"Kira Yamato/Suletta Mercury!" - Normal Text.
"Strike/Aerial!" - Some Random-Ass Bold Text That I Put Just To Make It Look Cool When Other Fanfics Do It Cuz Why Not Text.
"Launching!" - Thinking Text.
"Bruh" - Comms/Mic/TV Audio/ZOOM Meeting/Flashback Text
"So you're still alive." Belmeria started.
"I've always had the devil's luck. Metaphorically and physically. You know who I'm talking about." Prospera joked as she looked back to her former junior at Vanadis, "And since when do you work with Peil Technologies, Bel?"
"I had... no other choice." Belmeria said as Prospera approached her.
Prospera then called her, "So you're the one carrying on the Vanadis legacy."
"The machine called Aerial... There's no way you built it on your own. And the fact that it's obvious that it's built based on the Strike. What are you planning to do?" Bermelia said, demanding answers, "Why have your own daughter pilot it? Why is Kira-kun here?"
Prospera then deflects the answer, "You're much more talkative than I remember."
"It's no use taking revenge for a 21-year-old-"
"How many have there been?" Prospera cut her off, referencing Elan, and then she walked away. But she paused for a bit and looked back to her former junior, "And stop with the drop the revenge act. You're just like Kira-kun and Wendy." This surprised Belmeria, the fact that Wendy also survived, "Nice to see you after so long. Until we meet again."
As Prospera left, she called her employee, "Yes. The witch is under the wing of Peil Technologies... As expected, we smoked her out... What about the Striker Packs? Are they good for transfer? ...I see, so only the Sword and Launcher are there... Carry out the Aile Striker's repairs then. Also, carry out the materials and shoulder units as well, so the House that Kira-kun and Suletta joined can repair it instead of us... Worried? Not at all. Aerial will surely win. I trust my darling daughter... What about Kira you ask? I trust him, but I need to put him back in his home as soon as possible before he can sabotage our plans any further."
With Kira and the mechanics (only Ojelo, Till, and Nuno), currently, they're at the hangar in the Earth House as a transport trailer arrived, which was driven by Nyla as she backed the shit up inside. Then she stopped because the trailer was now fully inside. The trailer then opened to reveal... Sword and Launcher Striker Packs, four battery packs if the Strike decided to use all Striker packs. Shin Sei made this when they looked at the Strike's data. Back to the listing, some materials to repair the Strike Gundam itself, its old but updated Shield, and of course the old armor of the Strike, which are the leg, front skirts, and shoulder armor (which is updated a bit because it's now equipped with thrusters.).
"Alright boys, this is it for today." Nyla said as she poked her head out of the window of the vehicle she was in, "Lil bro, you have to wait for a few days for the Aile Striker to arrive, same goes for the materials if one of the packs are in need for a repair, then after that, you're on your own because of school rules. Anyways, I need to go now, see ya!" Then she left the hangar as Kira waved back at her. The boys looked back at one another as they nodded, now prepared to repair the Strike Gundam. Then they get started, leaving out a certain mecha nut mechanic. Speaking of which.
The girls are in their shared rooms, doing another fortune shit again. Suletta and Nika are sitting on the bed, Aliya and Lilique are on the ground, Chuchu lying down on the top bed, and Miorine is beside the walls.
"Why did the Ice Prince speak so harshly?" Aliya wondered when Suletta told the members of the Earth House, including Miorine, about her date with Elan.
"He's such a creep!" Lilique called out.
"Isn't he the one who invited you?" Chuchu pointed out, also she's fuckin pissed, "Now he's even pissed me off."
"Is it because I asked about his birthday?" Suletta asked, trying to recall why Elan's changed.
"You did nothing wrong, Suletta." Nika assured her.
"I'd say you fall for people's sweet words too easily." Miorine added while she was scrolling through her notebook.
"Miorine-san!" Suletta called her out.
"Well, you can't take it back now. Better crush him in that duel!" Chuchu encouraged Suletta.
Then Miorine voiced out hers as she hid her notebook in her pockets and the girls looked back at her, "What I can't accept is that you agreed to duel him without even consulting me or Kira." She looked back at Suletta, who sighed in return indicating that Miorine pointed out a good point, as she apologized to Miorine. The door opened as Miorine prepared to leave, "I won't forgive you if you lose." then she left as maintenance and tool noises could be heard outside.
Because of this, Nika had a good idea what happened outside as she rushed towards the sound... followed by a scream.
"AAAHHHH! You guys already started without me!" The Earth House members sighed at Nika.
At Jeturk House, a staff member throws a tent storage bag to the floor. While many Jeturk House members watch the events. Why? Because Vim found out about the duel, and his son lost. Again.
"The Jeturk company is hereby cutting off all your support." a staff member told Guel, who looked down at the bag, "And of course, you'll have to leave Jeturk House."
With the duo, Felsi is whispering to Petra, "Are they really evicting Guel-senpai?"
"It's a direct order from the CEO." Petra told Felsi, who didn't like that.
Because of this, Guel decided to ask, "Where am I supposed to live?"
The staff then answered him by telling him a message from his father, Vim Jeturk, "I have a message from your father. "Consider it an act of mercy that I'm at least paying the rest of your tuition." Then he bowed, "That is all." And he left.
"Nii-san..." Lauda muttered to his brother in pity as Guel picked up the bag, preparing to leave.
"Lauda." Guel called him out, "Look after Jeturk House."
"Both parties," Shaddiq said because the promise of Elan must be fulfilled as both Suletta and Elan are now face-to-face, "deposit your souls on Libra's scales. The duelists are Elan Ceres and Suletta Mercury."
On the lounge's couches are Secilia and Rouji.
"The location will be the airspace outside the front." Shaddiq informed the two pilots, which confused Suletta as she repeated, "Outside the front?"
"Elan Ceres," Shaddiq said as he looked at him, "What is your stake in this duel?"
"If I win, Aerial will be mine." Elan stated his stake as Kira just clicked his tongue. It may be bullshit but rules are rules. The only hope for that is for Suletta to win.
"Suletta Mercury, what is your stake?" Shaddiq asked her as Suletta looked back to Elan, who didn't look back to her.
"I..." Suletta was about to state hers, but the problem is she doesn't have any.
"Shall we take it that you have nothing to gain from this?" Secilia assumed, noticing that Suletta didn't have a stake in mind.
"There's no need to rush." Shaddiq told his fellow member of the Dueling Committee as he looked back to the clueless Suletta, "Just decide by the day of the duel." then he looked back to Elan, "You don't mind, do you?"
"Whatever." Elan said as he left the lounge.
Because of this attitude didn't go unnoticed by Shaddiq, who went near Suletta, "His walls are even higher than usual." Shaddiq told Suletta, "Did you do something to him?"
"You mean it's my fault?" Suletta thought out as Shaddiq gave her an answer as he walked away.
"Who knows? But since you arrived," Shaddiq then paused in his tracks as he looked back to Suletta, "both Guel and Elan haven't been themselves. Even I want to know more about you now. Suisei-chan."
Back at the Earth House, Suletta then informed the members of the Earth House about the location of her duel against Elan.
"Airspace outside the front?" Nika asked as Suletta nodded at that.
Then Nuno decided to ask next, "Do you even have a thruster unit?" to which Suletta replied that she didn't.
"This is bad!" Martin panicked as his hands were on his head, "Peil House's machines are known for their mobility! On top of that, you're facing a new model."
"Well, I could use the Aile Striker Pack." Suletta said as Nika asked her why.
"Because Aerial was built based on the data of the Strike!" Kira shouted from the Strike's cockpit, scrolling through his notebook, "And because of that, Aerial is a certified Striker Pack capable Mobile Suit."
"That's right! The Aile Striker is a high mobility backpack unit if I remember what you told me correctly-" Then Martin paused, remembering that the Aile Striker Pack was at Shin Sei for repairs after Kira and Guel fought. Then he screamed again, "AAAHHH! The Aile's still at Shin Sei while the only Striker Packs here are Sword and Launcher, which is no good!"
Then it was Aliya's turn, "You'll be at a disadvantage, even with the current equipment that we have."
"I'm sorry." Suletta apologized as she was then consoled by Lilique afterward.
"Don't worry about it! The conditions of the duel are decided exclusively by the Dueling Committee." Lilique told Suletta, much to her relief.
"Well, so what do we do? The Sword and Launcher are no good for the duel today." Ojelo pointed out as he looked at the Aerial, "This House has no money to buy a thruster unit."
"Couldn't we just borrow one from another House?" Kira asked as went out of his Gundam and went onto the railings of the bridge.
Swatting, Chuchu replied to Kira, "Fat chance getting Spacians to loan one to us Earthians."
Nika then thought of an idea as she then decided to share it with her Housemates, "How about we make one, then?"
"Eh?/Huh?/Hah?" came the surprised replies of Ojelo, Suletta, and Kira once Nika suggested her idea.
Then soon after, a container arrived and was then opened to reveal... junk parts. Hey, at least it's something more than nothing. The Earth House members are currently wearing matching space suits.
"All clear! Bring it down!" Nuno shouted as the container doors opened.
"Shall we start by inspecting the propulsion system?" Nika suggested to Till while Suletta touched the old container, which breaks part of by simply touching.
This was noticed by Kira as he looked back to the rest with a worried expression, "Will this even work? Look at how old these things are."
"Isn't the Strike old as well?" Chuchu countered Kira's question as he sweatdropped in return because she had a point, "Besides, don't underestimate Nika. There's no doubt she can do it. Right?" She looked back to Nika for confirmation, who had an unreadable expression because I couldn't tell if that expression of hers was an "I can do it" one or not.
But in the end, she replied, "I'll do my best."
Lilique, Aliya, and Martin work atop one of the junk parts with various cables plugged in.
"Given our finances, this is putting us in a huge deficit." Martin moaned as he worked on his tablet, "How are we gonna eat next month? Man..." Then he was consoled in unison by Lilique and Aliya. Well, ain't that creepy.
"We're betting everything we have on you." Ojelo told to Suletta then he did a finger number next, "The odds are 2.7 to 1."
"If we win, we'll cover her costs." Nuno then added as he jabbed his thumb into the parts.
"A-And if I lose?" Suletta shyly asked as both mechanics looked at each other and then at Suletta.
"Bankruptcy." both answered in Unison.
"I'll... do my best." Suletta proclaimed as she raised her arms for defense.
With Elan, Elan sees a faint image of a woman and a glowing candle flame. It is revealed that he is dreaming as the region around his eyes glows red. The faint image was then shown, but he woke up soon after.
"Are you awake?" Belmeria asked him while looking at the monitors, which is about the Pharact and Elan, "You were moaning in your sleep again."
The glows faded as he stood up, "It doesn't interfere with the tests." Elan said as he went to the side and prepared to leave, "How are the results?"
"You should have no problem in your next battle." Belmeria said but Elan thinks ahead.
"You mean I won't survive the one after that." Elan inferred as the doors opened to reveal... a smart-wearing yet smug lookin-ass Elan? Dafuq?
"Yo! It's been a while... Me." The real Elan Ceres casually greeted his other self or rather clone.
The Elan that we know, for now, emotionlessly greeted back, "Hello."
"As gloomy as ever..." sighed the livelier Elan as he approached Elan (This is getting a bit confusing), "You're my surrogate, you know. Can't you act a bit more cheerfully?"
"Elan-sama, what are you doing here?" Belmeria asked, wanting to know what the real Elan was doing here.
Elan sits on the desk and says, "I came to pay my respects to you guys." then he looks back to the Elan wearing the gown, "You're going to duel one of the Holders, right?"
"The company ordered me to." Elan replied without looking back to his real counterpart, "It wasn't my idea."
"Don't be like that. There's something in it for you, after all. If you get us the bride, we'll give your face back to you." Elan offered to his other self as he continued, "We'll also arrange for a citizen ID number. Wouldn't you like that?"
"It doesn't matter." Enhanced Number 4 replied, which made Elan wonder.
"Then why did you accept the role of my double?" Elan wondered, "You knew full well that this mobile suit was a curse."
"Long before that... I was already cursed."
Then in space, we see the Aerial doing some tests with its newly equipped thruster unit. This is called the Mirasoul Flight Unit, built using the spare junk parts and data of the Aile Striker Pack courtesy of Kira Yamato himself. Of course, that's not the only thing that he did, he had to make some adjustments to the Flight Unit's OS, which is where he comes in.
"Next we'll try a variable thrust test."Nika told Suletta through Suletta's notebook as Suletta herself nodded in return, "Once you stop the engines, reactivate immediately."
"Right." Suletta said as she did just that. While the Aerial was doing that, Nika, currently in the Earth House Space vessel, was spectating.
"Okay, your propulsion is stable." Nika commented as she saw the Aerial doing smoothly in this test, "The combustion control functions are working, too."
"Who would've thought that you made it work." Kira said as he sat beside Nika... and beside Miorine as well, "I'm still flabbergasted, though. But still. Good job."
"Thank you, Kira-san." Nika chuckled, "Shall we head back, Sulleta?"
Suletta agreed to that as the Aerial decreased its speed while she and the rest were heading back.
"Tomorrow.." Nika started.
"Yes?" Suletta replied.
"Will you be ready to fight? With Elan-san..."
It took a few seconds for Suletta to answer, "Elan-san was only kind to me... Because that was his plan. And yet, I was really happy. I feel so dumb."
"Exactly. It was dumb." Kira joined in, "But, I am happy that you're having feelings to that Elan person now."
"O-Oi, Kira-nii-"
"I agree with Kira-baka here. It was dumb." Miorine joined in, "In fact, Elan's right about you. You really are annoying."
"Miorine-san.../Hey, hey. Miorine, could you tone that down for a bit?" came the replies of Nika and Kira.
"But that's just how you are." Miorine kept on going, "You annoy me by meddling in my affairs. And act on your own without listening to me... Same goes for you, Kira-baka."
"Well, you are right. But oh come on, why was I involved in this now?" Kira sighed, now that he was involved in this mess. Then Miorine kept on going.
"Move forward, gain two, right? So how could you run away here?! This is no time to feel sorry for yourself. Get out there and move forward!"
Suletta then contemplated it as her eyes flashed in determination, now knowing what to do, "Right!" she complied to Miorine as she was about to prepare to go to Aerial but...
"Wait a sec, before you go." Kira called her out before she could go, now wanting to know the very important question that had been in his mind ever since Suletta came back from her date with Elan. She told the rest about how it went but it didn't answer his question, "Mind telling me why you agreed to go out with him yesterday?"
Suletta paused for a bit, then answered Kira's question, "It's because he reminds me of you back at Mercury. You didn't smile."
With that said, the Aerial then went ahead.
""Didn't smile?" What did she me-" He paused, now he had an idea what she meant, "I see..." Then the space vessel then went on to return back.
The Aerial arrives at the Peil House as it lands, surprising the students of the said House.
"M-My apologies! Sorry to be a bother!" Suletta apologized to the Peil House members as two students in the control room communicated to her.
"Hey, Mercurian girl!"one of the students asked her, "What are you doing here? The duel isn't today!"
The Aerial peeks through the control room's window, surprising the two operators, and Suletta asks for Mr. Elan, stating her student number and name.
"Um... Is Elan-san there? This is LP041, Suletta Mercury." Then her face was shown when the windows were switched, "I came... to talk to Elan-san."
"Talk? To Elan Ceres?" repeated the student, until the other student told Suletta about Elan.
"Good luck with that!" said the other operator, "He hardly talks to us, his housemates. Nobody at Peil House knows a thing about that "Pharact" machine, either!"
Even when they told him that, Suletta still insisted.
"Please. I really would like to talk to him." the two students looked at one another again then they reluctantly complied as they started to connect the Aerial to the PA System.
Then at the Peil House building and in one of the rooms, we see Elan, or rather Enhanced Person Number 4, lying down in his bed.
And then we hear Suletta's voice, testing the system, "Testing... Testing..." This stirred Elan to wake up from his slumber, "Elan-san, can you hear me? It's Suletta!"
Well, Elan did hear her, but almost everyone in the Peil House could hear Suletta. Oh well, like Suletta could give a flying fuck about that, "Elan-san! Why did you say that to me? Why do we have to duel? What do you want with Aerial? Please tell me! do I really annoy you?" The Peil House students kept on listening to Suletta's questions to the Ice Prince himself, but of course, she didn't get an answer.
In the cockpit of the Aerial, the two student operators' showed themselves in Suletta's notebook, "See? We told you so. Now go home!"
Well, of course, that didn't stop Suletta and drained her determination to talk to Elan Ceres as she now thought of an idea on how to get Elan to speak to her.
"Happy birthday to you."Yep, she sang the Happy Birthday song, and surprisingly, it got Elan's attention. Then she kept on going as Elan's now having flashes of the faint woman in his dreams. When Suletta finished the song, her notebook rang... it was Elan that is calling her.
"Go home." Elan told Suletta, "I told you, I don't have a birthday."
"That's why."Suletta said as she suggested to him, "What if we made today your birthday? Didn't you feel empty without a birthday? That's why..."
Elan does not change his mind even if Suletta suggests this as he hangs up the call, "You really do... annoy me."
Today's the day. The promised duel. Suletta Mercury VS Elan Ceres. Aerial Gundam VS Pharact Gundam. A battle between Gundams. One is cursed while the other is not.
"Open Gate No. 6!" Nuno ordered as the said gate was now opened for the Aerial, now equipped with the Mirasoul Unit.
"No anomalies in catapult superconductive storage."Till stated as he looked at whatever electronic gadget he used to check if there were any problems, along with Ojelo.
"No error warnings on any components of the flight unit! No problems with INS alignment!"Ojelo reported as the Aerial was now lowered down.
"Suletta." Nika's voice called out as she was outside, currently in a space vessel accompanied by Miorine, Lilique, Aliya, and Martin. Oh and outside of the space vessel, they are accompanied by the repaired Strike Gundam (It's the Herta Strike Gundam from Star Rail SEED... Yeah, I know. Lazy.), equipped with its Shield just in case any beams and missiles go to the vessel, he'll deflect or protect. Basically, he's the bodyguard. Is this allowed? Well... Yeah, "Were you able to speak with Elan-san?"
"No. But..." Suletta informed Nika and the others about her talk with Elan, "I did decide what my stake is in this duel." The Aerial then reached the launching part of the catapult dropper...thing.
"No obstacles in launch direction." Till informed as he looked back to Nuno, "We're ready!"
"Opening hatch!" Nuno shouted, "Transferring launch authorization to pilot."
"Go get him!"Chuchu encouraged Suletta, then was followed by Kira, "Remember not to lose."
"Right!" Suletta replied as she was now preparing to launch, "LP041, Suletta Mercury... Aerial, taking off!" Then she took off to space as the thrusters activated.
"No problems with effective exhaust velocity." Nika told Suletta as she inspected in her notebook if there were any problems at the Mirasoul, "Suletta, Peil House's academic vessel is ahead on your course."
Nika's right on the money as a Peil House vessel was across them, with the Pharact now being readied for launch.
"No hazardous objects including planetary matter." an operator informed him, "Ready to launch. Transferring authorization to pilot."
"KP002, Elan Ceres..." Elan started, now ready to launch, "Pharact, launching." Then he launched, as he went straight to the Aerial.
At the Dueling Committee lounge, Shaddiq seems to welcome someone.
"Welcome. Nice to meet you. Jeturk House's new leader, Lauda Neill." Shaddiq welcomed Lauda.
"We can skip the formalities." Lauda said, "Please just start the duel."
"What's this?" Secelia mocked as she poked fun at Lauda, "Are you still sore about that last duel?" Then she was met by a glare from Lauda, but she didn't seem fazed about that, "Ooh, scary..."
"With mutual consent by both parties," Shaddiq announced as a Haro on a space drone camera orbits the front, "we will now begin the duel. As always, victory will go to the first one to break the blade antenna of their opponent's mobile suit. The observer shall be the leader of Grassley House, Shaddiq Zenelli. Both parties, face off."
In the Aerial, Elan's face was shown on the monitor, "Elan-san?" Then her notebook rings as Shaddiq communicates with her.
"Suisei-chan, have you decided what your stake is in this duel?"
"Yes," Suletta nodded as she does have a stake, "if I win, I want Elan-san to tell me all about himself."
Then at the vessel...
"Huh?" Martin gaped as he looked at Lilique and Aliya, "That sounds like..."
"A love confession." Aliya finished as Lilique squealed because this girl is a master of love kind of girl, and she shook Aliya.
"She's really an annoying girl." Miorine smiled when Suletta stated her stake as for Kira, he just chuckled, which didn't go unnoticed by Miorine, "Why are you chuckling?"
"It's because Suletta's right about me and Elan." Kira said, "It's not a pleasant memory for me to recall... No wonder Suletta went out with Elan."
"I see..." replied the girl, now she and the rest now know why.
"Well then, let's begin." Shaddiq said as both pilots were now reciting the vow. Once they're done, all that's left is Shaddiq to give the go sign, "Fix release." Then it's on!
The Aerial went to Pharact and locked its beam rifle onto the mobile suit but missed, the Pharact fired back but also missed. The Aerial uses the Mirasoul Flight Unit to take itself upwards.
"Nika-san, this is amazing. At this rate..." Suletta commented as the Aerial fired its beam rifle at the Pharact.
Lilique then looks at her notebook, monitoring the Flight Unit, "Machine load is within acceptable limits."
"Nice work, Nika." Aliya congratulated Nika, who was just focused on piloting this vessel and replied, "I... I guess..."
The Pharact switches magazines as Elan talks to Suletta, "You want to know about me? " The Pharact Permet glowed, indicating that the GUND Format was used, "I'm a disposable pawn created for the Gundam's sake." Elan's face is now glowing red, "Is that enough for you? You're more mean-spirited than I thought, Suletta Mercury!"
Both Gundams pulled out their beam sabers as they parried while Elan continued, "You have everything. Friends, family, a lover... A past and a future... A wish list of things to do... Even hope!" Elan listed, but Suletta was puzzled about this.
"Elan-san?"
"Then why can't you spare me this victory?!" Elan cried out, trying to push the parried lock of their beam sabers, "Otherwise... it's just too unfair!" The Pharact kicks the Aerial and the momentum pushes it back to a longer range to fire from.
"Aerial!" Suletta cried out as the Aerial deployed its GUND-Bits which shielded it from the Pharact's beams.
"Elan..." Shaddiq muttered, noticing Elan's current behavior, "I've never seen you so worked up before."
Pharact kept on firing the Aerial which is still blocked by the GUND-Bits, shielding every hit. Then the Aerial returned fire, which the Pharact dodged.
"What mobility!" Ojelo commented in awe as he was accompanied by his fellow mechanics and Chuchu in the school.
"It's way too fast." Chuchu thought so too.
"This is why they chose the airspace outside the front." Miorine concluded, worried about the fight. Then Martin looked back to Aliya and Lilique, also worried, "She'll never keep up using a flight unit we threw together! At this rate..."
"He'll torture her to death from out of range." Aliya finished for him.
"But that's..." Lilioque cried as Aliya kept on going.
"Even if she does manage to get close, next he'll..."
At the Strike, Kira's just helplessly watched the duel, now regretting not joining the duel, "Win this, Suletta." Kira muttered, putting his faith in Suletta to win.
The Aerial's shell unit glows red. The Pharact similarly glows red as Elan reaches Permet score three. The Pharact's GUND-BITs are deployed.
"There they are!/I knew it!" Chuchu and Ojelo cried out as they expected those GUND-Bits to appear any minute.
"If any of them touch her, even through her armor," Nuno commented, "her electrical systems will be blown."
"Suletta, dodge it!" Kira encouraged Suletta, but there were too many GUND Bits for Aerial to dodge. But Suletta still complied as the Aerial still dodged it.
"You won't get away." Elan growled as one of the Aerial's GUND-BITs was hit.
"She's hit!" "Shut up!" Martin cries out but Miorine shuts him up.
"That GUND-Bit is finished." The Pharact fires a beam but Suletta shouts "everyone" and the GUND-BITs come together again. Two of them return fire and each destroys an enemy GUND-BIT.
"She's better at controlling GUND-Bits than me." Elan remarked. The Aerial's Escutcheon forms to shield it from another shot.
In the forest, Guel has set up camp and drinks coffee while spectating the duel on a tablet.
"In a contest of speed, a Peil mobile suit will always have the advantage. But that Aile Pack of Kira's mbile suit might rival that. What now? Suletta Mercury." Guel commented as he took a sip of his coffee.
"I can't catch him at this rate." Suletta said as she was having difficulty of targeting the Pharact, "Please, everyone! Give me your strength!" The Aerial goes into its Bit On form, giving it increased speed as it gains onto the Pharact.
"The Aerial has sped up, too." Rouji commented while in the lounge.
"They're playing chess, huh?" Secelia smirked.
Elan then glared back at the Aerial catching up to him, "Her annoying behavior is as tough as the hardest alloys." Then he looked back to the main monitor, ready to raise the score, "Permet score, four!"
The Aerial evades all electromagnetic stun beams during the chase. Then both Gundams went up, pushing their thrusters to the max.
"She's really pushing it." Lilique commented, noticing that Suletta is pushing the Aerial's limits, but Miorine thought the opposite.
"She's forcing it too far." Miorine said as Kira agreed with Miorine's statement.
"But she's definitely getting closer." Nika said as she was indeed correct. The Aerial is getting closer as both Gundams go past the borders.
Secelia looked at Rouji, who replied back to Secelia, "They've passed the border lights."
With Belmeria, she's watching the duel, now worried when the Pharact and Aerial went past the borders, "This is bad. The data storm has exceeded acceptable limits."
Elan's face glows and also gasps because the side effects of the GUND Format are now taking effect, while the Pharact nearly hits an asteroid. Suletta spots it and all the GUND-BITs detach, firing in a circular formation.
"Got him!" "That's a hit!" Chuchu and Ojelo cheer as a beam knocks the rifle out of the Pharact's right hand. The Pharact rolls and fires beams from its feet. The beam from its right foot hits the left thruster on the Mirasoul Flight Unit's left wing which undocks from the Aerial.
"Damn!" "Suletta" Kira and Nika cried out as Lilique reported to Nika about the flight unit, "There's damage to the flight unit's left wing."
Elan breathes rapidly in his cockpit, "Belmeria Winston..." Elan called out to the lady, "Your diagnosis missed the mark. But even so, I'll at least deny your worth, Suletta Mercury!" he roared to the Gundam as he deployed his remaining fourteen GUND-BITs.
"Get out of there, Suletta!"Kira warned her as Suletta tried to do that, but without the flight unit, it was useless. An electromagnetic stun beam hits the Aerial's belly, back, left thigh, and right forearm.
"She's trapped!" Elan shouted, now his chance to advance. But the Aerial's eleven GUND-BITs surround it in a circle as its shell unit glows even more intensely. An electromagnetic pulse is unleashed which disables the Pharact's GUND-BITs, and even the Haro drone streaming the duel to the school. This is noticed by Earth House and Rouji.
"Nothing's moving. What did she do?" Elan demanded, noticing that his GUND-Bits were deactivated. When the pulse reaches the Pharact, Elan himself screams in agony.
Outside, he watches a light with a humanoid shape. The shape multiplies and he also hears children's laughter; they are the Aerial's GUND-BITs. The laughter stops and they all fire beams. One hits the left blade antennae of the Pharact. Thus, Suletta attains her win. Her first official win.
"All right!" cheered Ojelo and Chuchu, then the rest in the space vessel. Kira also celebrated as he smiled and muttered, "Good job, Suletta... Ericht..." he whispered that last part, "You've really grown." and this part too.
Rouji then looked back to his Haro, "Did you get a record of that?"
"Permet decoding data, recording complete."His Haro confirmed as Shaddiq just focused his sights on the Aerial, now returning to its Bit On Form.
"Phew..." Suletta sighed, now that she won, "Thank you. Good work, Aerial. I feel like I could hear your voice more than ever today."
She zooms in on the Pharact's melted abdomen. With Elan, and the glowing effects gone, all he sees are several glowing lights. The candle he dreamt of during his examination was on a birthday cake being held by a woman.
"So that's it." Elan said, now realizing about his dream as he closed his eyes, "I never knew..." The woman reaches her right hand to him in this memory. He can hear a voice calling for "Elan-san", it is in fact Suletta who has come to his cockpit she pulls him out and lets their momentum take them away from the Pharact.
"Elan-san?" Suletta asked, "I'm really sorry. Are you hurt?"
Elan then looked back to her, "Your stake was to learn about me, wasn't it? Why's that?"
"It's because... You reminded me of Kira-nii-chan back when he, his dad, and Strike-nii arrived at Mercury. I was told by Okaa-san that his dad died shortly after Kira-nii's ninth birthday and Kira-nii-chan never smiled after that. That's why I'm the one that made him smile soon after. So that's why I wanted to do the same to you." Suletta told Elan, who widened his eyes at this.
Then he decided to tell Suletta, "I did have someone. Long ago. Someone who would celebrate my birthday. All this time, I thought I had nothing." Then he looked back to Suletta, "But... it wasn't true. It wasn't true!"
"You've got it all wrong." Suletta says, "There are people who will celebrate your birthday. I'm one of them. It's absolutely wrong to say you have nothing, Elan-san!"
"That's true." Elan accepted Suletta's words, "I've had it wrong."
With the Earth House vessel and the Strike, Nika decided to ask Miorine.
"Are you okay with this?" Nika asked the girl.
"I'm an understanding bride." Miorine said, "I can tolerate... some minor two-timing."
"Are you sure about that?" Kira asked as his face showed, also smirked as well, in the notebook. Miorine just hmphed in return and told him that she could, as Kira chuckled at that much to the irk of Miorine, who in the end called him "Stop laughing, Baka!".
"So, Kira-san. Is it true tho?" Lilique asked Kira, who in the end affirmed that it's true.
"Yeah... I didn't smile back then when dad died..." Kira explained, "But, thanks to Suletta. I smiled again."
The next morning, a holographic clock has just turned 09:55 and the temperature is 26 degrees. Suletta sits on a bench with Miorine on her left and Kira on her right.
"You think that he's sick or something?" Kira asked as he looked to Suletta, which Miorine then told him that he was late, "He is late!" Miorine told him as Suletta looked back at the two.
"It's not even meeting time yet." Suletta told Miorine and Kira as Miorine got up.
"He should be 5 minutes early!" Miorine said as she prepared to leave.
"Miorine-san!" The lady in question looked back to her, "Um... Thank you... very much." then she looked back to Kira, "You too, Kira-nii-chan. Thank you." Kira just smiled in return as he stood up and he and Miorine then left.
"Just obey your curfew, okay?" "I'll leave you to it, Suletta. Good luck!" Miorine and Kira said or waved as they left the girl while she was waiting for Elan.
Unknown to them, in the Peil Technologies...
"Please Ms. Nugen!" Belmeria pleaded to the four CEOs in the office, "Number Four is experienced! We could always choose to feed back the duel data-"
But she was cut off by Nugen herself, "An enhanced person who can't carry out their orders has no future. You should understand that." Nugen retorts, "We still have spares. Prepare the next one promptly."
In another room, Elan Ceres is held by his limbs in a chamber and begins singing Happy Birthday to You.
"Happy Birthday to you." Elan sang, now accepting his death. A machine that primes an ominous yellowish light in front of him.
Simultaneously, Suletta sings the song on the bench, "Happy birthday to you."
The light glows more intensely as Elan kept on singing, "Happy birthday..."
"Happy birthday..." Suletta sang
"Happy birthday...to-" the light turns red before he finishes singing.
The clock turns 10:10, and Suletta sits by herself, "Will you be here soon, Elan-san?" Suletta wondered, unknown that Elan Ceres, Enhanced Person Number 4, is dead.
RF2: Jaysus Krayst! Well, that is one way to end an episode/chapter. That's dark my guy. Too fucking dark. Okay, so originally it was supposed to be a 2V1 aka Strike and Aerial VS Pharact, but eh I don't want that to be a common occurrence in this story. I don't want Suletta to win with Kira's help this time, also I want Suletta to have a 1V1 since Kira already has one. Also, to be honest, I was starting to like Elan, or rather Enhanced Person Number Four, when I watched this episode. But eh, R.I.P. my guy. Oh yeah, I made the Aerial a Striker Pack Compatible Gundam, since it is explained in this story. The Aerial was built based on the Strike Gundam, hence why it's called the Strike's little sister.
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