His mom's Chilli

ENG voice actor : Bryson Baugus

SUB voice actor : Natsuki Hanae

Full Name : Trent Gibson

Birthday: October 30th

Favorite Food : Pizza

ENG voice actor : Andrew Love

SUB voice actor : Tasuku Hatanaka

Full Name : Harrison Solo

Birthday : March 15th

Favorite Food: Bouillabaisse

ENG voice actor : Daman Mills

SUB voice actor: Kensho Ono