Love Rivalry Part 1
Disclaimer: I don't own GBF or OCs used; it belongs to Sunrise and to their owners.
I always wished for a life where I didn't have to deal with shit like this. Just take it with a pinch of salt Kale, and get it over with.
"You'll see me duel our school's one and only Nathaniel Tate." And hopefully not get my Gunpla beaten to a plastic "bloody" pulp. Luckily, I took a pair of GN Sword IIs… the funny thing is, I planned for my own version of the GN Sword II Kais to be in the next unit. Anyways, it took a while because Nate didn't have a personal Gunpla on him and so he had to choose from the many kits we had; in the end, he chose to build an AGE-FX… that will take a lot of effort to get around based on the number of C-Funnels Nate could use, especially with the AGE-FX's well-rounded abilities.
"Please set your GP Base."
"Before we actually start the battle, I want to let you know that everything you'll do is futile. It's best if you give up now." My god, you had to say that Nate.
"You can say what you want, but it won't faze me."
"Beginning Plavsky particle dispersal." The particles separated us and left us to our own thoughts. "Field 3, Forest. Please set your Gunpla." As we did, I noticed three other people gathering around the battle system and copied our actions. "Battle start."
"AGE-FX, mokuhyou o haijo suru!"
"Zabanya SAGA, hasshin suru!"
Monica and I were walking down the street, eating some froyo, and she was still arguing about how worse Nate has gotten… that's not even a legitimate argument because he was always this bad. "I mean, sure it's fine for him to overreact at the locker myth, but he can't overreact like that! No matter how stupid it is, he can't just do that!" Yeah, she's right about one thing, even though she never said it: he's stupid.
"Well, the way he did carry out the battle, it was cowardly… I think."
"Cowardly? Like I said, it was idiotic." We walked the rest of the way home in silence. When we got to the front door, Lyle opened it for us and we just charged past him. "I mean, seriously, where the hell does he get the gall to pull off that stunt?"
"Are you done rage-arguing about Nate? I really need to get repair work done."
"Shouldn't you get your homework done first?"
"Who are you, my mom?" Oh god, bad one. "Besides, I already did so while you were busy picking out flavors and toppings for froyo." I took the Z-SAGA out and looked at the charred, stubby ends that were its arms. "Damn it, because I had to get in close, I got these stubby ends."
"It's your fault Kale. If you hadn't gotten in close, it would still have its arms." True, but it's still a problem. If I don't come up with alternate forms of CQC, Z-SAGA and its descendants wouldn't last long. "Anyways, would you help me with a design?"
"It's rare for you to ask me something like that, but sure." She walked me through her basic design, additional details she might add, weaponry, defenses all the nine yards when I finally started to think about my deal with Nate. Only then was I blushing and started to avoid eye-contact with Monica.
"What is it?"
"Nothing; it's nothing." It must not have gotten through as truth because Monica was giving me the same that Alice gave me just a few hours ago.
"Look, if it's because of what you and Nate decided to duel on, I don't care; I'll marry who I want to marry and this doesn't affect my friendship with you."
I blinked for a couple of seconds. "Since when were we friends?"
"When I just said what I just said."
"Okay." Soon enough, we all went to sleep, but I kept thinking about the battle from earlier. I closed my eyes and replayed the rest from when Monica intervened.
After I replayed the end again and again, Monica shook me a couple of times because she wanted me to try something she made in Foods class. Like that wasn't a sign of love… but whatever, it's free food. After she stuffed it in my mouth, I chewed on the end that was in my mouth and took the hanging end out while I swallowed the chewed morsels of the food. "Bloody hell it's good. What is it?"
"It's a Korean recipe for what seems to be a rice paste… I don't remember the name for it because it's Korean, but it's really good isn't it?"
"Yeah… it's good."
Later, Dad called us for an announcement… I swear everytime he says he has an announcement, it's just for random crap, but this time I was proven wrong. "So, wanna guess as to what I'm about to say kids?"
Lyle and I, knowing what the usual answer was, said nothing, but Monica was interested. "What is it?"
"Well, there's a convention every year to celebrate the World Tournament in one of the participating countries, so guess what, the convention is coming to us in America!"
"BIG DEAL DAD. There's only a one-in-fifty chance that it'll come to Maryland."
"As it so happens, it's coming to Maryland."
Lyle and I, who were happily sipping on some Coke, blew the drink out the window. "WHAT!?"
Dad now had this smug look on his face. "Well, if you want to go there Kale, you're going to have to win the Maryland Nationals."
"I'm not usually impressed by your 'announcements' Dad, but you pulled this one over my eyes." This just means that I will win the Maryland Nationals!
Dad, Lyle and Monica looked at me as if my eyes had a fiery soul to them, and it felt like it did. "Now son, what are you going to do?"
"WIN THE MARYLAND NATIONALS!"
"That's my son. Monica, I hope you'll help him."
"That has already been decided Dad, and, against my own will, she will be helping the team."
With that being said, why don't we skip ahead to future time? The school year passed by quickly, our club had our events, in which Nate tried again to win Monica's trust which I must say is pretty much useless because Monica is dead-set against giving him her trust and thus re-ignited our rivalry for Monica… I don't even get why he wants her to be his… move on and forget that Kale; we had our homecoming and prom and to both I asked Monica to because why the hell not and I figured if Nate and I are to be rivals, then it wouldn't hurt to piss him off even more. During the breaks, the team and I practiced fighting as a group just like the Meisters did in tandem with Sumeragi Lee Noriega directing them with her tactics. My family was invited to my older sister's wedding (and because she wanted to meet Monica, she also invited Monica to the wedding). My older sister made fun of me like she usually does because it's so rare to see me with a girl… I swear she reacts to everything as if she had dreamed of the exact moment that this would occur… I really hate my sister by the way. When we had club meetings, Nate and Jack would attend each and every meeting because Nate dragged Jack to try and retrieve Monica's trust and everything… Nate is also actually going to school for once which is the scary part.
Anyways, a few days before graduation, the club had its last meeting and it was just a free-for-all day: Gunpla Battles and Gunpla Construction/Customization classes, also watching random anime as much as we could before the last meeting was over and thus, getting ready for graduation. On this day, both Nate and I had one last match not of battles, but of building. We were to build a Gunpla that was literally up to Monica and we had two options: SD or standard. I chose to build SD and Nate chose to build a standard Gunpla. The Gunpla we were to build was a Zeta Gundam that incorporated parts of the Ootori Striker and the Re-GZ Custom; it was about an hour or so when we finished building the Re-Zeta Ootori Custom and Monica observed and judged each of the two Gunpla: she deemed that both were built with above-par skills, even if there are different weapons the unit is well balanced out because of the transformation abilities of the Re-Zeta Ootori Custom and due to the fact that despite being HG, the Gunpla can move like MG. However, she then went on to explain that only one would really gain her attention and that one was the SD Re-Zeta Ootori Custom; Nate of course was furious, but he said that there was next time and he just doesn't know when to take a hint. On another note, she designated the Gunpla as RZO-916+EW454FB. As the last day of club was coming to a close, I asked Monica why she chose my SD RZO instead of Nate's HG RZO: she said "Yours was built for fun whereas Nate built it to impress me… no one will get anywhere by building to impress." Not true, this time I was seeking to impress, just a bit. "Anyways, time to close down shop huh?"
"I guess." The time to graduation went by fairly fast and the only notable thing was that Yajima would do another visit to America since Nils Nielsen is the head of their team. Before graduation, we just finished our first preliminary round and obviously we passed it with flying colors. This is now after graduation.
"My god, graduation was a tough thing to bear!"
"Well Darren, you can't always have a fast event."
"That's only because I'm a fast person Kaila!"
"Yeah right." As Darren and Kaila argued about the rest trip, Raymond, Monica and I made plans for tomorrow seeing as the second round was tomorrow.
"Well, we should all meet up at around 11 AM to sort out any last details and to get some quick notes about any prospective enemies."
"Good observation Raymond, but we also need to make sure that our tactics officer doesn't slack off like last time."
"That's unfair Kale, you didn't bug me during that morning!"
"Moving on…" The next day came by in a blink.
"Kale, wake up you lazy idiot." I lay in bed for a minute just to piss her off. "WAKE UP!"
"I'm up, I'm up lady." We ate a small breakfast to adjust for time and we rushed through the various streets to get to the tournament center.
"You guys are almost late! You even told us what time to meet!"
Monica replied with "That was Raymond, not me." Raymond threw his hands up in the air to gesture "what the hell?" Anyways, we all went in because we all had done our checks before coming here.
We just came to the stage before we saw some action. "Because attendees and fighters come in late, we will replay fights during and after today's battles." Thanks for that announcement mysterious person who inhabits the PA system…
I looked on the several monitors that were set up and saw something weird: Exia, Dynames, Kyrios and Nadleeh were all in Trans-Am against a Phantom Gundam from the Crossbone Gundam Ghost manga… it's dodging everything that the four 3rd generations are throwing at it. The Phantom Gundam is supposed to be inferior to V2 Gundam, so why is it superior to the 3rd generations in Trans-Am? I closed my eyes for one moment and I saw who I thought was behind the cockpit… I actually started shaking from the fear that the pilot instilled in me back then… "Battle ended." It wasn't even one minute before the person that I feared come up to us.
"So, how are my two favorite victims?" Darren and I turned around and saw her: Jane Bard, the one who practically ruined our lives. Everything came back at once and I ran to the nearest trash can and did quite a number on it. "Well, there's no need to be that dramatic dearest Kale!"
Darren, who was usually "fearless", turned around and said nothing but "Leave us alone Bard."
"Why, because you two got beaten so badly by me?" She walked away from Darren and to me. "I hope you're ready for round two of our 'play date'." She laughed demonically. "And you shouldn't be hanging around with these rejects: a Seiei wannabe who falls so easily from heavy fighting, a flat-chested girl who is slow as a snail both on the field and in the bedroom, and a reject whose parents were killed because of a slight infraction with their 'posse'."
"BITCH!" Kaila is ever so loud. "I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Jane walked out nonchalantly and stuck the middle fingers towards us as she exited the building.
Monica broke the silence. "Who was she?"
Everyone else stayed silent, so it fell upon me to enlighten her. "That is Jane Bard, the one who almost killed Darren and me, and the one who caused Darren to lose his split personality."
Raymond: An arc has just ended.
Kaila: And a new one has just begun.
Kale: And all this time we've been trying to forget about that day.
Darren: And now we will have to relive it in order to go forward in our future.
Monica: Just what happened on "that day"?
Kale: Next time, "Love Rivalry Part 2".
Jane: Be ready for my love song!
A/N's: Sorry this chapter was a bit shorter than usual, I'm trying to increase the word count, but my writing juices fell a bit short this time. Also, sorry about the update date, I was busy with other things.
