Icarus 12.1
2 days passed since the visit to SED as the boys minus Trent deployed their units at Arena 2.
Ichika says "Now that I'm thinking about it, this is the first time we're actually going to spare."
Wyatt mentions "Well I did go over some sword practice with Caleb but that was only in a partial deployment."
As Caleb materialized his blade , he says "Yeah but this time I'm ready for you're tricks."
The match as Wyatt and Ichika charged at Caleb , while Harrison ascended to the sky for a better shot with his gun.
Ichika goes in for a downwards slash and Caleb managed to parry the blow. But to his surprise Wyatt lunged his spear from beneath's his partner's armpits to deal a direct blow at the defenseless Caleb.
The Kenyan boy was knocked back a few meters as Ichika flew up to the sky to catch up with Harrison.
Wyatt says "Tactic #1 : Always start off with a combination attack against the least prepared fighter."
As he was breathing heavily, Caleb says "Thanks for the advice." He goes in to attack with his blade as Wyatt blocked it with his spear.
Meanwhile in the air , Ichika was using the Yukihira to deflect the bullets coming from Harrison's gun ,Tidal Shot
Harrison continued to fire shot after shot but Ichika continued to parry the attacks without any problems."
Once Orimura got in striking range he swung his blade but stopped it right before it made contact. He says "Pretty good aim but it's not the best way to keep a distance between you and your opponent."
Harrison grunts as he says "Stop trying to make this a tutoring session." He materialized a knife and tried to stab his opponent but Ichika managed to catch it between his index and middle fingers.
With his free hand, Ichika swung the Yukihira and delivered a powerful slash to Harrison.
Back on the ground as Wyatt kept in parrying Caleb's attack, the American says "You've got some talent on the offense but let's see how you handle things on the defensive."
In an instance Wyatt managed to switched his form and dealt several blindly fast spear thrust at his opponent.
Caleb was sent right to the wall as he thought "What the hell, that was like three different strikes at the same time."
While twirling his spear Wyatt says "Come on you've gotta do a better job keeping that guard up."
Caleb lunged forward but was still on unable to get pasted Wyatt's defense, and if he relaxed even a little, the American would go right back on the attack.
Harrison crashed down from the sky as he asked "How are things going on your end."
A very out of breath Caleb was flung next to his partner and says "Not too good."
Right when Ichika landed next to Wyatt, the Japanese teen asked "So how should we end this?"
Wyatt smirks as he pointed his spear at the freshmen tag team and says "I've been saving this trick for my rematch with you, but it's a special occasion."
To everyone's surprise the drill spearhead dematerialized as the familiar jet-shaped blade appeared in its place.
Ichika smirks and says "Now that's a throwback." He fired a shot from the Setsura's particle cannon as Wyatt launched the spear head at their opponents.
The two underclassmen were sent flying into the wall as they noticed they barely had any shield energy left.
Harrison says "Alright Caleb I have an idea but I need you to do exactly what I say because we only got a single shot."
Caleb attempts to get up but due to Wyatt's attack , he found he couldn't get his unit to respond. He says "Lay it on me."
While the two freshmen silently discussed their plans , Ichika asked "Shouldn't we attack while they can't move?"
After slightly hesitation, Wyatt responds "Nah, let's see what their cooking up."
Caleb immediately flew right towards Wyatt as the American materialized an anchor shaped spearhead onto his staff. But just before they could clash, the Kenyan teen moved away from the collusion.
At first Wyatt was confused until he saw the swarm of missiles that were about to descend upon him.
The American smirks as he thought "Now that's a combo attack."
Just before the missiles could make contact, Wyatt swung his staff in an arc in order to strike down the entire deployment.
Harrison looked in shook as Wyatt explains "For a combination attack, I'll give you a B. But by firing all of those missiles at once , it's easy to take them down in one strike."
As Wyatt rested his weapon on his left shoulder, he aimed his shield's guns and fired several shots right at Harrison .
Harrison grunted in pain as he saw his shield energy became zero from that last attack. Then soon enough, Caleb struck down by one of Ichika's sword strikes.
Sarcastically, Ichika asked "So Wyatt, from a score of 1 to 10, what would you give these two."
Wyatt sat down "They definitely gave it their all, but against a duo like Wright Brother Advance. So I'll give them a 7."
Ichika groans "Seriously, you're naming scheme is really the worst. You probably named that spear of yours something dumb as well."
Wyatt argues " The Transforming Staff : ChameOh is an awesome name."
Before Ichika could respond, he took several second to think over the name and admits "I'm not going to lie , that's actually a good name."
Giddily Wyatt goes on to explain more about his new weapon "Essentially like the Setsura , a multi-purpose weapon that can switch modes in the form of different spearheads. The ones you saw are the Drill Bunker, Jet Lance and TriAnchor."
Ichika groaned "And there's your bad naming scheme once again."
As the group deactivated their units, the freshmen groaned in defeat. Caleb says "Damn it, it's like we can only win against people without personal IS's."
Wyatt walks towards them and says "Rome wasn't built in a day and so aren't our skills. Besides we mostly learned through a dozen life and death situations."
Ichika sighed "I know, it's honestly weird not to be fighting for my life."
The freshmen looked at their upperclassman weirdly as Harrison says "You guys have issues."
Wyatt changed the subject "Anyways, you guys are improving but Caleb you gotta work on keeping your opponent on the back foot. Harry, you need to improve that suppressive fire to keep the enemy at a distance."
Ichika nodded his head in agreement "Even so we know you guys can easily make it to the finals as long as you don't face Airis and Ran early on."
Caleb mentions "So is that it for today or is there anything else?"
Wyatt responds "Yeah, me and Ichika got that party to go to."
Shocked Ichika asked "Wait that's today, I thought it was on Friday?"
In an attempt to relax his friend, Wyatt says "Don't worry , you can go halfsies on my gift."
Later in the day, Charlotte was pushing Laura towards the Cafeteria.
Confused, Laura asked "So what's with the rush Charl?"
Nervously Charlotte responds "Well I'm just hungry that's all."
Once they entered the cafeteria, they saw Ichika and Wyatt attempting to hang a "Happy Birthday" Banner.
Kaitlynn snarks "I told you they'll be here any second."
Laura asked "Wait who's birthday are we celebrating?"
After hanging up the banner, Wyatt placed a party hat on the German girl's head and responds "It's yours Bodwig."
Charlotte adds "Since you've never had a birthday we decided to celebrate it today."
Laura asked "But why choose a Wednesday to celebrate instead of Friday?"
Ichika says "It's because we can only truly celebrate it on June 7th."
At that moment Laura realized what the group meant as she says "My first day at the academy."
Wyatt hands the girl a badly wrapped gift "Here's a little something from me and … Ichika." He struggles to mention the last part.
Laura opens up the box to see it was a black eye patch with a chrome-colored skull and a white one with a pair of Angel wings.
Madoka whispered to Kaitlynn "Did you seriously let him pick out those gifts?"
Kaitlynn sighed "He would've brought it regardless of what I said."
Laura looked at the gift and began to chuckle "Ichika definitely forgot to get a gift didn't he."
Ichika groaned and asked "How could you tell?"
Laura explains "Because this is a gift Wyatt would get without supervision."
Wyatt says "But it's still an awesome gift, you get to switch things up now."
Laura smiled "True but you don't really have the best fashion sense."
Wyatt argued "That's rich coming from the girl who wears kitty pajamas."
Laura counters "And how's that different from your one piece dinosaur pajamas."
Charlotte breaks up the argument "Alright you two, let's calm down and celebrate."
Kaitlynn gives Laura a box with a pair of black ASICS sneakers. She mentioned "From me and Madoka, hope we can go for a run at some point."
Laura says "I'll have to take you up on that offer."
The group continued onto the night partying and celebrating the one year anniversary of their favorite German.
The next day after school, Wyatt was at Hayashida's mechanic shops waiting for his order.
The owner , Mr Hayashida hands him a box and says "Here you go kid, those custom nozzles you've ordered."
Wyatt says "Thanks, I know these most of been a pain to get but they'll be put to good use."
Mr Hayashida asked "So what are these going to be used for anyways, Mr. IS?"
Wyatt responds "Basically it's going to be a Vernier thruster that's going to increase my unit's speed with a major boost in stability."
Mr. Hayashida says "Well when you make it big, don't forget the little guy."
Wyatt chuckles as he takes the parts and left to store. Right as exited the building, he went to the alleyway around the corner and said "Alright Xander, what do you want now?"
But to the American's surprise it wasn't Xander but the mysterious masked male Ichika met over a month ago.
Wyatt asked "Alright my mistake, who are you?"
Ace says "You can call me Ace, I've been working with Xander for the past month."
Wyatt looks at the figure at says "Okay "Ace" if that's you're real name. Tell me why I should trust you."
Ace responds "When you and doc went to Switzerland, you rented the porno "2 Beavers 1 Lumberjacks". While the doc hasn't mentioned it, you know he probably saw it show up on the hotel's bill."
Before Wyatt could ask how he could know, he figured out Ace's identity "I'm guessing this isn't just a friendly visit."
Ace answered "You already know about the experiments for male pilots, well Phantom Task has been involved in child abduction for these test."
Hearing this pissed Wyatt off, "I know Phantom Task was evil but never knew they would stoop to this level."
Ace explains "Things have changed under Autumn's leadership. She's raging out against the world until she gets Squall back."
Wyatt responds "True that makes sense, but what are we going to do about it?"
Ace smirks "Expect for psycho Talia , all the other top brass are away for a mission. So we bust into the facility , free the kids and expose the organization to the light."
Wyatt takes a second to think and says I'm guessing you want this to be strictly a duet."
Ace replies "If shit goes south we need a quick get away. Plus we both know your protégés aren't ready for this yet. We'll meet up Saturday night, I'll text you the location on your burner."
While processing the news, Wyatt smirks "Let's take these bitches down."
The American left the alleyway with the parts and made his way back to the academy.
Once he arrived at the maintenance hangar of Arena 6, he saw a Felicia sorting through spare parts.
Wyatt sneaked up behind her and said "I doubt you'll find a boyfriend in there."
Felicia gives a fake laugh and asked "I thought you didn't have a shift today?"
Wyatt took a nearby roller chair and said "Well I wanted to share the good news that I got the last part for my thrusters."
Felicia smirks "So you're about to get started on making the switch?"
As Wyatt began to spin in the chair , he explained "I was but I got some news and it's going to have to wait. Still it's been a while since we've last talked."
Felicia stopped the chair from spinning and said "That's because your girlfriend isn't too keen on you hanging out with other girls?"
Confused Wyatt mentioned "I mean when I hang out with Laura or Charlotte she's fine, but with you she gets pretty possessive."
Felicia asked "Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I wasn't clawing for Ichika's family jewels."
Wyatt takes a moment to think and replies "So if I set you up with a guy, Kaitlynn might be okay with us hanging out. Great idea Fee!"
Felicia took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of her nose "Exactly how you come to these leaps in logic truly amazes me ."
Wyatt gets up from the chair and responds "Don't worry I know just the guy, I'll set you two up."
Before Felicia could object, Wyatt ran out of the room with great haste and exclaimed "I'll text you the details later."
