celestial seed

by shadowof023

this is based on the story "eyes in seed" with permission from the writer. noah wished to expand the horizons of gunpla battles and let gundam fans try to change the fates of some of their favorite universes. but something goes wrong...now he gets to go from testing his new simulation system to piloting a gundam in true combat...good thing he built it right? re-write in progress

16. world tournament part 3

If you have issues with OP characters and Mary sues READ THIS AUTHORS NOTE OR SKIP ALL BUILD FIGHTERS FIGHTS IN THIS CHAPTER!

I`d like to take a moment and alert people who are like me at times, and hate Mary sues, original characters that are so over powered and usually also self inserts that they can swat the main character or just the hero of the story like he/she was a fly or if it's an original story they are so strong no one can touch them.

This is a warning to such people: in this chapter Noah will be fighting,

Nemesis Astreas character Adam and his 1.5…kind of. The character is based off him but since I'm on a roll with writing and don't wish to wait for him it will just be a character named Adam who uses a reborn 1.5, master build but otherwise a straight build. I apologize if you read this nemesis but I thought it fitting for Adam to fight Noah without any true cross between the stories.

Riccardo Fellini and his fenice reniscita.

Meijin Kawaguchi and his amazing red warrior AND his kampfer amazing, those of you who do not need this warning will enjoy that fight.

Sei Lori and the build strike cosmos. I`ll be going back and redacting the build impulse…sadly I'm not that creative and I feel like I won't be able to do sei justice with a personally made new model for him. Since its abilities are unknown I will modify it but otherwise it's an upgraded star build strike like its appearance at the end of build fighters.

Because the continuation of the plot relies on Noah beating these characters and taking home the trophy…well…he WILL win all 4 fights.

BUT I will be making the fights fair, even, and Noah will be winning by a small margin. If you haven't already watch the star build strike vs the exia dark matter and vs the wing gundam fenice. Unlike their fight against the fenice none will be a draw…well technically against meijin he will have a draw but that is a spoiler...

ANYWAYS but that's the sort of damage they will come down too but like their fight against the dark matter Noah will literally only be wining even with his amount of damage due to his, and by extension his gunpla's drive to win.

So…if you can't even accept fights of that close degree of margin for the OC to beat the main character…I suggest you either wait for my next chapter to keep reading or skip those and read the parts of this where Nina is going to go on a killing spree and the pre-finals challenge matches and the race scene.

I intend for this chapter to be long, somewhat more detailed than usual, and if it's any consolation or helps in any way, remember this. While Noah's building skills are just barely at the minimum of being on par with both Sei and Meijin/Tatsuya and he's just now getting use to a more aggressive fighting style with less tactics and more on the fly, plan 5 moves ahead instead of 500 fighting, but whereas those 4 are veteran gunpla battlers, granted Noah is as well, Noah also has now gone above gunpla battles.

He has fought in the bloody valentine conflict and thanks to the zero system making Nina and the paladin has fought gundam pilot level mobile suits and pilots. He has been in what to his knowledge were life or death battles and come out on top…well…till EX-calibers damage status couldn't keep up with his new opponents.

So he may not be as good at gunpla battle as them…he knows what it means to actually pilot a gundam and that gives him a slight edge in my opinion over them as to how an actual fight would go compared to just duking it out with toys.

ANYWAYS let the final act of the world championship…BEGIN!

World tournament part 3

Noah grinned as he walked his gunpla into the firing range that was the next period in the tournament,

They were still in the portion of the tournament where they were fighting for points.

In the previous Period had been a one on one random weapon match and like now he used his GM commando. His number had been 34 and his opponent ended up having the home field advantage as it was a custom deathscythe and they were fighting in the city. So the young girl who was the pretty pink death scythe hells fighter had quickly cloaked up.

The unfortunate thing was Noah brought his own weapon cases into the match to potentially confuse his opponent and painted each on with her number. So after he found his weapon crate, finding inside a large, square meat cleaver that was basically also the hand grip as it wrapped down…think of it like someone took a cleaver, extended the blade a bit but still square, then bent it in front of the handle with the blade out.

So as his opponent sadly found one of his weapon cases and were having trouble opening it obviously Noah snuck up behind them and jammed the blade into their back before pulling it out and ducking under a wide arc swing from their fist.

Before they could cloak up he snuck under their hyper jammer cloak and proceeded to chop off the cloaks "wings", disabling their cloaking before kicking it back and managing to throw the cleaver strong enough to take their head off and pin it to a nearby wall.

He then opened his case and revealed that it was empty…and his. With the fact he was the only one with weapons currently the girl conceded and Noah received his 2 points.

Now that they were in period three Noah proudly carried his heavy sniper rifle into the range and went to his station. While most of the contestants were using some sniper based model or just using a sniper rifle of some form and therefore were laying down at the line of fire or were kneeling, etc., Noah went to the back of his station and sat against it, hoisting up the folded back heavy rifle.

Now…beam cannons weren't allowed due to the fact you were SUPPOSED TO hit every target individually, not obliterate it all at once in a single shot. But…they never said someone could use a technically non scale heavy sniper rifle that was basically the gunpla equivalent to the anti-tank rifle used in the anime Hellsing when compared to all the other contestants' rifles.

With that in mind Noah flicked the switch to release the rifle and with a loud crash that caused everyone to pause and turn his rifle sprung forward from where it was folded in half and as the butt came to rest against Noah's shoulder, the pre-set bi-pod slammed into the ground and the long rifle was set to go, it's secondary handle folding out for Noah to grab.

*((quick reference as to why I describe this gun as being so powerful for a ballistic "gunpla" weapon, look up the kotobukiya heavy rifle real quick…yeah…it should look like a monster of a sniper rifle for a gunpla to use….))

Noah brought up his scope link and took a breath in…sighted the center target….

And pulled the trigger…

With that the loud bang that was the report of the rifle rang though the stadium, loud enough to sound like someone had fired a 45 caliber revolver right next to the announcer's microphone.

The moment he did the arena chimed that the battle was over. Obviously this brought concern to the other fighters as it seemed like Noah had cheated. But the referees looked at the footage of the match and watched how in one shot Noah took out all five targets, the very reason beam cannons weren't allowed…BUT while it was in pieces there was still plenty left of the original target stand. So while he was docked a point for using such a heavy rifle he still won the event.

The next period of the tournament was some sort of team sport challenge…the closest thing Noah would relate to it was basketball. Either way he used the Gabriel gundam and its sword bits forming a GN particle field that widened the net for them. While technically weapons were once again not allowed…personal weapons anyways, his sword bits were part of his gunpla so thankfully he wasn't disqualified for this or hurt his team.

Period 5 was team 3 on 3 matches and Noah used his "EX-caliber imposter" the custom impulse he built to fight sekai with. These matches proved to not be a challenge for him as his team ended up being well rounded, with him as CQB, they had a seravee with them who acted as defense, and then a legend gunpla from gundam seed destiny who took on the role of their long range fighter.

Finally it came down to the race and Noah was in the fighter's booth watching Sei and the meijin jockey for first place. Meanwhile he was making sure the Gabriel was well tuned and ready for the race. He already knew a lot of eyes were on him…most people wanted to beat his brains in just because of his hyper discharge system, others felt he shouldn't be here, especially after the shooting range incident.

He glanced up and watched as the current race entered its final lap, Sei and Kawaguchi leading the pack by almost a full lap. It was no contest, the Meijin using his kampfer amazing while Sei was still in his build strike cosmos. Noah couldn't help but smile as he thought about how well he'd likely win. Obviously he couldn't just use the quantum leap between gates since his cooldown time wouldn't allow it. But still he had three GN drives and weapons were allowed….

Plus he had his hyper discharge system….

The race would certainly be fun.

The world tournament part 3

Cosmic era 71, April 20th, 24 hours after reconstruction of EX-caliber and 10 hours since Noah's battle with alike.

Nina was sitting at small table in a café just down the street from the armory where it was rumored they held the remains of EX-caliber. She was wearing a simple civilian outfit, sunglasses and was sipping on a vanilla latte.

She had been watching the guard rotations, using a tablet to try and check schedules around the area with zaft academy nearby for potential field trips she could sneak in with. After all it wasn't just EX-caliber in there. It was the future of zaft. Everything from prototype mobile suits to weapons testing to advances in zaft flight suit protection.

As she sipped on her coffee she blinked and looked up when someone tapped on her shoulder. She frowned when she saw two zaft MP's standing behind her. "Yes? What can I help you two with?" she asked as she quickly got out her zaft faith badge…which she somehow kept even though she was no longer a member due to her actions with Noah.

It seemed they knew as they did not salute her. "Please come with us ma'am…"said one of them, a young white haired boy. She sighed and stood up. "What? Is it a crime to have coffee here?" she asked but the MP's were silent. Instead leading her to a car which she got into before they followed and sat on either side of her.

A moment later the car started and the MP driving pulled them away from the curb and turned at the nearby corner, driving them past the facility and making Nina upset.

"Someone going to tell me why I'm clearly being taken somewhere I'm not going to like?" asked Nina as she looked to the two guards.

A young woman sighed from the front seat and turned around. "You have been a bad girl Nina. You had the perfect opportunity to capture one of zafts HVT's, or kill him, and instead you let the natural trash pop you're cherry. Then when his suit is weak and would have been easy prey for you and Heine combined you leave him for Heine…or no you basically left Heine high and dry for Mr. Carson to possibly kill because you were too love struck to kill him. Then after saving him you go and can't deal the finishing blow and Heine ultimately gets the honor of claiming him slayed the beast. Care to defend your actions?" asked an older zaft red MP woman as she looked at Nina. Clearly she herself was a bad girl or else at her age she should be a captain or some higher rank then just a red. But Nina could only smirk when she wondered how many dicks the woman sucked to stay a red at least.

The woman raised an eyebrow. "Find that funny? Well how about I ask in a different manner and we will see how funny it is. You see this?" she asked holding up Nina's file before shifting her hand to hold two folders, the second being her investigation case. First she shook the one containing her military career.

"You are quite the soldier. Good pilot, I mean most of it's redacted at this point, black ink and such, but I know enough to say if you can pass your investigation you may get your paladin back just on good marks. But you see…there's been some…policy changes…"she said before she grabbed the two files and tore them in half, then again…and again, till she could roll down the window and just let them fly out.

"That all went out the window, literally now, but metaphorically…the moment you dropped your pants for that piece of filth. See…naturals are our enemies. And if you can't be trusted to be with one of the biggest enemies zaft has…well had…" "Has…he's still alive." Interrupted Nina. The woman blinked and shook her head, sighing.

"ok…that delusion aside, you could have slept with him, lulled him into a false sense of security and then killed him, crippled him, captured him…ANYTHING but let him live or return to the legged ship!" she shouted and the car finally stopped outside a large building on the outskirts of aprilius one.

"so…there will be no investigation…no trial…no court martial...hell you don't even get a phone call to...oh wait…all your friends and your one lover are dead or you betrayed them so they left you…so…I'll ask again…you care to explain yourself…or are you gonna give me the joy of watching your natural loving ass rot in the brig till you die of old age or kill yourself in depression when you realize your boyfriend is dead as a doorknob? "Asked the woman as she looked Nina in the eyes. Her face read clearly she wanted Nina to say something, anything…nothing would change the facts. No one wanted to admit it and those that did agreed with him. Zala saw coordinators as a new species…and felt such hatred for naturals that he was rumored to be rounding all naturals in the plants up under conspiracy toc commit treason. Guess she fit that group since she fell in love with one.

The woman smiled. "Nothing to say? So I get my dream come true? Get to throw you in here and watch you spiral down into the darkness as you rot for the rest of your life?" asked the woman…

Nina noticed neither MP guard she had had their side arms hidden, covered or well…guarded.

"like hell you will…."she growled before she made the young MP's regret not cuffing her as she socked one in the jaw, knocking her out before grabbing her weapon and before the white haired boy could get his the zaft red had hers out, safety off and Nina was pulling him in front of her so as the driver and red emptied their magazines into "Nina" she had the poor young boy as a meat shield.

When the two guards went to reload, swearing as they realized they had made a big mistake. Nina drew the gun she took from the unconscious girl next to her and put two in each coordinators back before leaning forwards and putting one in the back of their heads.

Knowing the guards inside would be out there any second to check out the gun fire Nina quickly opened the boy's door and shoved him out before getting out, grabbing his side arm and taking off running down the street.

No more waiting…she was storming the complex apparently…

World tournament party 3

"Reality", 3 months, 2 days and 6 hours since EX-calibers destruction

Noah smiled as he looked across to his opponent for the first of the quarter final matches. His name was Adam Winslow and he had a custom 1.5 gundam. This match would be interesting as both his gunplay and Noah's were GN drive powered, both could utilize trans-am, and both had a heavy weapon that if Adam's previous fights had anything to say about rivaled some of the strongest beam cannons in the gundam universe.

Also just like Noah, Adam was a brilliant strategist and master builder. There was no question that this match would be close.

As the arena began dispersing plavsky particles Noah pulled the Gabriel gundam out and looked it over. He had tuned it up this morning and was trying to think of how to start the fight.

Adam was clearly a balanced fighter, infect his fighting style mirrored Kira's almost…well actually mirrored most gundam pilots as he'd fire a few shots to throw the enemy off then charge in with his beam saber.

This fighting style was a good choice for most any fighter, especially if your mobile suit was well rounded. Noah's however CQB oriented with a few guns was. This posed a problem with them both having GN drives but Noah had the advantage of having THREE GN drives but the third was ready. Still…this would be a challenge.

When prompted to he placed his GP-base down and then the Gabriel gundam on it. As he did so the haptic controls came up and he took a deep breath. With this match his final series of challenges to prove he was ready for the cosmic era would begin…

The system announced that the field was number 5, city. That was good. It would make it so neither of them would have the home field advantage. The system then stated that the battle could start and Noah watched his main monitor as he quietly let his gundam launch.

As he exited his launch tunnel he quickly found himself under attack, having to bring his GN buster swords around front to block Adam's opening salvo. The one downside to this field with two high speed machines…it was tiny as fuck! The only way to widen it was to force a field change by blowing a hole in the colony that it usually was set in.

Bringing his swords turned shields back to his side once the beams stopped he brought up both GN sword rifles and found his target cautiously making his way to him, not bothering to hide amongst the buildings or keep firing. It seemed this battle was going to start like a turned based fighting game till one of them decided to use the city as cover.

With that in mind Noah lowered his rifles and took the initiative, diving down amongst the buildings before beginning to zig and zag between the buildings, waiting to either run into the gundam he now knew as the "eyes" gundam or till Adam opened up on him again.

He was made aware of the eyes location when the latter happened, Adam popping up behind Noah and firing at his 00[t] shield. His objective had likely been to destroy his GN sword bits before he could use them in his hyper discharge system.

Figuring someone might target them though Noah had reinforced the shield. So the two shots he took to the back were absorbed by the extra armor though as he spun around he found himself pushed back into a building as Adam charged him and jumped back, bringing his binders into the Avalon cannon mode. The binders quickly began to charge the cannon shot and Noah threw his two GN sword rifles to the side.

He'd spend too many particles to do a GN field AND anything else at full power later so he used his main twin GN drives to boost at Adam and tackle him, forcing him to switch his binders to high speed mode in order to not get pushed too far back. After a moment Noah let him go and the eyes switched to attack mode, firing a series of medium strength beams at Noah who just blocked them with his buster sword.

He had ditched his primary weapons so a he boosted towards the eyes again he hid the fact he was reaching down to grab one of his GN katar's on his legs by taking a swing at Adam which he easily dodged before Noah surprised him by bringing his GN katar up to once again hide him grabbing the second one.

Again Adam easily dodged it and as Noah boosted back he fired off a high powered rifle shot. Noah once again blocked it with his GN buster swords.

As soon as Noah could he boosted to the side, the right, and out of Adams line of sight. What Noah forgot about the 1.5 gundam was that in its attack mode the binders allowed the pilot the bend their beams.

With that in mind Adam fired a low powered "buster shot" and as the large beam left his barrel he turned his binders to the right just in time to curve the shot to follow Noah. He was smiling as to his satisfaction rather than expecting no form of reaction due to Noah blocking with his buster swords.

Instead he was rewarded with an explosion and smoke billowing out of the corner Noah turned. He lifted off the ground and flew forward and around the corner, hoping Noah had made a mistake and lost a significant amount of armor.

Instead he found the broken and smoldering remains of one of the buster swords. This confused him. Why ditch one of his shields when now his model was unbalanced and likely hard to control?

His confusion was cleared up when out of a nearby alley Noah sprung from the shadows, bringing his second GN buster sword crashing down where the eyes had just been. Adam was amazed as he noticed the GN katar's had been connected to form the GN shield 2 and his model was able to wield the buster sword one handed if his machine easily lifting the massive sword was any indication.

Noah meanwhile looked to the eyes as Adam began to take flight and growled. This fight was annoying for him. Mainly in the fact they were rather evenly matched, Noah's only disadvantage being making the Gabriel so CQB oriented.

As Adam turned around and flew away, likely trying to gain distance so he could plan ahead or just gather his thoughts Noah launched from the ground and began to follow. When he was high enough to where he should have seen the eyes he found it was once more gone.

"Damn he's fast…guess this is what I get for never thinking of how I'd handle another GN drive powered machine." Stated Noah. He was glad he had made sure to tune the spots where his camera's and sensors were this morning extra thoroughly. An alarm blared as he found the eyes beneath him finally getting his Avalon cannon shot off…with Noah in perfect position to be in the epi-center of the blast.

Instead he rapidly deployed his sword bits in a defensive form and was save by a large particle barrier being put between him and the blast. Tricky things though…particle barriers. If they met another particle based weapon it all depended on which had the higher frequency, aka the higher particle density as to which one won. To Noah's dismay…his seemed to be weaker as he only got an extra second to dodge to the right once again before his bits were overwhelmed and vaporized.

While that one second allowed him to dodge the main blast he still ended up having his GN shield 2 and left arm caught in the blast from the elbow down. He grit his teeth as he quickly dropped his buster sword, reached back and whipped out his right GN buster sword 2. Quickly he aimed down where the eyes was still recovering from firing such a large blast and like when someone exited Trans-am it was not able to move and react as quickly. Taking advantage of that he closed the ports on his third GN drive and didn't bother waiting for a lock on. He activated the hyper discharge system and within an instant angry crimson red burst forth from his rifle as he tried to end this fight here and now.

Noah growled as his beam hit where the eyes was but it moved at the last second, and like Noah it's left side got caught in the blast but more of him was caught, taking his left arm off completely, shoulder and all but it also caught the left binder as he had entered flight mode but the binders had been turned to the right so he could move faster. Due to this the tail end of the binder got caught and evaporated.

Since the end had the rifle in it Noah watched as it sparked and exploded. He replaced his GN buster sword two on his back and was ready to go down and finish the eyes off as he drew his GN long sword kai.

Instead sadly he not only found the colony go dark and a field change announcement come up he also found himself blocking the eyes beam saber as it had ditched it's rifle and seemed intent on overpowering Noah, slowly pushing him back as it entered trans-am.

The beauty of his trinity drive was that when it came to Noah's hyper discharge and trans-am, especially trans-am, the three GN drives were not connected. While trans-am could be initiated by either the single GN drive or by the twin drive system, it did not affect the other unless Noah needed to move and FAST in which case he could run trans-am with all three drives though he ran the risk at that point of overloading his gundam with the G's he'd be pulling, even his reinforced joints unable to stand the pressure after a short time.

So as the eyes began to glow pink and would back off, rush in for a strong strike then attack with a flurry of strikes before backing off again Noah used his twin drive system to enter trans am and lead Adam on a chase through the streets of the colony as he moved away from the break in its wall to keep them from being pulled out into space. Finally when they were far enough they weren't being pulled towards it Noah landed and turned around, firing a few shots from the GN long sword kais beam rifle mode.

This caused Adam to bring up his arm to block them and as he did so Noah took a page out of Nina and Heine's book and threw his long sword at the eyes. Adam lowered his arm soon enough though that in trans-am he easily rolled onto his side to dodge the blade.

With that dodged Noah opened up with the GN Vulcan in his wrist till Adam was on top of him, giving him just enough time to draw his GN short sword kai. After that he began to use heavy downward strikes and every time Noah boosted back he'd just follow him, at one point feinting an upward slash strike to bring his beam saber up to impale the Gabriel gundams head.

Going off his last visual of the eyes Noah brought his GN short sword kai up in a diagonal slash and gave the eyes a deep gash in its chest before bringing his leg up to kick him back. After that he returned the favor by taking the eye's head off as he boosted towards him in a blind power stab attack.

Adam responded by spinning his beam saber in his hand and jamming it into Noah's 00[t] shield. Noah groaned as he was forced into the ground with this as well but it also gave Noah a reason to worry he might lose. Quickly disengaging the shield he used to last of his trans-am to roll over fast enough to throw the compromised GN drive off his back then rolled the other way to avoid another attack from Adam.

At this point it was a fast paced slug out, both of them exiting trans-am, unable to use their main camera, and resorting to blocking and parrying each other's swords occasionally getting an occasional light scratch in.

"It's time to end this…" said Noah and once more he kicked Adam's eyes gundam back before throwing the GN short sword kai at him. This time it hit its mark, digging into Adam's right shoulder and causing his right arm to go limp.

Believing him defenseless Noah charged the eyes with his last weapon within reach of his remaining and mangled arm, the GN buster sword 2. He charged him and took a sideways slash at him. This time he severed the right arm, but had forgotten the 1.5 gundams second binder.

Adam began to climb away from Noah but Noah raised his GN buster sword 2 and right as the eyes revealed its modified binder, raising up over the busted shoulder and firing back at Noah, the blonde gundam pilot fired a sniper shot at the eyes, nailing it in the back and managing to catch the GN drive.

At the same time Adam's last shot hit a similar target and Noah found the Gabriel gundam on its knees as it braced itself after its left GN drive exploded in its housing, taking the rest of the left arm and leaving the model with less than a quarter of the power output needed to work.

Luckily for Adam the eyes still had a little bit of power left in its GN condenser in its torso so while it couldn't really move the eyes'…eyes flickered but the model was still active.

Finally the strain was too much and the Gabriel fell flat on its face, shutting down at literally the exact same moment the eyes did. For some reason the arena did not call a draw or battle ended though.

Noah knew exactly why. Just like the eye's gunpla had GN particles left in the torso condenser. As he watched his custom particle gauge slowly empty he continued to move the arm rakes. "Come on damn you…move…get up…this can't be the end…I need to go back…"he shouted at his screen. With that the Gabriel's eyes flickered and as Noah gripped his control orbs the left hand twitched before slowly clenching into a fist.

With that the Gabriel slowly began to lift itself, seemingly wanting to deny fate the joy of ending its career before it really even began. With that the gunpla rose to its knees and sat up, defiantly waiting for an unseen, gunpla god to decide if it got to live or not.

Finally the battle system called the match, declaring Noah the winner and the plavsky particles began to fade away.

Noah could hear the entire crowd cheering as he looked at the two destroyed gunpla. While Adam was clearly an excellent builder and an amazing fighter, he was no Meijin or sei.

As he looked to his demolished Gabriel gundam, still in its position of sitting on its knees, it's right arm just barely propping it up.

He watched Adam collect the eyes and look to Noah, smiling as he nodded, a silent "good fight" signal before walking away.

Noah finally moved around the arena and collected the remains of the Gabriel gundam. He was still trying to decide how to handle the rest of the tournament. If he could barely beat Adam and his eyes gundam, who was to say the Gabriel was up to par with the wing gundam fenice reniscita? Or the meijin's amazing red warrior?

Then there was the build strike cosmos…he felt I would be far more of a challenge then any of the others.

With that thought Noah left the arena, even the building in general. Gabriel was too complicated to need just a night to fix. So his first stop was a hobby shop for replacement parts, then to a certain girl waiting in his complimentary room at the hotel meant for the fighters. If he hoped to have any chance of fixing this gunpla without taking an entire week he'd need her help. After all he didn't have adoption paperwork waiting for him as well truly out of the kindness of his heart.

World tournament part 3

Cosmic era 71, April 20th, 2 hours since Nina became labeled a traitor

Nina was panting as she hid inside a small lab room. She was sitting behind a desk and sweating like crazy. Sirens blared around her as the research facility went into lockdown due to her having now killed a total of 3 guards and 2 techs trying to play hero.

She had searched every hangar so far and could not seem to find EX-caliber. She had three of them left and all three were now heavily guarded.

Glancing down to check what her combat capabilities were like she ejected the magazine from her gun and found it seemed light on ammunition. 5 rounds in the assault rifle she had picked up at best. And the side arm she had still from the poor girl who tried to help capture her had one full magazine left.

She growled and glanced over the desk, hearing more guards run down the hall to reinforce the mass already there. Deciding it was time to bite the bullet and either go down fighting she mounted the desk and before the guards could react she raised the rifle to her shoulder and accurately put a round in the back of the three soldier's heads. She tossed the rifle down and pulled out the sidearm, running down to the hall to turn into the zero G entrance to the hangar.

Once inside she quickly pushed off the right wall to "jump" to the left before pushing forward off the wall to zigzag into cover behind the open doors to the hangar all while miraculously dodging every shot fired at her

(If you want to, start playing nightcore "this little girl" like I am at the moment. And try to match the end of this to the chorus at the end, the shell dropping effect in the song just makes this ending pop to me.)

Just past the door was a squad of zaft red MP's all with their gun's trained on the door. Glancing around the corner she quickly shot her head back behind the doorway as a shot pinged off the wall.

Behind the firing squad stood a zaft commander, a faith badge on his chest.

"NINA YONG!" he shouted and she couldn't help but wince as she somehow recognized the voice. Drawing on her foggy and faint memories she remembered it belonging to at the time a simple mark Bellerose, zaft red, decorated vet even early in the war.

Now a commander it seemed he was even a member of faith.

"Behind me stands your natural lovers mobile suit! Do you honestly plan to steal it from us? After all the damage it did to your kinsmen, all it did to your sweet paladin…you still would see it used against us?" he shouted and Nina growled.

"It may have done all the damage and I may be betraying my country…but god damn it uncle mark! Tell me you can't see zala's blind hatred for naturals!? Tell me you can't see just what this war is going to boil down to!" she shouted back as she tried to think about how to handle all the guards without having to kill the man she knew as uncle apparently. She was also just glad this was the correct hangar. But if EX-caliber was in here….what were in the other 2 hangars they were guarding so tightly?

"So what? Your claiming zala will turn this into a genocide campaign?!" he shouted as he signaled for all his men to reload. It was clear Nina wouldn't stand down but still she seemed to want to talk.

"Yes! And the naturals will do the same if their precious blue cosmos has anything to say about it!" replied Nina.

"So you`d have us lay down and accept our deaths? With this machine we can jump mobile suit technology leaps and bounds ahead of modern day and even more so compared to anything the naturals can produce, even that stupid gat series!"

"Yes but I'm afraid I can't let you use Noah's machine for such purposes!"

"And why is that? Because you slept with him suddenly you think your some member of celestial being? That you can take his machine, go take over what? His ties to the Amalfi boy? And then what will you do?" he asked, curious now as to her motives behind clearly trying to take EX-caliber.

"I don't intend to use it in a fight at all! I`d take it to earth, hide it in the deepest darkest place possible, hell if it means neither zaft nor the earth alliance gets their hands on it…" she said, closing her eyes as a tear ran down her cheek.

"I'll take it to the Mariana's trench…and go as deep as I have too before the pressure crushes it…with me inside. I`d rather die than live to see my loves hard work turned into a genocidal war machine…" she said loudly. Remembering her fight with Noah, remembering how she felt with each part she broke. Somewhere deep down even then she remembered it was supposed to be just a plastic model, meaning with each part she broke he'd have to painstakingly fix by hand eventually.

She heard her uncle laugh and closed her eyes tightly, growling as she heard his reply.

"So you simply wish to deny such a powerful asset from either side of this war. And on top of that this has all been a suicide mission from the start. Well if you're done with life then just step out and I'd be happy to end it for you." He called out with a laugh.

With that Nina opened her eyes, and as in Noah's living room the screens turned on and shined a bright gold, her eyes shined gold as well. She ejected the magazine and checked it.

Still full, no deformities, it was good.

With that she pushed it back inside till I locked in place. She pulled the slide back…and everything seemed to slow around her.

She turned the corner and brought the pistol up, single handed, even as the MP's opened fire she managed to keep from taking a single bullet.

Finally after a couple steps she pulled the trigger once…then again…and again till she had managed to put a round in every single zaft soldiers head except her uncles.

No...As he scrambled to reload his own pistol Nina mentally checked and realized she still had two rounds left.

Lowering her aim she fired one shot into his leg and watched him tumble to the ground. Walking up beside him he could only watch as EX-caliber, as if reacting to Nina's presence, opened its cockpit.

But before Nina got in she turned to him and he found himself looking down the barrel of her gun.

"I…Nina yong…here-by resign from zaft and faith….let zala know I said that when he finds you in hell." she stated before mark's world went black.

Meanwhile Nina's eyes stopped glowing and everything came back to normal speed for her. She almost jumped when she heard the clanging of the shell casing from her last round hitting the railing.

She looked around and then at herself, amazed she survived what likely had been walking straight into her own firing squad.

She then turned and saw EX-calibers cockpit open and looked up as she heard the hangar doors begin to open.

She turned back to the open cockpit and with as deep breath stepped inside, closed the door and began to power up the machine.

"Nina yong…EX-caliber…LAUNCHING!" she shouted before pushing her new accelerator to its max, almost fainting just at hearing the hum of the GN drive spinning up, her brain trying to get over the fact she was in EX-caliber.

After a few seconds of passing through multiple blast doors and hangar doors that made up the security of the launch site she met open space.

She put some distance between herself and the plants before stopping to go over the console. She frowned. While EX-calibers arsenal WAS small and easily mapped to a small console she thought they`d be a bit more grandiose about the cockpit. This was literally a GINN cockpit that was reconfigured to likely be mapped to EX-calibers capabilities.

As she looked through the new OS to figure it all out and make some changes she heard an alarm begin to blare. She forgot about the home defense fleet. They were light at the moment due to operation spitbreak but still someone would have spotted her sooner or later.

Looking up she saw that a pair of ginns were hauling ass to her position. So with that she got out of the OS and gripped the controls. Timing it perfectly so that as she pushed the acceleration pedal down and her throttle to max she also pressed a few buttons on the right control stick. This brought the replacement for EX-calibers GN blade out and as a ring of GN particles formed behind the drive she boosted forward in a burst of speed.

A quick twirl as she passed between the GINN's and she flew away from two bisected mobile suits, soon exploding behind her as she curved her path towards earth. She hoped this thing could handle re-entry…otherwise…well…she just didn't want to think about that. Instead she focused on figuring out where she could hide this machine till after the war…after she found Noah. He'd know how to dispose of it.

World tournament part 3

"Reality" 4 hours after Noah's fight with the "eye's"

Noah sighed as he walked into his hotel room. In truth he barely spent any time here, only sleeping and occasionally eating in here. He closed the door behind him with his foot as in his arms were two bags of various models, supplies and tools. Then on his arms were two bags of groceries.

As he walked inside and set things down on HIS bed he turned around to see Alice sitting at the building station that was in the room. She was deep in concentration while working on tuning her exia crossbone. Explains the lack of a hello or where is the food or just help getting his supplies inside.

She was in his hotel room due to the fact he was supposed to be adopting her. So she was staying with him as expected while also using it to hide from the salvager group till he could pay them off. But the tournament had him too busy

Even as Noah walked over and looked over her shoulder she never broke concentration as she used one of his exacto knives like he taught her already to sharpen her exia's GN short sword kai. He decided to see how she'd react…if...

He cleared his throat and had to jump back as the exacto knife flew up in the air and he heard a thud. Before even looking to him, Alice looked up with him to find the sharp exacto blade had stuck to the ceiling. Alice then turned to him and blushed.

"Sorry…I um…I got really deep into It." she said and Noah nodded. "I understand." He said, looking past her gundam to find an envelope with a local adoption lawyers name on it. "So the papers arrived…guess it really is gonna happen…" thought Noah. The lawyer had said with the fact Alice was technically a run away and he had to go through certain channels to even try and get custody paperwork going for the teen.

He put his hand on her shoulder and smiled. "It's fine. I understand. Besides…"he said, getting the Gabriel gundam out of his gunpla case and setting the remains of the model down. "I need your help. And it's gonna take everything you already know, plus what I taught you and what I'm going to teach you." he stated as the girls eyes went wide.

Suddenly Alice was glad she hadn't gotten into the world tournament. Whatever did this to Noah…even with his experience in actual gundam fights…she knew she wouldn't have lasted this long. But he needed her help?

It was then she noticed the bags from the hobby shop. But why go there? While they were required to give a list of any possible required parts or models or equipment the builders might need to repair their gunpla, the gunpla fighter oriented hotel had small lift elevators in the wall at the work desk and an intercom. This would allow fighters to use the intercom to coordinate with the workshop on the ground floor. Anything on the list they gave when they checked in they could call for free of charge and it would be sent up. Tools, models, styrene sheets, anything on that list.

Anything else though was dirt cheap. Usually it was about a dollar a model and this was only because they made a list of all the items given in these fashions, submitted it to the corporation that ran the tournament and were usually reimbursed at the end of the tournament.

This kept fighters stocked and ready to fight and the tournament exciting due to not having fighters with half repaired models due to money constraints.

Either way she watched Noah walk over, grab a large box from one of the paper bags full of models and bring it over. He gently moved her exia out of the way and set it in front of her.

"Your job is to build this model….3 times." he said, pointing to the same bag. "Build it to the best of your abilities. Don't try to copy Gabriel. I`ll bring it to that level. But if you can even make it to your exia's standard that will be helpful. You have 48 hours. "He said before going over to one of his travel bags and opening it, shifting through it till he brought out another gunpla case. This one was red, while Gabriel's was a nice leather. This new one also had the symbol for zaft on it.

As she began to open the model and get set up with the gunpla building equivalent to "mise en place" she glanced to her new father figure and was surprised to see him pull out another masterwork. This one looked like it was based on the buster.

From what she could see it was covered in missiles, and while not familiar with the series she was sure a lot of the parts that made it so custom came from an armor pack that went on something called a zoid.

As she watched him go through what was likely a pre-tune up checklist she watched him open missile ports in the skirt armor, the KNEE armor…hell the new missile launchers on the shoulders no longer had their orange covers. Instead each shoulder sported 2 large missiles…then two more on the sides near the back though those two were bigger. In terms of munitions she guessed when also compared to the gundam they would be the equivalent to a cruise missile. She was about to start laughing at how absurd it was to have this much firepower at his fingertips when he also pulled out a sliding missile pod that was aimed up but had maybe 10 missile caps meaning 10 more missiles. Finally he went back to the front and flipped down what she had thought was its targeting system…no here's four more missiles on each shoulder.

As expected the gundam likely put out a lot of heat. She noticed he had addled long tubes to the clavicle armor that looked too have two large holes at the end. She figured it was a venting system as a machine with that much firepower likely accumulated a lot of heat. It's head was also modified too include four head Vulcans…yes because something with that many missiles needed head Vulcans to intercept more missiles.

There was so much more to this custom model then she figured she even knew. The heavy cannons mounted on its fore arms were enough to warrant caution to her. But it seemed her new father liked to go all out if he was going to go one way or another. The Gabriel gundam was a full on CQB machine while this custom buster looked like it was a…well…what to call it? A walking armory? A walking arsenal? Just…suffice to say the fact he kept it a similar paint scheme was the most normal part about it. That thing could give the virtue or heavyarms a run for their money anytime.

Once he had done his check she watched him carefully take the model's body apart, then breaking it down further till he practically had the model back to where he should need instructions. Once he had it broken down that far he put his hands together oddly in almost a small prayer. Once that was done he picked up a piece and soon was underway in an effort to likely tune the gundam for his fight the next day.

She had to admire the man's dedication to his gunpla and to fighting. To now have the chance to learn from him…to work on his models apparently…it was going to be amazing. With that in mind she dug into the kit she had been assigned and began building. She had 48 hours to build three of them…but would that give Noah enough time to customize them to fit the Gabriel gundam for the semi-finals?

World tournament part 3

Cosmic era 71, JOSH-A base, date and time unknown

Dearka sighed as he rolled onto his side. He was thinking of that natural girl, miriallia was what he recalled her being called. He had been trying to keep his distance by being rude and making smart remarks…but apparently one cruel joke he made hadn't been a joke.

The way it sounded, after he got shot down the girl's boyfriend was in the fighter that cut his busters rifle barrel in half and had gone off to try to help the strike against athrun. He moved in at the wrong moment and athrun picked him off somehow.

"How was I supposed to know?" he muttered sorrowfully as he closed his eyes.

He was pulled from his self-pity party by a wrapping of someone's knuckles on his cell bars. He turned and looked and groaned. It was Nicol.

"Here to yell at me more about how you don't know me anymore or you gonna turn into a missionary and try to recruit me?" he asked as with a grunt he sat up in his bunk and he looked into Nicols eyes.

Nicol smirked. "A bit of both. The Dearka I knew looks like he's back and laying in this cell." He stated as he sipped on a mug of coffee. Oh what Dearka wouldn't give for a cup right now…or a good steak…just SOMETHING that wasn't military rations which it looked to him like Nicol wasn't exactly drinking the ships brew.

"What's that supposed to mean? How am I any different then I was back in the med bay?" he asked as he looked away from Nicol.

"You were channeling yzak just without the likely violence and swearing he'd involve. To put it more plainly…you were being a dick." stated Nicol as he took another sip of his coffee.

Being called a dick made Dearka glare at his former teammate. "Oh yeah? And so what when you first showed up you were probably kissing their ass just to get out of your cell huh? Probably made every plea imaginable, told them all about the homelands defenses just to be able to join celestial being didn't you?" he exclaimed as he slowly got off his bunk and took a step towards the bars.

Nicol shook his head. "Nope…Noah stated they had already been planning to recruit me. So when he shared a cell next to mine he offered me the job. When he got out he bargained with the captain to let me pilot the blitz. Worst part of the deal was I had to fight you guys. Otherwise the only deal I had to make was to protect this ship." he said. That made Dearka grab the bars angrily. "You what!? You mean you had a chance to sink this ship and didn't take it!? You really are a traitor!" he shouted and Nicol took a step back to stay out of his potential reach.

Nicol shook his head. "I realized I had that option multiple times. The problem is…they treated me well. I mean yeah at first all I got was glares and was poked and prodded by every guard that escorted me anywhere trying to get me to react so they could have cause to attack me…but then I shot down a GiNN that was about to sink them and suddenly they saw me in a whole new light. It`s taken some time but I'm a fully integrated part of this crew. So…back to my original reason for coming down to see you. Yes…I was hoping to recruit you. My only problem is Noah kept me also from sinking the ship because he swore that unless I could prove I didn't sink it or if I straight up sunk it myself…he'd kill me. Now come on Dearka…tell me you wouldn't do what a man who thought he was strong enough to challenge the world when he threatens to kill you if you do or don't do some insanely simple task? "He asked.

Dearka blinked. So…that was how it was? Nicol hadn't stayed…at least at first on his own accord. He stayed under duress. Then he did what he agreed to do and the naturals ended up accepting him. Would that happen with him? Would that maybe make things better between him and the brunette who he made that cruel joke about?

Internally he shook his head. Who cared if she liked him? He was their prisoner. And even worse he was being offered the same offer as Nicol to betray his homeland and live.

"So…what if I join you and decide I wanna say fuck it and sink the ship?" he asked as he walked back to his bed and plopped down on it, crossing his arms.

Nicol shrugged. "I'm not Noah, but the buster is pretty well…well busted and the blitz is in even worse condition. So if you do…you're going down with the ship. But even if you waited till the buster or blitz was working. We are now deep in the Alaska bases air defenses. You wouldn't get far before either your battery ran out or you sank to your death or till you got shot down. "Said Nicol as he sipped his coffee again.

"So while I'm not Noah I guess the same offer goes. Join me, I'll get you in my custody, and we can take the buster and blitz and go back to orb…"

"Why orb?" asked Dearka, confused why the neutral nation would give them asylum in mobile suits.

"Because the head of morgenroete and Noah seemed to hit it off and I'm sure the princess would be happy to accept celestial being into their defense forces. We hide out there till we can upgrade the blitz and buster or have them make us a small ship or something. I don't know I'll think of it later, but we go on and perform the armed interventions Noah wanted to do." Said Nicol as he laid out his current plan.

Dearka raised an eyebrow. "Really? Just the two of us?" he asked

"And flay…she'd need to learn to pilot the ship but I think we could recruit some people in orb too…."he said. He was trying to be optimistic about this. After all the meeting he was "invited too" in a couple hours with the earth alliance brass could end with his death, his capture. After all again he wasn't Noah Carson and he was deep in the lion's den for anti-coordinator sentiment. Hell he was being given armed guards from captain Ramius, whether it was actually her idea or not as long as he wasn't escorted in cuffs or not would determine how supportive she may be.

Dearka meanwhile scoffed at his plan. "So in other words join you and pray the earth alliance lets you take me AND take the blitz and buster and leave here? What's to say they may decide to have a "training exercise the moment we go to leave and bam? They shoot us down by "accident"?" he asked as he fell back on the bed and closed his eyes. "If Noah Carson were here…I'd believe in this plan of yours. That guy had a big brass pair and openly stated both the earth alliance and zaft were his enemies. Plus his mobile suit could handle anything they threw at him. I mean I'm not saying I would be super loyal right away…but if it means not having to worry about rotting in some natural POW camp I'd be all for joining." Stated the tan coordinator as he opened his eyes.

"But the fact of the matter is you're not, and in the blitz's condition I'm not gonna put my chips down on you having the bargaining power to get me out of here. So yeah…I'll pass." he said before waving away Nicol.

The green haired coordinator sighed. "Fine…whatever you say Dearka. I do hope that they don't take you off the ship but then again we have been sequestered onboard for more than a week and they haven't taken you for questioning so who knows. It does give me a bad feeling but I'm not sure what it could be." He stated before finally leaving the brig.

World tournament part 3

"Reality", world tournament quarter semifinals match, fenice reniscita vs buster panzer

Noah looked across the arena at Riccardo Fellini. He had beaten this man before…but it was with EX-caliber and on top of that it was by a thin margin and trans-am. This time…out of all of that…all he had was trans-am and the fact the GN drive would remove his movement penalty due to weight.

As he set the buster panzer down he watched Fellini set down his fenice reniscita as the cockpits formed. His was a walking powder-keg, one of the drawbacks to the fact the buster panzer was SO SPECIALIZED as an artillery and support unit. All it would take was a grazing blast from his buster rifle or even his secondary rifle and the buster panzer would light up like a Christmas tree.

The map loaded and he launched. It was a space map but a unique one. It was new, the center of the map held the remains of junius seven. It was there Noah and Fellini set their gunpla down across from each other on a long strip of road between ruined buildings.

"Where is that fancy gunpla you used in the survival match and against that eye's gundam?" asked Fellini as they both lowered their weapons.

"The Gabriel is very intricate in its construction. It`ll take less than a single night for me to repair it. Thankfully I had this buster panzer available." Replied Noah as he watched the reniscita look over his walking armory.

Fellini chuckled. "I see. I was hoping to see if I could beat it. After all that thing….I am curious how you transported that beam. Perhaps if I beat you here you will tell me?" he asked as he raised his shield and buster rifle, Noah raising his two hybrid cannons from the panzer armor set of a liger zero from the series zoids which were mounted on the busters forearms.

Seeing that Noah had his two cannons Fellini chuckled again and split his rifle so that he held the smaller rifle and the buster rifle at his waist. "You really wish to fight? All it will take is hitting one of those missile pods and your gunpla will go up in flames." He stated.

Noah smiled. "you really think I didn't think of that?" he asked as he decided to fire the opening shots, two large green beams leaving the barrels of the hybrid cannons before the front panel of his knee joints opened to reveal a pair of micro missile units. 12 small missiles shot out before they closed, the missiles spiraling and going everywhere.

Fellini rose his shield to block the beams which were surprisingly strong as they pushed him back slightly. When he lowered his shield he saw the missiles and quickly boosted up. Once he felt he was high enough and that they weren't homing he looked down to see the missiles had not exploded. Instead the street was filled with a thick heavy smoke, laced with glittering particles.

"Ah an anti-beam smoke screen. But this means you can't fire your cannons either." Called out Fellini as he began to fire into the smoke with his Vulcans in short bursts but got nothing. As the smoke cleared he saw that Noah was gone and cursed himself for getting caught up in the thought the smoke was a trap.

He was made aware of Noah's position when his cockpit began to blare alarms that he had missiles locked onto him. Spinning around he found 4 large missiles coming his way. They had to be the gunpla equivalent to cruise missiles! Deciding his Vulcans would not be enough he transformed and flew away, leading the missiles after him. Finally he did a barrel roll and transformed back, bringing his buster rifle and charging it to a low powered shot. He watched two missiles try to do his roll and blow up on each other but the other 2 missiles were still coming. He fired the low powered shot and vaporized the missiles.

He then began searching for Noah, now seeing his tactic. He may not have been cloaked but his GN particles made it hard for his system to find him even this high above the ruins. Once more he was alerted to the fact he had missiles coming at him. This time he decided to dive into the ruins, spinning around as he saw half the 24 small missiles following him hit the various ruined buildings but that still left 12 following him. He quickly shot them down with a barrage of rounds from his Vulcans and as he rounded a corner he had to spin around and block another pair of large beams.

This time he was ready, recombining his two rifles before raising them to fire a full charge buster shot at Noah who had maneuvered behind him. He hoped that would end the fight as when he saw it was a space map he had hoped to fight the Gabriel gundam at its best. Fighting in these ruins with the buster panzer…well suffice to say he was not a fan of this cat and mouse.

Sadly when the blast faded away he found he had cleared plenty of ruins…but Noah was nowhere to be seen.

He growled and began looking around only to groan as the reniscita was subjected to a barrage of 6 medium sized missiles from above with only a few seconds worth of warning.

One good thing about his reniscita having a wing gundam for its base model…ballistic weapons didn't exactly do too much to it.

So as the smoke cleared he raised his rifle up and fired another shot as well as his head Vulcans….at nothingness.

The buster panzer was faster than he thought. He looked around and spun around to block another pair of beams. Those…were getting on his nerves. So with that he detached his smaller rifle into his left hand again and as Noah began to booster away fired, managing to catch both cannons with the small pink beam, forcing Noah to detach them and let them explode.

Finally he had hit the damn thing. He boosted forward, capitalizing on the loss of Noah's guns. As he rounded the corner Noah had escaped around he found himself face to face with Noah again, this time with both the busters' standard weapons out at his waist and ready to fire

He decided to try and again end the fight here and now and fired both his smaller rifle and buster rifle. As he did so Noah once again opened his knee panels and fired off an anti-beam smoke screen, causing the buster rifles beam to dissipate faster and allowing him to dodge it but in the process he also managed to collide with the small pink beam that managed to get past the growing smoke screen.

"got ya!" he cried out and thought it was the end but instead as an explosion rocked Noah's area he was met with an unexpected hail of bullets before watching Noah come bursting out of the smoke, missing one of its legs. It seemed Noah was fast enough to disengage his leg before it could chain react. Still this put him at a disadvantage on the ground and Fellini dropped both his buster rifle and beam rifle, detaching the beam saber potion and blocking Noah's shoulder bash on his shield before pushing him back and stabbing at the same shoulder, trying to once e more set of a chain reaction through all the missile pods.

Utilizing the GN drive Noah boosted just out of the path of the beam saber and quickly righted himself. It seemed he knew Fellini aimed to finish this fight and felt the same.

Hovering the buster panzer as it could no longer stand, he quickly combined the busters weapons to form it's hyper beam sniper rifle and fired, Fellini easily side stepping the shot before boosting into another stab at the panzer who just drifted back out of reach.

He stabbed at him again and again, each time missing. Finally he opened up with his Vulcans and he found his met with Noah's…Noah's head CIWs AND new triple barrel mini Vulcans at the waist which Fellini let the reniscita take as he tried to get close again.

Instead Noah backed away in a strong boost before the buster began to glow red. "Shit…it has trans-am?!" he exclaimed as he watched the buster rocket back and around a corner. Naturally Fellini followed only to see Noah with all his remaining missile ports open.

The moment he saw that Fellini switched his acceleration and went into a heavy climb only to hear his alarms blare of incoming missiles. Once again thanking that this was a space map he tried to outpace the missiles and hoped they`d eventually go off on their own.

Instead he watched as Noah rose above him and position himself in front of the fenice reniscita. He was far enough he could easily get a shot off that Fellini would only need to block or dodge but either way he still had the missiles to deal with and one misstep and he'd get caught in the barrage.

He knew Noah had won at this point and smiled. He had outmaneuvered him masterfully and managed to perform a pincer maneuver with his own missiles.

With that thought Noah fired and in an instant a beam from his hyper impulse sniper rifle pierced the cockpit of the reniscita just before a barrage of varying sized missiles hit it in the back.

Suffice to say before the smoke could even settle the match was called and the crowd was cheering. He smiled and watched Noah walk around and hold his hand out which Fellini took. "Good fight my friend. Maybe next time I can try and beat your Gabriel gundam? "he asked and Noah nodded.

"sure…I'm sorry about that…In all honesty I figured you'd find a way to dodge it and come after me." he said, both of them looking to the reniscita which was in shambles due to all the missiles that hit it.

Fellini shrugged. "That's the fun of gunpla battles. You never know what will happen…and you never stop getting better." he said as he scooped up the remains of his gunpla and left, Noah doing the same. Now he had to go finish repairs on the Gabriel.

World tournament part 3

Cosmic era 71, JOSH-A base, date and time unknown

The archangel had just arrived at the main headquarters for the earth alliance, an unexpected turn of events after Heliopolis and their battle in orbit. For this admiralty board…it was also something they were not looking forward to dealing with.

"The archangel. I never thought it'd make it. "Stated one admiral as he looked over the reports they all had copies of from the ships various exploits. The one thing they all were both glad of and upset about was the destruction of EX-caliber. This deep into their base it would be a minor threat…without its pilot.

They could easily have managed to detain Noah, keep him from his mobile suit, offload it, the strike if it had survived, and the blitz and the buster, get the combat data on the gat series and tear apart EX-caliber to learn how it worked. If they had gotten that they would have been put leagues ahead of zaft and those damned coordinators. It would have been Noah's worst nightmare.

"Do you think halberton's force of will protected it?" jested one admiral but for Admiral Sutherland, the leader of this board, this was not a laughing matter. After all…he was the one who would have to inform lord azreal of the destruction and enemy capture of EX-caliber and its remains. The blonde racist would not be pleased.

"No…if that were the case this would be a simple matter. No…this young coordinator, Kira yamato was the one who protected it. "Said Sutherland, the word coordinator laced with venom and disgust. "Yes him and this "Noah Carson", a natural with an unknown mobile suit were the reason she made it all the way here." He stated as he glared at the photos of the two pilots.

"Captain Sutherland don't say it like that. Fortunately with the destruction of the strike and EX-caliber AND the strikes pilot being listed as M.I.A. can be considered a rather…fortunate accident for us." Said the admiral to his left.

"Yes…the gat series will be a strong asset for us and we will get plenty of use out of it in the future. Therefore the last thing we need people knowing is that a coordinator was the only one capable of piloting it….and a teenager at that." He said, again that word came out like he wanted to choke on it or choke the person he was referring too.

"Your right about that." Said another admiral. "It just seems like a blatant sign of our own inferiority." Said another.

"Yes and this…EX-caliber. It makes our own mobile suits look even more inferior. We got lucky if the young man's story is true and that the three other machines they were preparing were destroyed with Heliopolis." Stated Sutherland.

"In regards to that we have sent recon teams to the remains of that colony. We found no signs of that technology or any other possible structures that could have housed them. If they were there then they were the only part of the colony not to simply break apart, they had to have been destroyed likely through explosives placed as a self-destruct counter-measure."

Sutherland nodded. "yes…and the fact it was able to not only disable and capture the blitz, but forced zaft to pull out prototypes which the gat series likely couldn't hold a candle too just yet just means it's destruction is even more of a boon to us than we originally estimated." said Sutherland as he brought up data on the three new gat series prototypes.

"It would have been better if we could have gathered its remains, or even captured the suit itself. That technology...according to the reports that drive on its back powered its armor, propulsion, even provided power to its weapons." Said one admiral who clearly won the captain obvious award.

"Yes and what does that have to do with its capture?" asked Sutherland.

"If we had been able to re-create or even take that drive and put it into even one of our new gat line up it would have given it endless power….it likely would have rivaled the potential of a nuclear powered mobile suit. Imagine that put on our new calamity model…the amount of fire power it would have without the need to worry about battery life…"said the admiral, his words dripping with the desire to see such firepower turned on their enemies.

"And the applications to the raider…that "trans-am" ability…imagine the speed it would have. No coordinator would be able to match it." Stated an admiral who wore quite the mischievous grin.

"Yes yes but the fact is we do not possess it and as such we should not dwell on what could have been." Stated Sutherland as he stopped on the calamity, pondering what they could have done with that technology and how the new biological CPU's would handle it.

"What have you told lord azreal? After all with all this talk of EX-caliber we have already forgotten we have taken what we know of the gat series and already put it in our new line, making the blitz and buster obsolete and this time with them in our hands not zafts."

Sutherland grinned. "I have told him we will take the necessary precautions to handle this. But the fact is he does not yet know we were unable to recover the remains of EX-caliber…he will likely be upset but I will handle It." stated Sutherland as he tapped his papers on the desk to get them in order.

"it all boils down to this all being a unfortunate accident…just like what will happen here….all this for the preservation of our blue and pure world." He stated before they quietly ended the meeting and went back to their daily duties.

World tournament part 3

It had taken most of the night, and he barely made it in time to the arena, but as Noah panted he watched tatsuya yuuki aka meijin Kawaguchi smile as they were both surrounded by the haptic display of the gunpla battle arena. Clearly the meijin knew why Noah was late.

The reason was the brand new, fully finished and with spare parts waiting in his room, Gabriel gundam. When Noah prompted set his GP base down and then the gunpla. Finally he caught his breath and closed his eyes while the system, loaded in the map.

It was a land based map, a military port. Noah frowned. This map just would not do. Good thing he had accessed his zero system files in his GP base and set up a new location for them to fight…

As he launched onto the map Noah found the meijin almost waiting for him in the open roadways of the port. Figuring he wanted to have a quick word before the fight Noah landed across from him and lowered his weapons.

The meijin's amazing red warrior looked…well…amazing. It looked like he had been pretty psyched for this fight and likely spent all night tuning his gunpla just on the off chance he fought Noah's pride and joy.

Sure enough the meijin soon came on over his speakers. "I see you managed to repair your gunpla in time for our fight. I am honored." he stated as the red warrior bowed slightly. This confused Noah.

"Why are you the one who is honored? I get to fight the famed meijin Kawaguchi. I had hoped to fight you at point in the tournament but felt fate would also deny me my fight with sei. I figured it'd be you and me or me and him in the finals." stated Noah as his gunpla bowed as well.

The meijin chuckled. "I have heard rumors about your exploits, why you are using an entirely new type of gunpla, why you returned to gunpla battles in the first place." Said the meijin as he pointed to Noah's Gabriel gundam. "And I dare say not even rumors. Sei himself informed me of your tale, second hand of course but he told me of what you told china and what she has heard from Luke! You Noah Carson…HAVE BREACHED THE FOURTH WALL!" he exclaimed and Noah's eyes went wide.

"I assume that gunpla is your answer to your struggles there. You have surpassed even myself and sei in terms of your knowledge of gunpla battling. You have fought true gundams and come out on top!" he shouted, clearly about to enter somewhat of a mantra of how he felt Noah's journey ion the cosmic era compared to gunpla battles and Noah shook his head and the Gabriel's.

"No no no. I'll stop you right there. I fought the council princess team and Heine in the eft guaiz and something the system I created came up with. And even then I lost." Said Noah which the meijin was quick to reply to.

"Only because you were unable to repair your gunpla! You have reached a level myself and sei could only dream to obtain! You…Noah Carson…ARE A GUNDAM PILOT!" he exclaimed as he put the red warrior hands on its hips. "It is for this reason I am honored to fight you." he stated as the red warrior drew its gun blade.

Noah smiled. He had to admit…the fact the meijin was as honored to fight him as he was…well…it made him want to giggle and shy away like some girl being complimented on by her crush. It was an honor to get such high praise and made his surprise all the more worthy of this fight.

"Then if this fight means so much to you please…allow me to fight at my best…I'm sure your dying to break the fourth wall as well. Let me show you what it is to fight in a gundam." he said as his sword bits broke off from his back and flew around him. The meijin got in a defensive stance but seemed surprised when between them they formed a portal.

"I call it the quantum leap system. It allows me to tap into my zero system and create a localized portal to a gundam universe. It is also the subroutines in my OS that will allow me to finally go back to the cosmic era and save the girl I found there and fell in love with. Please…I promise no harm to your gunpla until you see what I mean." he said, his Gabriel putting away it's sword rifles and raising up to a hover level and floating around to be beside the red warrior as it put away it's gun blade.

The gunpla looked to Noah's and nodded. "It would be my honor to fight you in such a place." With that the red warrior boosted into the portal, dematerializing into red plavsky particles before the meijin's monitors went black.

Noah followed him and soon the audience was sadly given the same sign that Alice saw. "Arena system error: scanned gunpla missing"

World tournament part 3

After colony 196, colony L3X18999, December 24th, sometime before their declaration of independence

Wufei sat silently in the cockpit of altron custom aka nataku. He was overseeing the preparations for Miss Mariemaia's declaration of independence. He knew his former comrades would show up just as trowa did. But trowa was of no importance even if he knew he was a spy trying to stop the reinstituted plan, operation: meteor.

His true aim was to stop heero and duo from trying to stop them. With wing zero, deathscythe, heavyarms and sandrock all in a trash barge being sent to the sun his nataku was the only gundam in the after colony era to his knowledge. Qautre would put it upon himself to right what he saw as his own wrong and would go retrieve the gundams or try to. Trowa was already here and so that left the nut jobs heero yuy and duo Maxwell to try and stop them since they had no idea trowa was here.

He planned to fight heero…he was the one between them he saw as his rival in this case. The only one with enough skill to handle the zero system and to handle even a Taurus or space Leo that they would likely steal well enough to face him.

But as he watched over the preparations he saw a green flash in the distance and reached out to his controls. Perhaps he was wrong? Had qautre somehow gotten the gundams early and duo had just decloaked to begin his attack?

No that would mean heero's twin buster rifle would be cutting a swath through the Taurus suits already as he swooped in.

Using his main camera he zoomed in on what appeared to be 7 glowing objects that formed a circle, some sort of particles making a field between them.

He was about to call it in, likely send a couple mobile suits to check it out but then he saw something exit the particles…well more a mass of more red particles though these seemed to form a red mobile suit which boosted away but spun around to watch as another, slightly larger mobile suit that was painted red and black. As soon as it formed the objects broke their circle and seemed to latch onto something on its back. Perplexed by these two mobile suits, both clearly not known models and two very different designers if the particles coming off the second one's shoulders when the other one showed no particles had anything to say about it, wufei sat back in his cockpit, for now deciding to see what they did as they clearly had no intention…so far at least no intention of coming towards the colony.

World tournament part 3

After colony 196, just off colony L3X18999, December 24th, sometime before their declaration of independence

Meijin looked around as his monitors came back to life. While he could barely hear the crowd watching…well not watching this match outside his cockpit he was in awe of just where he was. The moment he exited he saw a colony in the distance…a wing gundam series colony. So this wasn't the cosmic era then.

Just as he came to this conclusion he spun around and saw Noah's model form and the portal closed. He smiled. This was amazing. To his knowledge never once had a space based gunpla arena field produced an A.C. shaped colony which was one of the most different ones compared to the plants hourglass figure or the tube shapes of the universal century and cosmic era. This was his first indication Noah was not lying. The second was the fact his arm rakes, while still free and as flawless as usual had some weight to them.

Noah seemed content to wait and let him take everything in so he raised his gunpla's arm and looked it over. It had ice on it…ICE. Again this was not normally simulated in gunpla battle. He also could tell just by looking at the Gabriel gundam that the gunpla were no longer such, not really. The size difference they had a moment ago with his being a 1/144th scale custom high grade and Noah's being a 1/100th scale master grade he had a slight size difference when in the arena. Now they were of similar height, which he estimated the real gundams would be.

Finally Noah spoke. "I assume by now you`ve realized where we are and are not going to freak out that I stole your gundam or changed the field?" he asked as he drew his GN sword rifles from his back.

The red warrior nodded and brought up the gun blade once more and smiled. Just as he was about to begin the fight Noah quickly held up both blades in an X defensive stance but also shouted, "Wait! Before we start you have to know. I haven't exactly cleared this area. Since I have not experienced this era and therefore have to go off the anime files I have we are technically in the middle of endless waltz. It was the best place I could find where we wouldn't have mobile suits on us nor would we risk being found by the earth alliance of the cosmic era. Speaking of which while I know GN particles are able to work there I am still unsure of a non-GN powered mobile suit. I did not want us to show up there and suddenly your gunpla powers down due to the n-jammers killing your nuclear reactor." Stated Noah in one long explanation.

"What does this all mean? Just where are we?" he asked and Noah answered by pointing a rifle over to the nearby colony.

"That is colony L3X18999. Mariemaia's colony. From what I believe I grabbed coordinate wise for both time and place she has yet to make her declaration of war and such. SO…we may get an actual gundam joining us if wufei see's us as a threat or we may even have some Taurus suits joining our fight. So be ready in case that happens." He said and then got ready once more.

The thought of actually fighting a gundam pilot had the meijin grinning and almost wanting to offer to concede the match just to go fight him. It was like he was a child again and he was having his passion for gunpla re-ignited. But he knew he also wished to fight Noah and his Gabriel, to see if the skills of someone to actually experience both gunpla battle and actual fights with actual gundams were on par with an actual gundam pilot. In a passing last childish thought he pondered perhaps inching towards the colony and issuing g a silent challenge to the Chinese gundam pilot.

With determination in his voice the meijin stated, "Understood…now. Let us fight!" he shouted and launched at the Gabriel, bringing his gunblade across for a diagonal upward slash towards Noah's right shoulder but Noah blocked it and the battle began in earnest.

World tournament part 3

After colony 196, colony L3X18999, December 24th, sometime before their declaration of independence

Wufei watched the two mobile suits and watched one point toward the colony. Initially his hands jumped to his controls, ready to launch and combat these new machines. But when they then began to fight each other he sat back, confused. Why would they fight? Were they not here to try and stop mariemaia's plans? Did they even know of the coming conflict? Either way it didn't matter. He began to inform his superiors of the development and see just what to do about it.

While he waited he watched them, deciding to see if he could gain some insight to the two machines that he was watching in case he was ordered to attack.

World tournament part 3

((ok…not posting it again, if you can't look back up and figure out where they are then maybe you should jump down to the end and wait for my next chapter…))

Noah was grinning ear to ear as the meijin backed off from his third attempt to break Noah's defense and get a hit on him. The gunpla battle legend launched a group of missiles at him from the skirt armor launchers and Noah brought his GN buster swords forward to block them before blocking the meijin's gunblade.

Finally the meijin decided to try a new tactic and as their blades met Noah saw his launch swung up under his sword arm and extend, preparing to fire. This time Noah boosted back and as the hyper bazooka fired what apparently had been an ammunition change when Noah went to slice the rocket in half/block it and instead found himself throwing his left GN sword rifle aside before it exploded. The beam round then hit his waist and he cursed as he also had to throw away his now damaged GN short sword kai before IT exploded.

With two of his enemy's weapons gone the meijin launched another offensive, unable to deny it he loved the rush he was feeling with each simple movement of his arm rakes. He could feel the weight of the machine, the shake of each arm as Noah countered. This…THIS was gunpla battle re-defined.

And the thought of wufei coming and interrupting them…well…suffice to say he was glad he was the meijin and therefore if the ref's were to call the match due to their gunpla missing and no one being able to see it he could easily over-ride them to a degree and suggest a rematch with new gunpla.

He would not trade this battle for anything.

As Noah once more blocked his blade he again brought his hyper beam bazooka up again and this time fired two projectiles before opening the two 3 tube missile launchers in his chest and firing them. Normally he found this tactic of overwhelming his enemies with such high amounts of firepower to be tasteless but Noah had such an equal level of defense and offense he needed it to break his defense.

Sadly Noah took advantage of his gundams speed and boosted back, throwing up a GN field to block all the rounds before dropping it, drawing his GN long sword kai and activating its rifle mode, unleashing a hail of red death from both the sword rifle and long sword.

Meijin boosted to the right, watching Noah's trail of particle rounds follow him before the GN drive powered suit boosted towards him and took a downward slash at him. He once more boosted away and raised his left arm, firing a small barrage from his shield mounted chain guns. This caused Noah to bring his buster swords to block and gave him an opening to bring up his long beam chain gun.

When Noah brought the massive blades back to his side it was meijin's turn to open up on him, watching Noah block a few rounds with both blades before having to ditch them both and boosted up which he followed.

He was surprised by the fact they were so evenly matched. Well...to a point. Clearly Noah was a master at building gunpla now and had certainly made an amazing gunpla...but it was not a gunpla meant for fighting in gunpla battles.

The Gabriel he could feel was built to do what the gundam wing pilots did…to take on the world and beat down entire armies. In a one on one fight though it was too evenly balanced and the way it was balanced left Noah with multiple openings if one employed the right weapons and tactics.

Also without a solid shield the gunpla was not very defensively sound if one could get him to open his buster swords.

Now out of small blades to fight with Noah reached down and grabbed both his katar's while the meijin made his mental notes on the gunpla he was using. As he watched him Noah surprised the meijin by forming the GN shield 2 with them before grabbing one of his buster swords of his GN drives. This perplexed the meijin even further. Wouldn't this make him unbalanced? Wouldn't…

He was brought out of his musings though not by Noah but just as the aforementioned gunpla battler had mentioned might happen, both units were finding themselves having to dodge or block a dragon fang.

As the massive green weapons retracted they both turned to wufei, which had both ends of his beam trident lit and seemed more the prepared to fight them…even if the Gabriel outclassed it purely by right of its GN drives giving it better mobility then even wing zero…well the TV version. Wing zero "custom" would be on par but had less armaments.

The meijin looked to Noah and was unsure how to play this out. After all he was still unsure if they would alter the endless waltz timeline if they outright destroyed wufei or if this was just some computer file that Noah could delete and act like nothing happened.

World tournament part 3

Wufei had watched the two fight and fight and had begun itching to fight them, mostly because they were new opponents and fought clearly on a similar level to himself and the other gundam pilots.

The one with particles coming of its shoulders seemed to rival heero when it came to handling a mobile suit…no their uniqueness made them gundams…either way the way it moved reminded him of heero's fighting style almost, the spin's rapid boosts back and forth, the firing a few shots before either letting the enemy close in or closing in with his own speed to take it to CQB before backing off.

Finally dekim himself came back on his monitor, wanting photos of the new machines, clearly upset by their presence. So he sent them the data he had gathered and quickly got his orders…

ENGAGE AND CAPTURE OR DESTROY BOTH SUITS

With that the eyes of nataku flashed to life and he boosted off the top of the colony, heading towards them.

Seeing the match was starting to become one sides as the red suit caught onto the others fighting style he decided his best bet was to separate them. With that he targeted them both with his dragon fangs and launched them.

He smirked when he succeeded at not only separating them but getting their attention. Deciding to try and at least know who he was fighting as their skill level denoted they at least deserved that respect he activated his external speakers while the dragon fangs returned to him and he activated both sides of his beam trident.

"This is wufei change of mariemaia's personal guard. Identify yourself and your reason for being here!" he exclaimed as he gripped his controls, ready to fight them if they decided to not show the same respect and attack him.

The two suits looked at each other and the red one seemed to wave. "I am meijin kawaguchi, third to be given the name, and a master of gunpla battling." He stated before bowing. It seemed one of them had manners. But what was this gunpla battle?

He turned his attention to the other one and waited. This one seemed to need to think of his words…or was planning how to take them both at once…

"I am Noah Carson, designer of the Gabriel gundam and leader to celestial being. We are an armed organization who own the mobile weapons known as gundams…from another universe. This will sound strange but we mean you no harm wufei. We are merely here to have a friendly sparring match." he stated and instantly regretting mentioning celestial being being an armed organization.

"So then this celestial being is here to stop Miss Mariemaia's or are you here to join us?" asked wufei, turning his attention to the glowing one. The fact he was with an armed organization worried the Chinese pilot.

"Neither. Like I said we are just here to have a friendly sparring match. When we are done we will be on our way home." Stated Noah but he swiftly had to raise his shield to block yet another dragon fang before as he lowered it he parried a beam trident with his GN buster sword.

In truth alone, him and the meijin could easily eliminate wufei, but he wasn't sure how permanent that may be…

Thankfully the meijin seemed intent on not letting wufei ruin their match as he boosted into the power struggle and pinged the nataku with some rounds from his head Vulcan, drawing wufei to him and finding himself dodging another dragon fang.

That was Noah's main concern. The meijin relied on his skill to fight, all he had for a shield was his small arm shield. If nataku got ahold of his gunpla with its dragon fangs it was game over. They weren't dealing with qautre who would offer a surrender option to them.

but at the same time it also meant if the red warrior got destroyed here while it'd just be a floating toy it still would be lost to the after colony era.

With that in mind Noah pushed wufei back and placed his buster sword back on his shoulder, boosting back to dodge another stab with the trident before another dragon fang came his way. He blocked it with his buster sword and let it hit it and slide up above his gunpla along the large blade.

Noah now also had a third issue, this one pertaining to his gunpla. The moment he fired his GN buster sword 2's rifle mode he either had to fire it like it was a buster rifle or a sniper rifle. It was his heavy weapon. And the moment he did either he'd draw Taurus suits to them as the blast would either hit one with a long range sniper beam that wufei dodged or the size of his charged blast would draw concern from the colony.

And with his smaller weapons destroyed by the meijin he found himself biting his lip…till he remembered his GN katar's. it wasn't perfect…but he quickly had them in their katar blade setting on both hands and boosted over to wufei who was trying to get rid of or disable the meijin first, his lack of a shield likely making him seem weaker.

Clearly the meijin was holding strong, blocking trident stabs but also managing to evade his dragon fangs. Noah planned to do something that he had not thought to try but had somewhat wanted to while he was in the cosmic era. He hoped to god this worked.

As he charged wufei the Chinese pilot quickly spun around to meet him, blocking a hail of beam chain gun fire on one arm while using the trident to block Noah's multiple stabs with the katar's. Seeing an opening during one of those stabs he pushed Noah back, launched one dragon fang at the red warrior and made a diagonal slash at the Gabriel gundam.

The gundam wing pilot smirked as he watched his beam trident dig into his opponent's torso and watched sparks fly from the gap. He had noticed that Noah was holding back though, he saw the large swords being used as shields and wanted to know if the foreign pilot could wield them properly like swords as he had originally seen him moving to do before he attacked. Then there were the rifle things he saw on his back. Why was he not using those?

It didn't matter. The gundam fell back likely to handle issues in his cockpit but instead of pushing to finish him he turned on the red gundam, pressing the attack and trying to find an opening but this opponent was strong, and even if his gundam was somewhat inferior in design, in wufei's opinion at least, to any of him or his comrades gundams, he knew how to utilize everything it had to both defend and attack with precision and grace.

As wufei focused on his attack though he didn't notice Noah coming back for a second attempt at his plan and for all three of them everything seemed to go to slow motion.

For wufei he finally found an opening in the red gundams defense and launched a close in dragon fang. The fang found purchase on the red warrior's waist and as it began to push it further as well as crush the machine it stopped.

For the meijin he watched as this happened while he had run into a trowa moment…all hid ammo was gone and it startled him to give that momentary opening. He was unsure what would happen when his gunpla was destroyed…but to have had this chance…it would be worth losing it.

Instead as he accepted the loss and began planning a new gunpla the dragon fang stopped and he looked to wufei. While the Chinese pilot had focused on fighting him he had not seen Noah come up behind him in trans-am and jam both his katar's into nataku's shoulders. A product likely of the radar and electronics jamming effect the GN particles had.

So as the green gundam floated in space, unable to do much he watched as Noah capitalized on wufei's likely outburst of rage and his GN sword bits broke off and flew out and around behind his red warrior. From there Noah used his trans-am to drag himself, wufei, and the meijin's red warrior through the portal before it closed with him going through immediately after the nataku, the red warrior barely being dragged in before the meijin could even react and boost through.

With the odd, amazing, glorious…just all around epic match finished he watched as his monitors came back online and they were once again in the port. He saw nataku, its dragon fang tying them together still, laying between him and the Gabriel gundam standing…well…sort of…the GN drives were barely producing particles, the eyes had dimmed…it seemed ready to die.

He looked down to his gunpla and as he tried to reach down and pry open the dragon fang he found his arms unable to move.

Finally the arena system called out. "BATTLE ABORTED!" and he was confused…till he saw one of the gunpla battle refs standing by the emergency shutdown switch.

"Whose gunpla is this?!" he shouted, pointing to the nataku gundam. It then donned on the meijin…Noah had pulled wufei through with them! He raced to a point around the arena he could reach the gunpla and grabbed them but had to let go instantly. For starters he touched the nataku and instantly his hands were burning, like he had just touched dry ice even with his gloves.

Upon closer inspection the nataku wasn't even plastic. It was made of metal. Second though he had went to grab his red warrior and it was almost as cold, but still plastic. Again it was Ice cold. Further proof they had not been in the arena system.

"I asked you both a question! Who's gunpla is this?" asked the referee as he went to grab the nataku and instantly pulled his hand away, the tell-tale signs of burns instantly setting in. "what the hell?" he muttered before the meijin heard Noah call for a medic and run over.

The two of them stared at the tangled mess until a few other famous fighters ran up to see just what had happened. The moment Mao walked up the meijin turned to him. "Mao…I may break them in the process…but do you have a pair of tweezers on you?" he asked, knowing the man had once carried a modeling kit on him at all times.

Mao nodded and handed them to him. With the long modeling tweezers and a determined look on his face the meijin reached over and grabbed a link of the dragon fang. The moment he did the tips of the tweezers bonded to it and froze, but still as the entire thing began to freeze from how cold the dragon fang he swiftly dragged the metal gundam to them. There was one thins he HAD to know and as he glanced to Noah and saw a worried look…he knew Noah had to know as well.

As more refs ran up with the medics, concerned of foul play he quickly held up his hands before questions could begin flying. "ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED ION TIME! I NEED SILENCE!" He shouted as he bent down as close as he could to the model. Sadly breaking the tweezers, or what he could, he used the remains to poke and prod the cockpit section till he found the hatch. With a grunt he opened the top half…then lowered the bottom.

What they found inside…was amazing. The level of detail…it was like Noah had LITERALLY pulled the nataku through. But what he and Noah wish to know…was what became of wufei.

Confident he wasn't missing any small yells of curses from wufei somehow being minturized and still alive, he grabbed what was a soft figure inside and gently pulled it out.

The first thing that jumped to them all was the perfect detailing. It was literally a miniature wufei…and since he WASN'T still thawing from the temperatures of space the meijin set him down and this time poked him with his finger.

Again no screams of yells, no movement…but the limp figure also wasn't plastic. Instead as he gently picked up the miniature pilot and gently rubbed him between his fingers the best thing he could compare the material too…well was normal clothing materiel. And as he gently pinched his arms it was like touching some form of silicone. He felt no bones, felt no skeletal structure in general.

"Exacto knife. "He said simply, all eyes enraptured by his musings as Mao handed him said blade. Being careful not to potentially poke the wrong place he pricked the small wufei gently on the leg, what would have been a 50 caliber bullet sized wound in size comparison, was a pin prick with the tip of the knife. When no fluids, blood, melted tissue or whatever the meijin stood up. And handed everything back to the new master of the legendary gunpla building school.

He then turned to Noah and nodded. "He's not real…whatever happened to him though…the fabric of his uniform is real, but his skin…his body…it's…well…the best comparison of material is the cyber skin used on high end adult toys." he said bluntly which got a few odd looks back and forth between the two.

"So we didn't commit murder? Well I didn't" asked Noah and the meijin smiled and nodded.

"Yes…you did not kill him." he stated before turning to the confused ref's. "Noah Carson was showing me his new technology, how he performed his "beam transfer" technique in the survival round and a…mishap came about as we continued our match in this technological breakthrough. Please, disregard this match and give us two hours to prepare fresh gunpla and to allow those to warm up so they can be removed. That or someone get hazmat gloves. Either way those gunpla are unsuitable for a rematch. It will happen today though! Can we agree on this?" he asked. Too confused to argue with the great meijin Kawaguchi the referee's nodded and made the call, telling people the fights would continue in two hours.

Once the stadium began to clear the meijin looked back to the three…no 2 gunpla and the miniaturized gundam. If they cracked it open…well more than the cockpit…would it be plastic? Or would they find the makings of a small gundam? The questions burned in his mind and he almost dared risk the third degree burns to break off the dragon fang from his amazing red warrior just to see what happened to the fangs.

Either way everyone left the arena and went about preparing the next round, no one daring touch the gunpla icicles.

World tournament part 3

"Reality" 2 hours after the fight in the AC era.

Noah bit his lip as he stood in front of everyone. Everyone being sei, Fellini, Mao, Nils, and a pair of gunpla ref's who had their phones out with 911 dialed but not called. He was in big trouble if he didn't say the right thing.

Behind them…well behind everyone but Nils sat the massive gunpla battle system that was the main stage for the finals. On it sat the gundam nataku, torn apart…well not torn but it was certainly disassembled. That was where it came back to him being in trouble.

Nils had been carefully disassembling it after they realized it was not only not metal but it was not a metal from their earth. Of course half an hour ago the stand had refilled mostly and the crowd was ready for the rematch between Noah and the meijin. Around this time the gunpla had been deemed "warm enough" after the deep freeze they went through that they wouldn't break at the slightest touch and Nils was working on nataku with special gloves on.

As Noah and tatsuya grabbed their gunpla though Nils had shouted that they needed to clear the stadium and to quarantine the people who had been closest to the stage when Noah and the meijin stopped their fight. That was everyone here.

The source of the panic was the small cylinder that was resting in the back of nataku.

Knowing that the wing series machines had a micro fission reactor for a power source and having heard both Noah AND the meijin claim it was the real nataku nil's had had a Geiger counter on hand and active in case the machine had not simply shrunk and become a model and instead literally shrunk but was still a gundam.

Sadly Nils had found out the hard way that the small machine was in fact a working gundam. After pulling apart small wires, having to cut through a few panels to get to the core of the "model" to examine it his Geiger counter went insane the moment he pulled a small circular housing off the now visible cylinder. It became even worse when once the stadium was empty aside from them he put the meter up to the cylinder and it nearly broke the meter.

The nataku gundam…WAS the nataku gundam!

"Well…did you plan to bring nuclear weaponry into the stadium or not?" asked a ref. if they didn't believe him Noah would be labeled a terrorist and arrested.

"Was this an attempt at a terrorist bombing?" asked the other ref as he tapped his foot. The wires. The metal housing, the fact no one saw the nataku attack them, and no one believed the meijin when he tried to defend Noah and had actually had the refs starting to think he was in league with Noah…it all looked like an attempt to bring a gunpla shaped nuclear bomb through his quantum leap system.

Noah finally shook his head. "No…it wasn't a terrorist attack. I didn't even plan to bring the nataku here!" he shouted, his nerves getting the best of him as he threw his arms up. "Why can't you believe me? I have never brought a gundam back through that system. Hell that's only the second time I've used that system. I didn't even know it would work!" he shouted as he groaned.

Finally Nils walked around them all and up to Noah, putting his hand on his shoulder. Noah looked into the man's eyes with sorrow. He didn't wanna go to jail, or be executed or whatever before he even got to save Nina. Nils looked back and smiled. "Do you have any way to prove this? Prove this isn't a bomb?" he asked as he looked back at the disassembled war machine.

Noah shrugged. "I have an idea…but it would require the system I'm working on to be finished and for me to have access to it AND for me or someone else to…well to make contact with one of the pilots and try to get them to let us bring their gundam through." he stated as Nils was pulled back by the refs.

"You mean you need to use a system like that one again? No way in hell! If you can't prove this is a terrorist bomb then we need to cancel the finals and let the authorities figure this out." Stated a ref as he hit the call button on his phone but when he went to put the phone to his ear Riccardo Fellini took it and hung up, causing everyone to gasp.

"Noah…do you have to be the one to use the system?" he asked as he gave the ref back his phone. Noah shook his head. The Italian dandy smiled at this.

"By make contact with one of the pilots…do you mean somehow actually interact with them through the gunpla system? And if so what if they were to turn into that stuff like wufei did?" asked the meijin, his own interest peaked at what Fellini was insinuating.

Noah again shook his head. "no. someone would have to use my simulator I'm working on at home, use my new programing to break the fourth wall and leave their gundam and physically talk to the pilot. I`m not sure what happened to wufei so I won't risk them just coming through in their gundam." he stated as he closed his eyes. This would be a way to test his theory…but…if it didn't work…

What he was suggesting made them all gasp. To actually talk to the pilots? Hell to actually talk pilot a gundam? A moment later they were all smiling.

"And…what series would you want us to use?" asked Nils as he cupped his chin in his hand in thought.

Noah shrugged. "Any I guess. Aside from most of the cosmic era mobile suits…gundams are all powered by one form of a fission reactor or another…well except the gundams in 00. But…to really prove it's not a bomb you`d likely wanna talk to qautre or duo. Or even trowa. Any of them would be glad to help us sort this out even if it meant sacrificing their gundam." said Noah but he had reluctance in his voice.

Fellini raised an eyebrow at this. "You sound like you have a preference. Or like you have doubts even." He stated as he thought about taking the fenice reniscita into the wing series.

Noah again shook his head. "No no…I'm just…I'm wondering if maybe I could move my simulation that I…recorded further along and we could try to talk to Kira during the peace times in the cosmic era. Not only do I already have a history with them but he knows me and…well murrue at least KINDA knows about gunpla. They didn't believe me though for the same reason as you're not believing me now. It had/has never been done. A gundam made from a plastic model. How crazy does that sound? As crazy as breaking the fourth wall and bringing an actual gundam back." He said which made them all nod in understanding. Even the refs. Who'd believe any of this?

Still Fellini wasn't exactly satisfied. "Yes but that doesn't exactly sound like all of it." He stated. Noah nodded. "Yes. There is also the fact that to ensure that their specific gundam timeline, which we would ruin with our entrance at that point, is not too damaged I'd want the pilot to come with us to also ensure that even if I saved that time line in the form of data that we wouldn't jump back to our insertion point with the intent on bringing his gundam back only for him to have a new one and not know us. That's where using Kira would be better. If he didn't come with us he won't be any worse off without the freedom nor will he care. At the same time I intend to go back sooner then we'd be inserting and he would never lose the freedom in the first place. I mean it's your call…well whoever does it can make the call, but they need to come back with us. "he said and a ref rose their hand and growled.

"Why do you keep saying we? You think you're going? Again why would we…" the ref began to berate Noah but Nils stopped him. "I'll go…I'm assuming you have 2 forms of transport already? "He asked. Noah nodded and Nils did as well in response.

"it`s settled then. While the tournament finishes I will use whatever notes you may have on this simulation system to finish it and prepare it for a trial run. And as the organizer of this tournament I declare this incident dealt with. Let the crowds back in…we need to finish this tournament. Noah and the meijin will have a rematch, timed at 15 minutes, can you both agree to this? "He asked as he put his arms in his sleeves, his lab coat mimicking his old battling uniform.

The two fighters grinned and nodded. As the group dispersed and Nils prepared to gather the nataku a ref grabbed his arm gently. "Sir…I realize you're the guy who will be signing my check and paying for this tournament but...what if you're wrong?" he asked

Nils shrugged. "I'll be sure to put the nataku in a place where it will do the least harm should it self-destruct." He said with a smile before returning to the task at hand.

The ref growled and walked off.

World tournament 3

Still reality guys…staying here unless stated otherwise...

Noah flexed his fingers on the control orbs of the gunpla battle arena. It was a simple rematch. He had to keep telling himself that. This wasn't the finals. He still had to win here. But he was worried about what happened earlier. He had had to give Nils his address, his entire living room/lab would be moved to Nils's lab where he would finish building the second cockpit. Then he'd work on running strictly computer simulations to see about Noah going back in general but now also for him AND a second pilot to go back and find someone to give them their gundam. Basically he was leaving the finishing touches on his system to Nils.

Of course he warned him of the zero system and its apparent sentience. He also warned him not to try it without him there. The last thing he needed was Nils going in with his sengoku astray and getting stuck like he had.

Finally as the arena launched him he came back to the here and now. It was a fight between kampfers, the meijin deciding to use his kampfer amazing while Noah was using his kampfer elite.

The kampfer elite was one of his models used to test certain aspects of the gundams he built for celestial being as well as the Gabriel gundam.

The kampfer elite was, like most of his gunpla, was completely black. The antennae was slightly longer, thicker, and curved back more against his dead. The forearms were thick, triple barrel machine guns like the one Alex used to bring the kampfer down were hidden within.

On the racks on its back instead of bazooka's he had upgraded from a pair of shotgun's…he loved that part of the kampfer, but he upgraded to a pair of assault rifles from a couple new graze models. These rifles were hastily built prior to the battle to counter the meijin's amazing rifle and the fact he had built the kampfer to be very much a CQB machine but also to be fast…very fast.

At its waist sat two more shotguns…what could he say he loved the kampfers shotgun. But between the two shotguns sat a pair of machete's, serrated back and all. Finally on both legs sat large grey…bricks. Looking like undetailed missile pods one would assume they were just that…an unfinished piece. But inside them sat two chain mine whips, ready for Noah to use or lay as a trap at any time.

As he landed he saw that the map was that of a naval base. Knowing that the kampfer amazing was rated to be just as powerful underwater as on land he decided to enter hover mode and began silently searching the base, drawing both assault rifles and getting ready for anything.

A few minutes later he had to boost to the side to dodge a flurry of green beams. He turned around to find the kampfer amazing right on his tail. It seemed it had been tuned and set up for speed. That was obvious.

As meijin raised his beam sub machine guns Noah raised his assault rifles and as they weaved back and forth amongst buildings he was shown just how accurate the meijin could be as for every bullet he fired, the same round was intercepted by a beam.

His kampfer elite had to dive behind a building when he heard his rifles click empty. Growling he threw down the rifles and as the kampfer amazing came around the corner he raised his left arm and the triple barrel machine gun popped out, quickly spitting out a hail of deadly depleted uranium rounds. Quickly blocking with his arms the meijin backed back around the corner but one of his sub machine guns was caught with a round and Noah smiled when the dark blue machine disappeared in the smoke of its exploding weapon.

Knowing the meijin would only need a moment to get a weapon from one of its cases he closed his left arm and drew one of his shotguns, flooring it after him and quickly pumping off a pair of shells without even aiming.

As he finally looked to the kampfer amazing he quickly found himself throwing his new shot gun away as a beam pierced it and he boosted forward and away, spinning around with his left arm raised once more to see the kampfer holding his amazing beam rifle.

The kampfer was quick to take aim once more but he had to boost to the left and off his rooftop perch to avoid another hail of bullets.

This battle was much faster paced and adrenaline fueled as when the meijin landed he found himself face to face with Noah's other shot gun. Barely having time to move he boosted back and around another corner to try and get away from Noah but his right arm got caught in a shotgun blast and he found himself surrounded by smoke as his model was rocked by the explosion of his right arm.

Noah capitalized on this and as the meijin backed up out of the cloud it soon was pierced by even more bullets. Growling at how he disliked this position he found himself in the boosted to the left and flew away, rounding another corner as Noah came through the smoke, both arms raised.

Noah looked around, trying to figure out just where the legendary fighter had gone. This battle was intense. It made Noah feel like he was back in the cosmic era. Suddenly Noah's world began to go dark and he looked around before finally looking up just in time to find himself boosting back to dodge the meijin who spun around and in his remaining arm was the same chain gun he used to be the Renaldo brothers. Quickly it spun up and Noah found himself trying to out run the torrent of bullets the massive gun spat out. Finally one of his rear thrusters took a couple rounds and as it exploded Noah found himself tumbling, half his right leg gone.

Groaning he found he was on his stomach and as he rolled onto his back him again found the meijin airborne and aiming to land atop him. Quickly he reached down and activated the handle on the chain mine and as it burst from its case he timed it perfectly so when he swung his right arm up and the whip, each mine found purchase on the chain gun and the last one landed on the kampfer amazing hand.

Before the mines could dig in and activate though the mighty meijin let go of the gun and instead the last mine gripped the handle.

The mines quickly activated shortly after and exploded till the meijin landed a short ways away from Noah and the remains of the chain gun landed around him.

Meijin Kawaguchi was not one to lose easily…but his kampfer wasn't exactly up to date in terms of care and tuning. So he wasn't surprised he was where he was at but still….as he ejected his last full weapons container. He glanced to Noah who was having a hard time finding his balance as he stood. Noah wouldn't need much longer but the lack of half his right leg and no foot obviously he would not be moving too well for a moment.

Tatsuya opened the container as he heard Noah boost somewhere and carefully hefted the 4 tube missile launcher onto his left shoulder. Once he was sure he'd be able to fire ok he turned to see Noah balancing himself carefully on a nearby building. It was clear this was where they would end things.

In truth he was at a small disadvantage with the fact all he had left were his heat plates, his knives, head Vulcans, and this missile launcher. But at least he had stable footing. He boosted to the left barely as Noah raised his left arm and tried firing a barrage of bullets only to find the slight recoil being enough to have him stumbling around like a novice on an ice rink.

Meijin chuckled and raised the missile launcher, waiting for a lock on before he let loose the four missiles. He didn't expect them to hit, after all Noah still had his head Vulcans even if he couldn't fire his machine guns. To his surprise though Noah didn't just shoot them down. Instead he reached down and withdrew a second chain mine whip and swung it out, quickly whipping it back down then up once more to form an N line in front of him for a few seconds.

It was all he needed as the missiles impacted the chain mines…well all but one. Still the explosions would likely knock Noah back so the meijin found himself feeling a b it…confident that he had beaten Noah so he began to hover towards the massive cloud of smoke.

Drawing his knife he got ready to finish Noah but was surprised when he had to boost back to dodge a forward thrust from one of Noah's machetes. He looked at the kampfer elite, now missing an arm of its own, the left one, but also the head pretty heavily damaged at well. It seemed Noah was going to go down swinging. No matter.

As Noah used his thrusters to keep himself up right the meijin blocked a few swings from the machete and dodged a few more. He knew this was is for Noah…and knew what this fight meant for him. No…not this fight this tournament. So for now he let him continue to swing at him….till finally Noah's machete collided with his knife once more and he found himself struggling with Noah. The boy seemed to be trying to push this swing. It was a diagonal, downwards slash and he found himself having to really fight Noah.

Growling he finally slipped, his remaining arm swinging out to the side…but so did Noah's blade! Rather than pull back from the attack Noah continued through it…only to throw the blade! The meijin was confused till he found himself raising his arm to block a flurry of rounds fired from Noah's head Vulcans.

What was Noah's strategy? This confused him even more as he lowered his arm to see Noah just standing where he was. No motion, maneuvering thrusters keeping him upright. He was so confused till as he began to lower his knife and prepare to check and make sure Noah was ok he found his screen filled with Noah's fist.

The kampfer staggered back and he got another blow to the gut, then again to the head. What was Noah planning?! His answer came when what should have been another punch to the gut the meijin found his model being speared by a machete. Still this wasn't entirely enough to finish him and so he dug his knife into Noah's neck.

It was then it donned on him….not only had Noah not let go of the machete…but his arm Vulcans…clearly the left one likely had not only run out of ammo but was now gone…but the right one was barely fired! He smirked, Noah had used the confusion of his bizarre tactics distract the meijin before…

"Battle ended!"

Called the arena system as Noah used his hold on the machete as an anchor point and the wrist gun opened up and unloaded on the kampfer amazing at point blank range.

As the arena powered down the meijin could hear the crowd cheering. Everyone loved the match. He watched Noah walk around and hold out his hand. Tatsuya smiled and took it, shaking Noah's hand with a huge grin on his face. "Thank you Noah for the chance to fight you. It has been an honor and a privilege to be your opponent. And if you ever meet wufei…tell him the same goes for him." stated the meijin

Noah nodded. "The same goes for you. Even Fellini barely matched it but you…fighting you I felt like I was back in the cosmic era. Thank you for reminding me what that rush was like." he stated with a smile before they both began to collect their models.

World tournament 3

Ok…so…this is the last time I'm posting this chapter. I`m sorry, I really am…but I just feel I can barely do fights justice given how most of my writing skill comes from role playing and so writing fights like these especially is hard for me. So to me….to try and write sei fighting Noah…I don't know I just feel like I can't do it justice.

SO! Unless I change something or you guys end up preferring a fight without wufei or the alternate Nina scene then this is the last time I'll be posting this chapter so I can finally finish chapter 2…yeah…only chapter 2 guys for tempering a blazing soul. Gotta finish it cause as much as I wanna please you guys and keep this going I technically need to work on that fiction more so I can get it over with. Plus those chapters will be shorter and easier to fire off and the story itself will be short.

ANYWAYS! Also another reason my fight writing skills feel lacking is I read nemesis' latest chapter…holy fuck…dude…I am glad to even be trying to work on the same plotline as you. I mean really I think if you and I role played out each of these fights and I hashed them together into a proper story style writing I think they would be so much better.

So yeah…also realized while I have changed a lot of things with Noah's participation in the bloody valentine conflict…most of what I wrote fell in line with the series and wasn't super original…well not as much as I hoped. So no…I'm not revamping the whole story…just letting you all know I'm gonna try and not have that happen after the next chapter as that one's nearly done.

With all that said…I wish you all had a happy holidays and hope you have enjoyed each portion of this chapter. Time to go finish the entrance for the Gabriel.

ALLLONS-Y! And yes…my girlfriend has me hooked on the good doctor.