Revelations
Disclaimer: I don't own GBF or OCs used. It belongs to Sunrise and they belong to their owners.
"Give me another minute!" Done with that. "I'm coming back in! Cherudim, Kale Cassel, locked and… Monica, what do you want?"
She gave me a hesitant look before backing up. "Don't lose your Gunpla."
I couldn't help but smile. "Oi, this is the president of the school's anime/Gunpla club you're talking to." I turned back to my monitor. "Locked and loaded!"
How did I get involved in this? How did I even convince myself to do this even though it involved the one person who would be my "lover"? I have to do this for the club's sanity, even if costs mine.
"You three still alive?"
"YES YOU IDIOT!"
"All right, jeez… Keep your eyes up!"
"HOW ABOUT DOWN!?" The Heavyarms fired its beam gatling gun at Seravee and 00 Raiser but both responded with GN Fields.
"Such a crude attack." Kaila went on with "You are unworthy of piloting Trowa Barton's Heavyarms. In fact, I'll deal you a thousand deaths!" Kaila charged the GN Bazooka IIs, but a coordinated attack with the Deathscythe, Shenlong and Sandrock interrupted her. Each of the three took turns hacking at Seravee's GN Field.
The Deathscythe took one more swipe before Raymond collided with it. "Your opponent is me!" Raymond dragged the Deathscythe out of the immediate combat area into another part of field.
Shenlong's pilot said to Sandrock "Zero-Four! Focus your attack on the opposite end!"
"You got it!"
Darren dashed in with Arios' scissor slightly open so that it would collide with Sandrock. "If you think that you can do that willy-nilly…" Oh god. "THEN I'LL JUST HAVE TO KILL YOU!" Darren opened the scissor all the way and took the Sandrock by the waist like how Allelujah/Hallelujah destroyed Hiling's Garazzo and proceeded with cutting Sandrock in half.
"Stupid little… Dare to do that to my Sandrock and you PAY!" Zero-Four or Quarto, not that I personally know him or anything, used the Cross Crusher function of the heat shotels, backpack and shield and took Arios in.
"AHAHAHAHA! If you think this will do me in, then you're wrong! TRANS-AM!" Arios turned red and even redder than I thought was possible… My god Darren, overload Trans-Am? "AHAHAHAHA! DIE!" And like the idiot he is, he went down in flames.
"Kaila, will you be alright fighting Shenlong?"
"Yep… I'll just blast him to death."
"HOW ABOUT FIGHTING ME GODDAMNIT!?" Heavyarms kept charging in and firing the beam gatling gun.
"Tch… give it up Heavyarms!" Shield bits in assault mode, GN Pistol IIs drawn and ready! Heavyarms and I traded shots, all of them missed their intended target. I decided to be bold, despite the fact that Cherudim isn't a close-range unit. I closed the distance and truth be told, Heavyarms didn't do a thing because he either didn't see me coming or he was paying attention to something else, and I think it was the latter, because when one of my GN Pistol IIs reached Heavyarms, a beam came from the left and took the right arm off.
"You little… you'll pay for that!" It's like I'm not even here. I decided to look in the direction he was looking and saw the source of his little tantrum.
"Sadalsuud Type F Agios? Monica?"
"BITCH!" Heavyarms charged and aimed its beam gatling gun. I took my sniper rifle and fired at Heavyarms. After dodging the beam, Heavyarms turned and charged at me. "OUT OF MY WAY!" One thing was for sure, he was not worthy to use Triton… er I mean Trowa Barton's Heavyarms.
"Cherudim, target locked on and firing!" I seemingly fired at the same time Monica did which resulted in Heavyarms being penetrated twice and destroyed.
"GODDAMNIT!"
I couldn't help but feel sorry for Nanashi (it isn't his real name, but he does it because it's him). I turned and went to Monica's position. When I did, I put "my hand" on Monica's shoulder and asked her "What are you doing? Seth is doing this because of your father's Gunpla. Doesn't that mean anything to you?" She said nothing and when she looked at me, I gave up with convincing her and allowed her to stay in the battle. "Alright, follow my lead and stay behind me." I turned around and proceeded into the center where Kaila would be. I checked behind me every so often to see if Monica was staying with me and I thought to myself that this was crazy, but it's for the sanity of the club, even at the cost of mine. As we passed a couple of meteors, the warning signal came to life. "Hold up, something to our… left." The warning kept jumping around and the two things I could think of was Deathscythe's jamming system (not likely because that would probably require Plavsky particles), and the 00 Raiser's quantization (which would require Plavsky particles, Trans-Am Raiser - which has been installed on 00 Raiser – and extreme focus). The latter was most likely but the most insane because Raymond wouldn't use it unless he needed a quick get-away or he needed to get the upper hand. 00 Raiser just popped in with a Deathscythe and Shenlong on his tail. "Raymond! Quantize again!"
"Can't… took too… much out… of me. Cover me… while I use… a GN Field." If you're still in Trans-Am and use a GN Field, you'll just run out of particles faster.
"All right, cancel… huh?" Agios funnels came from nowhere… not nowhere because they came from the Agios wings on the Sadalsuud Type F Agios… I really need to abbreviate that to something else… and started firing randomly.
"What do we do?!" Deathscythe's pilot asked Shenlong as they both dodged the funnel fire.
"Stand still and die!" That voice came from the left and it belonged to Kaila. "GN Bazooka, Hyper Burst mode! Releasing high-density particles!" The blast came by quickly and finished the two Operation Meteor Gundams as quickly as it came and went. "There, now the battle is over."
"It's still going on Kaila. Seth, who was sitting on his high chair, stayed back the entire match thinking that we would be finished before he had to do anything." I did a full 360 and nothing. "Wherever he is, it won't take a while."
"Because I've got a buster rifle!" The warning signal indicated something above. "And I'll shoot all four of you down!" He fired and it was bright.
"Everyone, Trans-Am or GN Fields!" And not quite what I expected, we went to Kaila and took refuge in Seravee's GN Field, but Raymond, because he was out cold, didn't move at all and got 00 Raiser destroyed. "Damn it Raymond! Damn you Seth!"
"Heh, it's survival of the fittest and all that, dear sniper. So, how does me taking that GN Field out sound to you? It doesn't matter because I'll just do it anyway." Seth fired the buster rifle multiple times with each shot interval becoming longer.
"All right, move!" Monica and I moved out in time but as Kaila was going to move, Seth fired another shot. "Kaila!" When the shot finally cleared, Seravee was not there. "DAMN IT!"
"Trans-Am!" Huh, Sadalsuud can use it?
"Ho, rushing to your death? Very well, have it!" Seth fired in her direction, but she dodged it in time. "Tch, again!" Seth fired another shot to which Monica dodged again. This went on until Monica got behind Wing Zero and restrained it by holding the arms back. "What the… what're you planning?!"
"Kale, shoot now!"
"But… I can't…"
"YES YOU CAN!" She raised her voice and got all commando on me. "What's more important? One Gunpla that's run its course or a Gunpla that can still be useful!?"
God damn it. "You win. Trans-Am!"
Seth started laughing as I took aim. "Ha! I win! You couldn't save this Gunpla!"
Shut up you little shit. "NERAI UTSU ZE!" The sniper rifle charged the shot and fired a wide blast due to it being done in Trans-Am. The shot pierced Seth's Wing Zero and Monica's Sadalsuud Type F Agios in the chest which caused a double explosion which had some GN Particles mixed in the resulting smoke.
"Battle ended." When the particles receded into the battle system, the whole club was standing around the ten of us.
Seth, taking a step back and acting as if he just won, said "Well, I'll be taking my leave." He grabbed what was left of his Wing Zero and started out the room.
"Come back here you little ASS!" I marched straight for him and when he turned around he fell to the ground. I held my fist up. "Never come in here again. Zero-Two through Zero-Five, take him out of here." The four I was referring to was Seth's posse and they took him by the arms and dragged him out.
"Kale." Monica stepped out in front of me and bowed. "I'm sorry for causing a ruckus. I'll be leaving."
"Wait… Your father's Sadalsuud Type F Agios, can I see it?" She took the remains and gave it to me. After close inspection, I determined that "Normal builders would say that it's irreparable, but I'm not a normal builder." After taking Monica back into the room and to one of the back tables where Darren and Kaila waited with a slightly unconscious Raymond on the couch, I took out the repair kit I used earlier.
Monica asked me sadly "Why are you doing this?"
"Because you made me shoot a legendary Gunpla and I feel obligated to fix it." I went to work. "It's hard to find any 00P or 00F (A/N's: 00 Prologue or 00 Fereshte) Gunpla kits or anything dedicated to repairs of those kits." I stopped for a second and she was paying close attention… "So, what brought you to the club?"
There was awkward silence until someone who looked like Italy from Hetalia: Axis Powers said "Pasta."
The whole club, who was watching and listening intently heard this, they responded with "SHUT UP ITALY!"
"But my name isn't…"
The club did the same thing. "SHUT UP ITALY!"
I groaned at the shenanigans that happen during club… meanwhile, I went back to repairing Monica's Gunpla. "I came to this club for peace and quiet while I looked at my Sadalsuud Type F Agios."
That sentence didn't make sense. "It's your Sadalsuud Type F Agios?"
"It's actually called DRAGOON Sadalsuud."
"DRA…GOON Sadalsuud? Then it isn't your father's Gunpla?"
"It is, but because I've watched my father build it, I can easily build replicas of it."
"What do you have, eidetic memory?" She looked at me as if I was a freak. "Sorry."
"Anyways…" She paused for a second as if something was still troubling her.
"What is it this time?"
"What you're doing is gratuitous, and not to mention the worn-out joints."
Worn-out joints, what're you… Oh those worn-out joints. How did I not notice those worn-out joints? "How old is this Gunpla?"
She said the most ridiculous thing with the straightest face ever. "7 years."
"7 years? Are you… if it's been that long, then why hasn't it broken into pieces?"
"I haven't used it at all for Gunpla Battle. Today's battle was its first battle."
"Are. You. Kidding. Me? For 7 years, you've never used this Gunpla for Gunpla Battle? Where were you the last 7 years?"
"At the prestigious Gunpla Academy in Japan."
"You mean… the one where not even the most skilled builder in the world could get in?"
"That's the one."
"You… then that means you could've handled Seth before Raymond and I got in."
"Not really. I was good enough to get in, but I was the runt of the litter, if you will."
"That's where you have me confused: if you were at the Gunpla Academy, then why were you the runt of the litter?"
"One of our teachers was the third Meijin Kawaguchi, so all the classes, whichever class in whichever year, vied for his attention and when he would try to approach the runts of the classes, the others would immediately block his path. It was very competitive in terms of getting his attention."
"I still don't see how that makes you the runt of the litter."
"Kawaguchi was the best teacher, so whenever he was busy teaching the ones who forcibly got his attention, we were stuck with Eleanora McGovern. And she was the worst. Her teaching style was like the second Meijin Kawaguchi's fighting style, plus she had a murderous aura about her."
I pondered on that for a minute while the only audible sound was me putting together joints and other parts. "It sounded like hell."
"It was hell: she said that there were no second chances and that you had to get it right the first time, but even then it wasn't enough. She wanted us to be ruthless fighting machines and I couldn't do it."
"So what did she do?"
"She had the whole class, 32 students, fight me at the same time." At the time, she was using a stock Gundam Exia.
The year after the 7th Gunpla Battle World Championship, Meijin Kawaguchi spent time around the Gunpla Academy campus, teaching students how to be better but most of all, to have fun. He didn't know about the 32v1 match when it went on and when he did, it was almost too late.
"Monica Crain, Exia, launching." Already, I was faced with a V2 Gundam.
"Newbie, just drop out of the academy!"
"You don't understand my circumstances!" I fired off three shots from the rifle of the GN Sword. The V2 maneuvered out of the way to allow a Blue Frame with D equipment through. "Stop this please!" I charged with the sword and pierced the Blue Frame with ease because her Blue Frame's frame was shot to hell. A Sinanju came by and fired its rifle five times to which I dodged all of the shots which went through a Gabthley, Alex, GINN, Hobby Hizack and a Daughtress Neo.
"You little, stop moving around so much!"
"No way! Have you guys even stopped to consider why you've been allowed into the academy!?"
"Only to become the best fighter!" A GOUF Ignited and a Gunner ZAKU Warrior came out and fired their heavy weapons. I took both shots with both shields with the GN Sword still intact, but my main shield was gone. I retaliated by throwing GN Daggers at the heads of the two ZAFT units. I then went to the ZAKU Warrior and took its shield until I could find a suitable replacement. Then a Lightning Strike came in and fired its Electro-magnetic cannon which leveled five buildings that three people were taking cover in.
Professor Eleanora piped in. "Come on you idiots! Take out that Exia!"
"Professor, what's the point of this?!" I asked her.
"To punish you, if you don't comply with my lessons, you get a special lesson, just for you."
The Lightning Strike took out its Armor Schneider knives and charged me. I pulled the ZAKU Warrior's shield in front and fired the rifle again, this time to kill. "I'm sorry!"
The V2 came back with a Banshee Norn and fired off shots that would've melted the ZAKU's shield had I not dodged the shots. "Hey, stay still!"
I took the tomahawk in the shield and tossed it at the V2 while his back was turned. The V2 went down, but it still moved to fire at me. The Banshee Norn went behind me and fired its beam magnum at the same time. I turned around and took the magnum shot with the ZAKU shield and threw the GN Short Sword at the V2's shot. Then I turned around to the face the V2 and fired one shot at it before the Banshee bear hugged Exia. "That was a fancy move, but it cost you!"
"Didn't you pay attention in tactics class?" I took the GN Sword while it was still in rifle mode and pressed to the Norn's chest and switched it to sword mode. The result was the Norn was cut in half down the middle and I kept moving. "How much longer are they going to keep at me?" 17 fighters left, all out to get me and to get Professor Eleanora's approval. I came across a wide, open street that had big buildings with enough space in between to hide the rest of them and I was right.
"Give it up Newbie! You're surrounded and you can't get out of our circle!" True to half of what he said, the remaining fighters moved to cover any potential escape holes I had.
"And what if I don't!?"
"Simple… FIRE!" I went through weapon selection and selected the special weapon. Exia turned red and before their shots even got halfway the distance, I turned back the way I came and cut through the Sinanju that I encountered earlier. I then went and cut up every Gunpla on the field.
"You guys made me do this!"
The battle would've ended there, but Professor Eleanora came in with a customized v Gundam that had an Aile Striker pack on and it had two weapons that I've never seen before. "You idiots… I never thought that I'd take care of this naughty girl, just like that naughty boy from the Technical class." Professor Eleanora had that aura and I got scared that I didn't move. "Ho, are you scared now? Then I'll teach you what it means to Gunpla Battle." The v Gundam boosted towards me and that snapped me back into reality. I moved back, away from Professor Eleanora but she beat me to the punch and used a longsword that was attached to the left armament to cut Exia's right arm.
"No!" I took the GN Long Blade and blocked Professor Eleanora's attacks.
"Good, I like your fear Crain! It makes me want to use the rail gun!" True to her word, a rail gun came out of the left armament and she fired it while my left side was facing her. Exia took a bad hit, but it still had part of its arm. I started to move away again, but she fired a machine gun that was on the left armament, which I realized was a gun holder, at Exia's legs which prevented me to get away on my legs. I would've moved by thrusting, but I was afraid she would shoot the GN Drive, so I stayed put. "Huh, you're not going to flee again?" She took a sword that was somehow attached to the Aile Striker pack and aimed it at Exia's chest. "Well, this'll teach you to not disobey me!" She drove the sword down and I closed my eyes, waiting for the end.
"Moe agare, Exia! Trans-Am!" The Amazing Exia came in and sent the v Gundam flying away. He turned and looked at me. "Are you alright?"
"Ka-Kawaguchi-sensei."
"Kawaguchi! You're not to interfere in my lessons, or do you want me to give that lesson I never gave you?"
"Professor Eleanora, you're not to… v Gundam Brave. What is going on Eleo!?"
I could've sworn I heard Professor Eleanora's brain pop. "Eleo? You're asking for it TATSUYA!" The v Gundam Brave charged the Amazing Exia while it discarded the frame, due to this reduction in weight, the v Gundam Brave accelerated to the point where you looked at it one second and it was on the other side of the map in another. Kawaguchi-sensei had no trouble keeping with it somehow.
"How dare you use my Gunpla from my childhood years?!" So Kawaguchi-sensei built it… no wonder he could keep up with it.
"How dare I? Blame the ditzy girl who dragged this mess out!"
"You can't blame someone for not doing what you ask in order to protect their love of Gunpla! Julian-senpai left the academy and Gunpla Battle in order to protect his love of Gunpla! It's admirable for her too to protect her love of Gunpla!" Amazing Exia fired off three shots at the v Gundam Brave which Professor Eleanora dodged.
"Love of Gunpla? You make me barf! Gunpla is only used for victory, just like the second Meijin did!"
"The second Meijin was the monster he was because Chairman Mashita told him to be like that! All three Meijins who became Meijin Kawaguchi did it because they wanted to spread the feelings they had when someone taught them about Gunpla!" Amazing Exia charged with two swords wielded.
"You would never understand because you're still a softie! It's for that very reason that you'll never destroy your precious v Gundam, even if it's being used by me!"
"Tch… I'll show you what I can do about that!" Amazing Exia slashed with the dark sword to which the v Gundam Brave blocked. The dark sword froze the two armaments that was used to block. Amazing Exia then slashed with the GN Sword and broke the two armaments. "Forgive me, Toru." Then he inserted both blades into the v Gundam Brave's frame and slashed sideways to pull the blades out of the frame. The v Gundam Brave exploded and that was the end of the battle.
"Battle ended."
After she finished that story of that "special lesson", she looked straight at the DRAGOON Sadalsuud. "You finished with it?"
I didn't respond for a second because I was still trying to process what she just told me… "I'm sorry what? Yeah I'm done with it." With that, the day was over and time to go home.
Only if something else didn't happen. When I was just across the street, ready to take a left onto my street, I heard a guy trying to bother a girl, and guess who that girl was. It was Monica… and as crazy as I might've been, I went back to get that guy off of her. I was just a couple of feet away when I could hear what the oaf was saying to her. "C'mon, I know you have that kick-ass Gunpla. Just give it to me and no one gets hurt." Monica, ever the silent person she is, gripped her bag even tighter than she was just a minute ago. "Fine, you forced me." He ripped her arms away from her bag and he searched it for, what I assumed to be, the DRAGOON Sadalsuud. When he didn't find it, he took a good look at Monica. "Ho, so you were looking for attention. So be it, don't mind if I do!"
Had I not intervened, he would've ravaged Monica's body for her Gunpla and for the hell of it. "Hey! Step away from her and you don't get hurt!"
"Back away Cassel. If I remember correctly, you wanted nothing to do with her, so why would you want to stop me?"
"It's against my morals to abandon someone who's being assaulted by an idiot like you."
"You asked for it." He rolled up his sleeves and went straight for a right hook. I moved way out to the right and spun around him to hook his left leg and kick him off balance. "Stand still so you can get a beating!" He went for a left hook. I took my elbow and hit the curve of his arm, then I proceeded to punch him in the gut.
"I never wanted to resort to fisticuffs in the same day. You're lucky I held back." I stared at Monica and shook my head in utter disappointment in myself. After I finished penalizing myself, I helped Monica put her stuff back in her bag. "You alright?" She nodded. "Where're you going?" She looked at me as if I was going to stalk her. "Look, I'm just going to walk you to wherever you need to go, so just tell me." I got a call from my mother so I excused myself for a minute. "Yeah mom?"
"Where are you?"
"I'm right by the school crosswalk with the exchange student."
"Is her name Monica Crain?"
"Ye… where are you going with this mom?" She had better not told whoever it is that she would take Monica in.
"I took Monica in because she was…"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!"
"Don't take that tone with me young man! It's happening, whether you like it or not."
"Call whoever it is you have to call and tell them you can't do it!"
"Just get her over here for dinner. I'll handle the rest."
She hung up on me. "Wait, you can't just… hello? Hello?" I closed my phone. "Damn it mom." I turned around and looked at Monica. "Looks like you'll be crashing at my house. Come on." After waiting for the traffic lights to turn red, we walked across the street twice to get to the other side of the street and onto my street. Then we passed a couple of houses to get to my house. "This is it… a regular two-story building in a cheap, but friendly neighborhood." I walked up the steps, put the keys in, turned the lock and opened the door. "After you." After she hesitantly went in, I walked in after her and announced "I'm home!"
"Welcome home Kale!" A jovial voice responded and the owner of that voice was, of course, my mother. "And this must be Monica!"
Monica stared at me for a second before shaking my mother's hand. "Hello, it's nice to be your acquaintance."
"Oh she's so polite! She would make a good girlfriend for you Kale."
"ACK! Mom, don't kid about that. I'm getting enough flak at school as it is."
"Sorry sweetheart. By the way, your father and little brother are home, so be sure to introduce our guest to them."
"Hai…" I dragged Monica upstairs to greet my little brother Lyle, which is pretty funny (in my parents' eyes) considering the fact that I like Lyle Dylandy, and my dad who kinda looks like Leonardo DiCaprio. "Sorry my mother is so jovial, she was raised to be extremely jovial and warm to people."
"It's okay… I think it's nice."
"Heh, you're the first person to actually say that about my mother." After I dragged her along for a few more minutes, I found Lyle and my dad in his room, where dad was teaching Lyle about how to properly cut the poly-caps from the mold. "Dad, Lyle! I brought back our guest."
My dad was the first one to take notice. "Oh, Monica is it? Welcome to our house! Lyle, say hello to our guest."
Lyle, always the slow one, put the mold and nippers down to greet Monica. "Hello! My name is Lyle!"
Monica, who I never figured to be a hugger, hugged Lyle. "Monica, what're you doing?"
She looked at me and then to my dad and then to Lyle. She got up and bowed. "I'm sorry." AGAIN WITH THE FORMALNESS.
My dad was the one who broke the awkward silence. "All right, maybe it's time we took a break and eat dinner hm?"
After a completely Monica-centered dinner conversation, I went up to my room and took a long shower. When I came out, Monica was standing right outside my bathroom door. "WHAT'RE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM!?"
"Your mother told me I'm bunking in your room."
"Okay, well first of all you can't sleep in my room. Second, it's not right for a male and female to sleep in the same room."
"Your mother said there was no other option." Damn it mom…
"Fine, but don't touch my Gunpla."
Kale: Why did my life take a turn for the worse?
Monica: Because your mother decided to take me in.
Raymond: At least it's not as if some famous Gunpla battlers from some part of the country are going to visit our school for an exhibition match.
Darren: Next time, "Saviour VS Arios"
Athrun: This'll be a transformable match.
Author's Notes: Still slightly pissed, but otherwise I'm still writing. If you have read the GBF Amazing manga, then you know who I was referring to during the flashback.
