Let's go chapter 2: Competition! Friends and Enemies
"NEO? What the heck are you doing here? This room is for club member and school staff only" Vent said with surprise.
"I could say the same about you. What are YOU doing here?" Neo tried to say in a calm tone, which didn't match his actions, as he was clenching his fist.
"Oh, I take it you know each other, Vent?" said Yui with her hand on Vent's shoulder.
"Yeah, Neo here is my best friend. I was the first person to talk to Neo at all during school. Everyone thought he was just another emo kid with no heart, but I managed to shed some light on that subject. Remember Neo?"
"More that I liked as I remember Vent shining a flashlight in my face because and I quote 'he wanted to make sure I wasn't a vampire'." As I said this both of the girls were giggling to themselves "But more importantly Vent, why didn't you tell me that you were a member of the Gunpla battle club?"
" Simple, you never asked. Anyways Neo, Anna, What are you doing here?" Yui then pulled Vent into the other room to talk. Anna looked at Neo as if asking' what do you think there talking about' and he just shrugged his shoulders. Vent and Yui came out of the room and Vent walked up to the twins and said, "Alright you two. If your going to be part of the club, you two are going to have to pass a little test." Vent said with a certain smirk on his face.
'Oh boy, I know that smirk. That the 'I've got something in store for you' kind of smirk.' I decided to take his bait." All right Vent, so what kind of 'test' do you have in mind?"
"We're going to have a double battle. Me and Yui vs. you and Anna, so what do you say?"
Yui then said." We'll be setting a time limit of four minutes. If you can survive that long, then you're in. Oh and by the way Neo, our last battle was also a test, and I was holding back."
"I thought so. Well let's hope this time; you can give me and my sister more of a challenge. Ready Anna?" Neo said as he readied his Shadow Justice Gundam.
"Oh yeah, I'm ready" Anna said with excitement as she readies her own custom SD Akatsuki, the Infinity Gundam.
Meanwhile, a car was parked outside with both windows down, the driver and passenger seemingly watching the battle.
"Well Victor, do you see which side will win?" said the man in the driver's seat. He was apparently a 26 year-old man with whitish-blond hair and glasses in a gray business suit. The boy in the passenger seat had a black hooded jacket on to hide his appearance, but you can make out a pair of silver eyes.
"Actually, I want to see how this fight plays out without my prediction. After all, they're gonna be our new opponents, right Father?" said the boy now know as Victor.
'Please set your GP base.' The four fighters set their GP bases and were ready to go.
'Beginning Plavsky particle dispersal. Field 1, Space' Stated the machine as the battle field loaded in, a large space field with a giant colony surrounded by many smaller asteroids know for the last place of the One Year War, A Baoa Qu. 'Battle start'
Vent was the first to set his gunpla, a repainted Harute Gundam with no modifications. "Vent Galeson, Warrior Harute, Let's go!"
"Yui Hoshino, Legilis X, ready to go!" The Legilis then took off with the Harute.
"Neo Subaru, Shadow Justice, launching!" The Shadow Justice flying out of the pad.
"Anna Subaru, SD Infinity Gundam, ready to fight!" The Infinity then flies out to join the Shadow Justice while the two search for the Legilis and Harute. The Infinity landed on one of the asteroids outside and was looking around
" I can't see anything with all these asteroids outside of A Baoa Qu. What about you Neo?"
The Shadow Justice, cloaked by its Mirage Colloid system, was floating next to a larger one next to the Infinity. " I saw the Harute coming this way in its fighter mode so I cloaked, but the Legilis isn't with it. I think it went inside of A Baoa Qu."
' Great, so their planning to separate us. Well then, we'll just give them what they want.' "Neo, let's split up. I'll head into A Baoa Qu to find the Legilis. You focus on Vent and the Harute. Try to surprise him."
"Umm Anna, I think that's gonna be a problem." Neo said as he noticed the Harute had found them and was firing its GN cannons. The Justice and Infinity had dodged the two large beams and the Justice uncloaked. "GO! I've got this." The Infinity then flew away into the colony, leaving the Warrior Harute and Shadow Justice to themselves.
" Well Neo, our third fight so far?" vent said with a smile.
" Yeah. Both of our battles beforehand ended in a draw, but that ends now! Here I come!" Neo yelled as he cut his communication with Anna, he then discarded the beam rifle to draw both beam sabers and rushed forward.
" Bring it Neo! Show me what you can do!" yelled Vent as the Harute transformed into mobile suit mode and grabbed its sword rifles, which switch to sword form and clashed with the beam sabers. Both suits pushed each other back and slashed again and again, neither giving the other any opening, the two then flew backwards, with the Warroir Harute firing its GN Cannons, while the Shadow Justice fired its Impulse Cannons from the Oowashi striker pack, canceling each out and the force of the shockwave had destroyed many of the asteroids around them before they rushed each other again, melee weapons in hand.
Meanwhile inside A Baoa Qu, The Infinity was flying through the colony searching for the Legilis X. Once inside the colony, Anna had noticed Neo had cut off his communication. "Oh course Neo would do that. He wants to settle his rivalry with Vent. All right Anna, stay focused. The Legilis had to be around here somewhere." just after she said that, a storm of beam bits came flying at her from above. Luckily, the Infinity has beam-reflecting armor and deflected some of the bits back into the nearby wall. "And I think I figured out where." The Infinity then flew up to flush out the Legilis, only to be grabbed by the tail of the Legilis X.
" Thought you could surprise me, didn't you? You'll have to do better than that."
" Well I've got many tricks up my sleeve. Go DRAGOONS!" The 9 DRAGOONS pods on the back then launched, with one of them blasting the Legilis's tail off. The Legilis then detaches said tail and proceeds to use its beam rifle to destroy the DRAGOONS. Yui had destroyed 8 of the 9 DRAGOONS before the last one attempted to blindside her. Unfortunately, the Legilis had turned around and blasted it to pieces with the head Vulcans. The Infinity tried to throw its shield as a shuriken, but the Legilis turned around and caught it, and then crushed it. "Oh, well that probably wasn't the best thing to do. But still..." The Infinity then draw its dual beam saber. "..I'm not done yet" Anna yelled as her SD charged in to the Legilis who had whipped out the beam saber in its right hand to parry. The two were in a lock, beam saber locked with each other, beam rifles pointed at each others chest.
" Ha, looks like we're at a draw." Anna said.
" Yes, one move and we both shoot. Might as well huh?" Yui said with a smile. They both nodded while the Infinity and Legilis shot each other in the core, both exploding in defeat.
Neo and Vent notice the sound of two explosions inside A Baoa Qu. The Harute, having lost its left GN cannon and leg, while the Shadow Justice lost its striker pack and its beam rifle.
"Looks like the girls took each other out. Anna's gotten a lot better." Vent said with surprise.' Back then she could barely control her SD at all, and now she's got into a tie with Yui? " Well Neo, let's finish this. TRANS-AM!" The Harute then shined its crimson red and blindsided the Justice with afterimages.
"Sorry Vent, but that's not gonna get me this time!" The Shadow Justice barely blocked the sword rifle before it got the beam saber knocked out of its left hand, which was replaced with one of the shoulder boomerangs and was thrown and damaged the right GN cannon. The Harute detached the entire backpack and rushes the Justice with its blade in hand. the Justice charges with the other boomerang and threw it into the Harute's left shoulder, who threw his sword and knock the other beam saber out of his and Vent are smiling at such a fun battle, then the Justice and Harute go in to punch each other.
(BBBBBBBBBBBRRRRINNNNNNGGGGGG) Neo and Vent stop what their doing and look at Yui surprised.
" Ahh man, I forgot about the timer. Without that timer I would have finally won." Neo said in annoyance.
'Yeah right, when I start using the Buster Gundam maybe, but not today. But still, you and Anna have gotten better. Neo, if your serious in the tournament like this, then we might have a chance.' Vent thought.
Outside, Victor and his father had begun to drive off." So Victor, is this why you wouldn't tell me who would win?"
" Maybe, mostly to gauge their strength." Victor retorted.
"And? what do you think?"
Victor had looked back to the room and smiled. " I honestly don't know, but I wouldn't relax too easily." He responded. His father nodded and they both drove of to their home.
" Well Neo and Anna, you survived. Welcome to team..uhh..."
"What Vent means is, we haven't come up with a team name. Mike was supposed to come up with one." Yui said
" I'm guessing Mike is another member of the club?" Anna asked with Yui and Vent both nodding. " Well then. How about Beginning Leapers?"
Neo,Vent, and Yui looked at each other then at Anna and all three said" No."
" Dark Storm?" Suggested Vent
"Nope, I think a good name would be Super Ace Fighters." Said Yui.
" Yui, I don't think that's a good name." said Vent
" Well then what do you suggest? Dynes Dynamo? Guardians of Gunpla? Heart Racers?" and many other weird names. Neo was thinking the entire time and a thought popped up.
'OH, I got an idea' "Hey guys." Neo now had their attention. " How about Team Blazing Star?"
Vent:" I like it.
Anna:" I don't know, it seems kinda...bland. But I don't have any better ideas so why not?"
Yui: "I like it. It has a strong sound to it. Besides, it is the name my new boyfriend picked out, isn't it?
Vent:"Yeah, it is-(Mental crash) WAIT A SEC, BOYFRIEND?! NEO!"
"Uh-oh!" Neo said as he was now running from the horrifying rage that is Vent Galeson.
(So after Neo explain how it happened, Vent decided to let it go. After that event, the team decided to go home and rest. They were gonna need it more than they know.)
Meanwhile, at Iori models, Sei was back in town and was working at the store for awhile, but he was about to get a real surprise. Sei was a the counter, counting the income for today, when the door to the shop opened and two people walked in." Welcome to-" Sei had began, but as soon as he saw who it was, he was speechless. The boy on Sei's left had red, unkempt hair and a similarly colored vest. The girl next to him had silver and a white and gray colored jacket.
"Hey Sei, long time no see huh?" said the boy.
" REIJI?! AILA?!"
Yeah. Bet none of you saw this coming, did ya? So Reiji and Aila are back, so this year's tournament is bound to be full of twist and surprises. So, who is Victor father and what team do they work for? When will Neo and the others change their gunpla? and When is Vent going to admit his crush on Anna? All will be answered in time, but for now, The is Destiny Trailblazer, and I'll see you in the next chapter. Peace.