(Author's note #1: I know that there are some errors when it comes to grammar and spelling along side a lack of GunPla battles in the first episode, and for that I am sorry. I will try and fix any errors that I find in the foreseeable future before I upload any new episodes. Anyway, this episode will feature more battles than episode one and will be the start of the show's first mini arc that should not take that many episodes to finish due to the first season that I have planned only being 26 episodes long. With that out of the way, let's get things started off right. GunPla fight all set, ready...GO!)
Total Drama Build Fighters
Episode 2: You Never Forget Your First
(Opening Theme: "Win Tough Fight" by You Yamakazi)
The episode begins where the previous episode leaves off with the adversity twins, Jay and Mickey Coulson entering the Wawanakwa High GunPla battle club headquarters with the teams coach, Estwynn Paratus. Much to their surprise, the building seemed more tame than what they expected from something with the word "battle" in its name: the room only had a few work benches, a main battle arena, some scattered posters of various mobile suits, and a few shelves protected by glass that contained a wide assortment of GunPla from all the different eras within the "Gundam" Metauniverse. The building also contained a wide assortment of people, including and not limited to Geoff, Brody, Bridgett, the people they pointed out the other day, and a myriad of new faces that weren't quite introduced yet with some of them being pointed out by Geoff and Brody to the twins in some of their classes the day before. Once everyone was settled in, Estwynn decided to strike up a conversation with the twins.
Estwynn: Glad to see that you two decided to give it a shot, it's always a pleasure to have more people interested in the world of GunPla.
Brody: Jay, Mickey, glad to see that you dudes showed up.
Jay: Thanks, Mickey and I thought about this all night before we decided this morning to at least give it the old college try.
Estwynn: A little bit of creativity with your words there, I like it. Devin, could you set these two up with some GunPla from the cases and some GP Bases until they can build their own, and please hurry, I have an announcement to make.
Devin Wilcox: Right away, coach.
An Asian Canadian male with spiky black hair and matching eyes wearing a white long sleeved shirt under a yellow-green tee shirt with the symbol of power for electronics on the center with dark blue jeans and black sneakers approached the twins and showed then to the glass cases where they were to choose their fighting machines.
Devin: Take your pick, you guys might be using these for a while, and soon I might add.
Mickey: Why do you say that?
Devin: It's kind of a tradition that we made up when Estwynn helped build up the club to what it is today: if your new to the club and this is your first day with us, then you HAVE to play a battle.
Jay: Seriously, so soon?!
Mickey: We don't even know how to fight yet!
Devin: Don't worry about it that much, the model damage level on the battle arena is always set to the lowest setting when we use it for battles and training so we can go all out with our kits, and not worry about damaging them too much. If you guys lose your fights, than it's no biggie because there won't be any real harm done.
Jay: That's somewhat comforting.
Devin: No problem, now meet me with the others when you've picked your GunPla out, you'll want to hear what Estwynn has to announce because they're mostly really important. Oh, and you guys will be needing these.
Devin hands each of them a small handheld device.
Mickey: What are they?
Devin: These are GP Bases. They have all of the battle skills for every GunPla here on them to allow them to be used for battle.
Jay: Thanks for telling us about that.
Devin: No problem, every member of battle club believes in giving the opponent a fair fight.
The two brothers spent a few minutes looking over the plastic mechs to decide which ones they would be using for their first battles. Jay had ultimately chosen a Reborn 1/100 MSF-007 Gundam MK. 3 while Mickey had chosen a 1/144 High Grade PMX-000 Messala from the series "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam". After the two had made their choices, the regrouped with the others to hear what Estwynn had to say.
Estwynn: Alright everyone, listen up. I know that we have been pretty busy over the summer with all of the community work that we had done, and we really haven't gotten a whole lot of practice in aside from random fights with Dark Avalon and the White Fang, so some of you might be feeling a little rusty when going into battle. This is why I have come up with the idea to have a little tournament to sharpen those edges of yours. I know that there are about 37 of you here, which is why I need two volunteers to sit this one out to serve as referees. Katie, Sadie, could you two please come up here with me?
A svelte African Canadian female and a portly Asian Canadian female both with black hair done in small pigtails and matching eyes wearing matching black and white short sleeve black and white striped tops that exposed their midsections with pink short shorts and pink ballet style flats approached the professional fighter.
Katie Sanders and Sadie Masterson: Reporting for duty, coach.
Estwynn: Alright then, now that things are settled we can...
Just then, a small, semi-portly Caucasian female with brown hair done in a side ponytail and black eyes covered by a pair of glasses wearing a lime green vest with assorted pins on it over a sea foam short sleeve shirt with pink capri pants and sparkling pink sneakers spoke up.
Beth Davis: Wait a minute, there are still 34 of us here, and Courtney is dealing with something for the student council, wouldn't we need to cut out 2 more people to make it an actual tournament?
Estwynn: Glad you asked that, Beth. The truth is that in this tournament, for one of you, there is no guaranteed spot into the next round.
Mike Abbrahm: What do you mean by that?
Estwynn: By that I mean that I have something special planed for 16th match of round 1: basically put, in match 16, whoever hasn't fought yet will compete in a free for all match where the winner will receive the final spot in round 2. We'll six to eight matches a day depending on how long each fight goes on for, and at the end of it all, the 16 of you left standing will go on to round 2. If there are no more questions, when I call your name, that means that it's your turn to fight. First up, Jay Coulson, one of our new recruits vs "Beardo" Bossely.
Jay: Are you kidding me?! Picked for the first match, this isn't going to end well for me.
Bison "Beardo" Bossely: Don't worry about it, man. I didn't win my first match either, so if you lose, you'll be among brothers.
Estwynn: Will both fighters please approach the arena for the first match.
Both players faced each other at opposite ends of the arena.
System Voice: GunPla battle, combat mode, start up. Model damage level set to "C". Please set your GP Base.
Both fighters placed their GP Bases in the predesignated areas.
Fighter: Jay Coulson
Unit: Gundam MK. 3
Builder/ Fighter: "Beardo" Bossely
Unit: Turn A Gundam
System Voice: Beginning Plavisky particle dispersal.
The blue particles began to descend upon the fighters as they surrounded them while the stadium created a space battlefield.
System Voice: Field 1: Space.
Jay: Well, this stuff passed the first test, I'm not having an allergic reaction to it, and I'm not dead.
System Voice: Please set your GunPla.
Jay set down his Gundam MK. 3 while "Beardo" set down a 1/144 High Grade For All System-W01 For All Gundam from the series "Mobile Suit Turn A Gundam" as both kits were bathed in a wave of particles and became active.
System Voice: Battle start.
Jay: Here goes something.
"Beardo": Let's rock this house.
Both units launched into the war zone at break neck speeds. Jay was having trouble controlling his Gundam, and was getting a bumpy ride as a result of it. Much to his surprise, his own opponent gave him the advice that he so desperately needed.
"Beardo": Dude, don't just try to control the kit, work with it, let your body move how it wants to without thinking about it.
Jay: Why would you give me advice, aren't we supposed to be fighting each other?
"Beardo": That may be true, but I can at least give you advice so that this can be as fair a fight as possible, can't I? If I'm fighting someone who's just getting into the game, the least I can do is help them be as close to my level as possible.
Jay had decided to take the risk of following his opponent's advice, and closed his eyes to let his body do the work of moving the machine, and in turn, he managed to get a smoother ride out of it.
"Beardo": See, what did I tell you? Rides a lot smoother now, doesn't it?
Jay: Yeah, thanks.
"Beardo": No prob. Now, let's get this fight really going.
It was then that Jay's Gundam MK. 3 was met with beam fire from the beam rifle of the For All Gundam with Jay barely being able to dodge the attacks before returning fire with his own beam rifle, all of the shots he fired were dodged however with the human soundboard making jet fighter and ricochet sound effects while dodging the assault. Both fighters had decided it was time to take the fight to close range as both units drew a beam saber with their right hands while "Beardo" made sound effects similar to that of your average "Star Wars" lightsaber. The two clashed blades for a short period of time until all of a sudden, Jay had stabbed the human soundboard's Gundam in the head.
System Voice: Battle ended. Winner: Jay Coulson.
The particles that surrounded them began to dissipate as both fighter were now made visible to everyone else again.
Jay: What just happened?
"Beardo": When a mobile suit's head unit is destroyed, the fight is automatically over, meaning you just won your very first GunPla battle.
Estwynn: He's right, the winner of the first match is Jay Coulson, he has earned a spot in the next round.
(Author's Note #2: Since there are going to be six battles in this chapter, and I want to put the most of my effort with the fights involving the twins, I'm just going to a quick summary of the next 4 fights in the terms of who's fighting, what units they use, what the battlefield looks like, and how the winner claims victory of the match. So, let's get started.)
Match 2: Gwen Harris (A modified 1/144 XXXG-01D Gundam Deathscythe modeled into its Hajime Katoki design with the black armor painted a dark orchid, the white painted midnight blue, and armed with a new custom built scythe) VS LeShauna DeVry (1/144 High Grade ZGMF-X23S Saviour Gundam) inside the same feudal Japaneses battlefield that Estwynn fought in in the last episode: Gwen uses her scythe to slash away at the Saviour Gundam while charging her special attack using the shadows cast by the moon, until she is hit dead through the center with LeShauna's beam rifle from midair, ending the match as the Deathscythe explodes.
Match 3: Cody Anderson (1/144 High Grade GAT-X105E Strike Noir Gundam armed with the I.W.S.P striker pack instead of the pack that it comes with) VS Dakota Milton (a modified 1/144 XXXG-01S2 Altron Gundam with an alternative set of wings on the backpack and armed with a double sided beam glave alongside its regular double sided beam trident) in a battlefield that was simulating a naval battle between two fleets of different ships: Dakota creates a ring of fire around her using her twin dragon fang flamethrowers to defend herself after Cody managed to destroy both her beam glave and trident, and manages to destroy Cody's beam boomerang and gatling gun shield in the process. Cody then manages to get above her and prepares to finish the job until Dakota shoots the Gundam using the back mounted beam cannons. The Strike Noir is downed as Dakota wins the match.
Match 4: Bridgette Sommers (a modified 1/144 High Grade MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam that had its original wings used as side skirt armor with a new pair of wings equipped with booster and missile pods from the 1/144 GunPla Battle Arms option part set replacing the old ones on the back) VS Beth Davis (a modified 1/144 High Grade AMX-094 Qubeley Version "Revive" with a new head unit, new back skirt armor, and a new beam baton as its main weapon) in a desert battlefield: Bridgette manages to outrace most of Beth's Fin Funnels until she is hit by one. The two units then clash beam sabers until the Qubeley has its head unit struck by one of Bridgette's beam sabers after the Qubeley manages to disable the Zeta's left arm with a beam saber of its own, the match ends with the Qubeley falling on its now non-existent face.
Match 5: Ella Muse (1/144 High Grade Extreme Gundam) VS Lindsay Handler (1/144 High Grade GPB-04B Bearrguy) inside of an abandoned city: Ella manages to gracefully dodge all of Lindsay's attacks with the match ending with the Bearrguy being tricked out of the arena to cause a ring-out. Ella manages to catch the kit in time as she wins the match, and a kiss on the cheek from her faesexual lover.
Estwynn: With five matches out of the way, and five fighters going into the next round, it is now time for the final fight of the day: Mickey Coulson vs Carrie Faeloh. Both fighters, please report to the stadium.
Mickey was met by a Caucasian female with curly neck length blonde hair and black eyes above freckled cheeks wearing a green long sleeved shirt with light blue jeans and black and white skate shoes.
Carrie Faeloh: Good luck out there, the first time is always the hardest. All of us would know that.
Mickey: Really?
Carrie: Yep, not everyone here was as skilled as they were now when we first made the club. In fact, most of us were pretty bad when it came to being amateurs. That was when Estwynn came along and taught us everything that we know today, by teaching us to fight with all of our effort put into it.
Jay: Just let your body move the kit the way it wants to without thinking like I did, I know that you can do it.
Mickey: Thanks for the support, I guess that I should get this fight over with.
System Voice: GunPla battle, combat mode, start up. Model damage level set to "C". Please set your GP Base.
Fighter: Mickey Coulson
Unit: Messala
Builder/ Fighter: Carrie Faeloh
Unit: GP-01fb
System Voice: Beginning Plavisky particle dispersal.
The particles surrounded both fighters as the battlefield became a canyon area during sunset.
Mickey: At least I'm not feeling any irritation from the particles.
System Voice: Field 9: Canyon. Please set your GunPla.
Mickey set down his Messala while Carrie set down a 1/144 High Grade RX-78GP-01fb Gundam Zephyerentes Full Burnen that was colored green where the white armor portions were, and a lighter shade of blue than the regular blue used with the kit where the blue should have been.
System Voice: Battle start.
Both units launched into the arena as the two sought each other out. Thanks to the advice given by his brother before the match, Mickey was having a fairly smooth ride from his Messala while in its "Wave Rider" mode. It was then that Carrie spotted her opponent and opened fire on him with her beam rifle. The helmed adversity twin did his best to dodge every shot he could until he got clipped on the tip his right wing binder pod, it was then that Mickey decided to transform his unit to mobile suit mode to take the offensive.
Mickey: My turn now.
The shoulders of the Messala opened to reveal a full salvo of missiles.
Mickey: Eat this!
Mickey then fired every one of his missiles at the GP-01 with Carrie evading as many as she could while shooting others with her beam rifle before they got too close for comfort. The tactic was successful for the most part with the only real damage done to her unit by the missiles being the destruction of her unit's shield. Mickey was in close pursuit of his opponent with beam saber drawn as Carrie led him to the floor of the canyon.
Carrie: Alright, let's settle this face to face.
Mickey: Fine by me.
Both units had a beam saber drawn as they charged towards one another, creating orange sparks whenever Carrie's red blade clashed with Mickey's yellow blade.
Jay: You can do it, Mickey. Show that Gundam who's boss.
Devin: Don't give up, homie. You got this in the bag.
Both fighters gave it their all as both units were using each of the two beam sabers at their disposal while others cheered them on. The clashes of the blades were fierce, the Plavisky sparks were flying, it could have been anyone's fight with Mickey using the Messala's full speed boost from his unit's binder pods to gain as much of an advantage as possible in the field of dodging blows while Carrie used her Gundam's fortitude and the speed of her backpack mounted booster pods to match the output of her opponent. Carrie then saw an opportunity for herself when Mickey overshot the speed and thrust of one of his strikes, and lost his mech's left binder pod because of it. Mickey then returned the favor by taking out the right booster pod of the GP-01 with his beam saber. The clashes continued to rage on as both fighters were now dual wielding their beam sabers with the intent to destroy one another with lethal efficiency. The maelstrom finally comes to an end with the GP-01 stabbing its left beam saber into the head unit of the Messala, thus ending the match.
System Voice: Battle ended. Winner: Carrie Faeloh.
the particles dissipated as both fighters and their supporters met with one another.
Carrie: That was a pretty good first try out there.
Mickey: Thanks, I never thought I would have survived as long as I did out there.
Devin: That was awesome, way to go you two.
Jay: Yeah, you did amazing out there, bro.
Estwynn: That was a very amazing first efforts from both of our new teammates indeed. It would also seem that our tournament has its first six fighters to move on to round 2, doesn't it, Katie and Sadie?
Katie: Yes, sir. Attention everyone, Sadie will now read off the first six fighters to move on to round 2.
Sadie: Moving on to round 2, we have Jay Coulson, LeShauna DeVry, Dakota Milton, Bridgette Sommers, Ella Muse, and Carrie Faeloh.
Estwynn: Alright then, congratulations to our two new recruits for putting up two amazing battles today. Now I'm going to announce the next 10 matches in advance that will take place over the course of tomorrow and the day after. Match 1: Harold McGrady VS Shawn Dixon. Match 2: Tyler Robinson VS Cameron Wilkons. Match 3: Ellody Bialli VS Owen Marshall. Match 4: Sky Farris VS Brick McArthur. Match 5: Brody Jennings VS Devin Wilcox. Match 6: Geoff Fisher VS Jasmine Tompson. Match 7: DJ Paul VS Samantha Saunders. Match 8: Trent Jameson VS Zoey Bale. Match 9: Leonard Wattson VS Dawn Hawthorne. And finally we have match number 10: the free for all match consisting of Sierra Gaffigan, Mike Abbrahm, Mary Corvino, "B" Smith, Sam Rogen, Tammy Lawson, Rodney Jacobs, and Courtney Pedroia for the final spot in the second round. Now then, I'm going to need some people to inform anyone who wasn't here today about their matches.
Gwen Harris: LeShauna, Bridgette and I can make sure that Courtney knows about her match and she can send the message to everyone else who wasn't here today.
Estwynn: Great, now if that's all there is, this meeting of the Wawanakwa High GunPla battle club is now closed. You are all free to go home or take care of anything else you need to deal with, have a nice evening, everyone.
With all said and done, everyone parted their separate ways as they went home for the evening. The adversity twins got a ride home from their mother, Bridgette gave LeShauna, Dawn and Ella a ride home in her blue 2008 Jeep, Sammy gave Sky a ride home on her black and red 2012 Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle, Dakota gave Sam and some of the others a carpool ride home in her limo, and so on.
Meanwhile, inside of an abandoned warehouse on the other side of town, a meeting was taking place among some of the members of Dark Avalon. The scoundrels were gathered around their leader, Eva Reznov as she sat on her throne as a Caucasian male with short back hair with a green Mohawk and blue eyes surrounded with various piercings wearing the Dark Avalon signature uniform over a black shirt with white sleeve portions in between the shirt's cuffs and the upper arm portion of the shirt that had the image of a cartoon-ish skull in the center with dark grey jean shorts and red sneakers approached the group.
Eva Reznov: This better be good, Duncan.
Duncan Reese: You think I would be wasting my time here if it wasn't?
Eva: True, what have you to report?
Duncan: Turns out those battle club losers are holding a tournament to get their skills up from the summer and by the looks of it, they got two new dweebs I never seen before fighting for them.
Scott: Don't tell me: scrawny, twins, one of them wears a crash helmet all of the time for some reason?
Duncan: Yeah. How do you know about these guys?
Scott: I was going to beat the tar out of those twerps on the first day of school until two of those battle club jackasses came and stopped me.
Jo Ridden: Weak, I could have taken on Fisher and Jennings and beaten them in a heartbeat, and you let them intimidate you into running away like a coward.
Heather Matsunaga: Oh, please. The only way you could have taken them down is if you flashed them your gross, man-ish body hair.
Jo: Shut your mouth, string bean before I shut it for you.
Heather: Make me, tranny.
Eva: Silence! You two can tear each other limb from limb only when I allow it. Regarding the increase in their forces, it is of no concern to me. They are just slightly larger specs in a sea of other, smaller insignificant specs. We will decimate them all in due time but until then, I want you to keep an eye on those battle club fools both on and off of the battlefield. For the glory of the crown!
All other Dark Avalon Members (Who will be revealed in future episodes): For the glory of the crown!
The group partook in some maniacal laughter as the scene then shifts from the outside of the warehouse to an overhead shot of Muskouka as the episode comes to an end.
(Ending Theme: US Ending from "Gundam Wing")
Jay: So other than the other fighters we've seen, we have to deal with ninjas, pirates, samurai, zombie hunters, martial artists, tacticians, knights, and "Duel Monsters" cards turned into GunPla?
Carrie: Pretty much.
Ella Muse: Don't worry, after all, it's only just a game where no one is really in harm's way. At least that's what Sir Dawn told me.
LeShauna: Next time: "Battle Fever G".
Geoff: Dudes, the first round is getting intense.
(Author's note #3: There you have it, episode 2 of "TDBF" is done, the GunPla battles are getting cranked into high gear, and you got your first taste of Dark Avalon's attitude towards the war all in one episode. I might do six or eight of the battles listed in the next episode and save the big free for all for episode 4. If anyone wants some trivia concerning character names, episodes, GunPla, or anything "TDBF" related, please leave your response in either the review section or send me a private message and if the overall demand is high enough for me, I will put it in before the start of the next episode. Until then, DSX62415, out.)