"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

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At the 3rd Tactical Testing Sector, Elan's F/D-19 Zowort evades attacks in a duel against three pilots from Daigo House.

"Wumei! Osh! Synchronize your timing!" Wangzi orders his two housemates, which they nod at his orders as their mobile suits surround the Zowort but Elan flies it upwards.

"Osh! Above you!" Wangzi tries to warn his teammate as Osh begins firing beams upwards to Elan, in which Elan gracefully dodges it.  Elan gazes down as every beam fails to hit.

"Now this is something." Shaddiq commented as he was accompanied in the lounge by Secilia and Rouji, "You don't often see Elan accept a duel."

"I wonder if a certain someone's bad habits are contagious." Secilia smugly said as she looked at Guel, which irritated him.

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With the Earth House, the gang's watching.

"Three against one..." Chuchu commented on the duel that they're watching, "Just how conceited is he?"

"Show some pride, Daigo House!"  Ojelo cheers for Daigo House.

"Are you gambling on this again?"  Nika asked as she joined in while carrying some boxes.

"I bet 200,000 that Elan loses." Ojelo replied while Till and Suletta spectated while eating boiled eggs. Kira, doing maintenance to the Strike, still with its lost parts (shoulders, leg armor, and front skirts), just watched the duel through his notebook placed in his cockpit.

"Is that even a wise decision, Ojelo-san?" Kira asked once he heard that. Ojelo told him that it was a wise decision as the members who knew Ojelo the most sighed at him.

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The Daigo House's mobile suit continued to shoot at the airborne Zowort with their missiles, and the Zowort countered the missiles with his beam bullets as they were destroyed in the process. Wangzi orders them to just try and shake them off. Elan points the Zowort's large propulsion unit forward and reverses.

The beams from his opponents' suits hit the ceiling with the explosions forming a large cloud. The Zowort exits the cloud unscathed and fires at Osh and Wumei's mobile suits, a beam destroys the blade antenna of one suit which accidentally turns and shoots off the blade antenna of its ally.

Wangzi called out to his defeated comrades as he cursed and ignited his beam saber to avenge his comrades. Elan also ignites one in response and closes in on Wangzi's mobile suit, stealing Wangzi's beam saber and slicing off his mobile suit's blade antenna. The Zowort leaves wielding two beam sabers. Elan has attained his ninth win.

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Nuno covers his eyes and Ojelo is disappointed that he's lost 200,000. Lilique grins, "Looks like he won."

"How lame." Chuchu commented on the outcome of the duel, "Losing three against one..."

"You've got it wrong." Miorine said as she was beside the girl, "They played right into Elan's hands."

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The remains of Wangzi's mobile suit start an electrical fire.

"It's burning, you know. Extinguish it!" The heat management system activates to extinguish the burning mobile suit.

"Biological data for Enhanced Person Number 4. is all within normal range." noted Bermelia Winston, who was streaming the duel to the Co-CEOs of Peil Technologies, "With these results, we can move on to the next phase."

"And what about the other witch?" Kal asked.

"Even in her previous duel with Jeturk, we couldn't identify a GUND Format data storm." Bermelia informed them as the data of the Aerial was shown, "It's possible that machine has cleared the greatest issue with Gundams... the bioethical concerns involving pilots."

Golneri then wondered, "I wonder whether it's the mobile suit itself that cleared it, or..."

She couldn't finish so Nevola took over, "It seems we'll have to investigate directly, after all."

"Let's have Enhanced Person Number Four act on our behalf." proposed Nugen to her fellow co-CEOs, "He must be able to figure out whether or not that thing is a Gundam."

"But what about the Strike?" asked Kal.

"The Strike's a Gundam alright, but it uses a GUNDAM OS instead of the GUND-Format. Besides, isn't this what we prepared him for?"

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In the Earth House Hangar, the Strike is being repaired or rather tried to. Its leg armor was removed, and the Chobham Plating was removed to reveal the true colors of the Strike. The Aerial is also being repaired as it was maintained by Kira, who is wearing a mechanic uniform. The mechanics are in awe at the Strike's and Aerial's design.

"Wow! I never knew you could optimize frame action this way." Nika commented, in awe of the Strike then at the Aerial.

"It's too complicated. I can't make heads or tails of these." Ojelo scratched his head, not knowing what he'll do.

"Nuno! What are the systems like for the Strike and Aerial?" Nika asked as Nuno was inside the Strike's cockpit, with the OS shown in his tablet due to Kira unlocking it so they could repair his Mobile Suit. But of course, Kira had to lock away or hide instead, a few files like the Phase Shift Armor, The Earth Alliance, and OMNI. Then the data for Aerial was shown on his tablet as he swiped left.

"The level of integration is worthy of the gods themselves." Nuno said, "How many first-class engineers worked on this thing? Also, Kira, how could you control this thing with an outrageous OS?!"

"Um..." Kira paused in Aerial while typing on the Aerial's keyboard, "I uhh control the Strike when I was young, maybe because of my constant piloting I got used to the OS I guess?" That's a bluff, it's that easy because he's a Coordinator, and the OS the Strike used is only Kira's use.

"Woah. I can't believe they had that kind of budget." Martin commented from the ground.

"Well, the Strike was built at Vanadis you know." Kira told him. It's

"You really are thrillingly mysterious." Nika muttered as she looked at the Aerial and Strike's colorless eyes. They removed the emerald and amber on the head units.

"Hey, Kira." Martin called out as he looked at the parts of the damaged Aile Striker, "What are we gonna do to that pack of yours again?"

Kira went out of the cockpit of the Aerial as he looked at the damaged Aile Striker Pack in the hangar, "Nyla-nee will come here to get the pack so she could transfer it back to Shin Sei and repair it. Then once that's done, they'll transfer the Aile Striker Pack back here." Kira informed him, "They could also transfer the Sword and Launcher Striker here as well."

This didn't go unnoticed by Nika as she looked at Kira, "Sword and Launcher?"

"The Strike's other Striker Packs. The Strike has a special function that could equip backpacks known as Striker Packs." Kira said as he looked back at Nika, "The Strike is a Multi-Mode mobile suit, making it a versatile one and there are three Striker Packs that's in its arsenal. Aile is for high mobility, Sword is for close-quarters combat, and Launcher is for long-range bombardment."

Nika's eyes became stars once she knew about that information, but Ojelo looked back to Kira, "Is it even wise for you to give us this info? Also, if I remember correctly from history, isn't that green cannon the Strike used in the Vanadis Incident from that Launcher pack? Is it even alright?"

"Shin Sei degraded the beam output of the Agni." Kira told him, "Making it safe for the other students whenever I use the Launcher Striker for duels, and making it not as deadly as it was back then. But I doubt that I'll use it." Famous last words.

On another side of the hangar, Suletta and Aliya are sitting as they are surrounded by Giko and the chickens. Aliya then dropped some stones on a fortune board.

"This stone is your mother." Aliya points to the stone in the middle of the board, "It's really big."

"Right..." Suletta affirmed as she looked at the board.

"I don't see any sign of your father."

"My father... well... I'm told he died when I was very young."

Because of this, Aliya apologizes if she hits a sore spot, Suletta told her that she didn't mean to.

Then Aliya resumed as she pointed to another stone, "Is this stone... a brother, maybe?"

"Yeah, it's Kira-nii-chan." Suletta confirmed, "He was adopted in the family when he and his father arrived after the incident. Sadly his dad died when he arrived at Mercury."

The atmosphere became awkward, Suletta decided to change the subject, "Can you also read fortunes for people who aren't here?"

"Their birthday." Aliya stated, "Just tell me the person's birthday."

"I don't know it..." Suletta muttered until her notebook rang. She grabbed it and answered it, until she yelped when the person she answered is..., "Elan-san?!" Suletta yelped as she stood up from her chair, "H-H-H-Hello? Oh, yes. That sounds fine." then she started to walk a bit, "Right. Yes. What? Umm... I don't know. Then in that case, uh..." then she hangs up.

"What's wrong?" Aliya asked, now wondering why Elan called Suletta.

"H-He, uh..." Suletta stuttered as she looked back to Aliya, "He wants me to go out with him."

A little time skip, the girls are in their shared room, and all of them are in their nightwear. 

"A date?! Didn't you say that you have Kira?" Nika inferred, but Suletta tried to correct her and clarify that he just asked if she'd like to go somewhere on their next day off.

"That's what a date is, dummy." Chuchu told Suletta.

"Suletta-san, Did you turn down that other proposal... because you're really after Elan-san? I thought Kira-san is your lover?" Lilique asked as Suletta stuttered as she told Lilique that Kira was still her lover. This amused Lilique even more, "Both of them are really popular."

"But who'd have thought the Ice Prince would make a bold move." Aliya thought out.

"Ice Prince?" Suletta repeated as Aliya confirmed it.

"Elan." Aliya confirmed, "He never shows any emotion, does he? Be it anger or a smile, nobody's ever seen it on his face."

Lilique then responded, "But a lot of girls are into cool guys like that! Like Guel and Kira!"

"Eh? Kira-nii-chan?" Suletta asked, not knowing that Kira's now part of the discussion.

"Yeah! Kira now has a small fanbase if I remember correctly. They're pretty tame."

"Tame huh..." Suletta muttered darkly as her eyes darkened, "I beg to differ..." thankfully the girls didn't notice that.

Back to the matter at hand, Chuchu, however, thought out the opposite, "Sounds suffocating. If I were you, I'd kick him to the curb."

"Well, Suletta's the one he asked." Nika commented.

"He never smiles?"

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Then the scene changes as Suletta calls her mother whilst sitting inside the Aerial's cockpit.

"What's wrong? Calling at a time like this..." Prospera asked, now without her mask on.

"It's just... I might go out on my next day off." Suletta informed her mother, "And, uh... I..."

Prospera smiled, "Sounds like you're making progress on your wish list. You're going with Kira-kun, right?"

"Actually it's not... it's someone I don't know all that well." Suletta told Prospera as the office doors of Prospera opened to reveal her employer, Godoy, entered, "I'm going on a date with him for a bit just so I could get an idea what to do when Kira-nii-chan and I went out."

"Wouldn't that make you a cheater? But I do understand to where you're going, though."

"Thank you, Okaa-san."

"Not at all." Prospera then raised her hand, signaling Godoy to wait for a bit, "So mind telling me why you decided to go out with that boy?"

"H-He... He doesn't smile." Suletta said, "Which reminds me a bit when Kira-nii-chan was adopted into us. He doesn't smile..."

"You've made your mother happy." Prospera told her as she smiled, much to the confusion of Suletta, "Isn't this what I taught you? Move forward, gain two."

"Right." Suletta nodded as Prospera continued, "Now go have fun. And tell Kira I said "Hi", okay?"

"Thanks, Okaa-san." then they hung up their phones/notebooks.

"Was that your daughter?" Godoy asked Prospera as Prospera looked back at her Employer.

"She seems to be enjoying school." She grabbed her helmet, "Do you need something?"

"Aside from the Aile Striker Pack now starting its repairs once it arrived here, Peil Technologies is making its move." Godoy informed her as Prospera equipped her helmet.

"It's sooner than we expected." Prospera muttered, now knowing that Peil Technologies are making moves.

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Currently in wherever Elan and Bermalia are at, Elan is currently watching a recording, because it is now part of his physical examination. Called datafile 024, which shows the Aerial using its GUND Bits on the Dilanza.

"True synergy of man and machine, is that it?" Bermalia commented as Elan kept on watching. Then she switched to the data of the Aerial since the Aerial is what the Peil Technologies are after, "The balance trajectory graph doesn't correspond to any attitude control patterns. And its reactivity is far too organic for the drive system it's using." 

"So you think it's body augmentation control?" Elan guessed as Bermelia confirmed his guess.

"The ideal form of the GUND Format." Bermelia admitted, "Normally, a task level this heavy would instantly kill the pilot with a massive Permet influx."

Elan looked at his body as it began to glow red, "Which means that Suletta Mercury must be an enhanced person. A human created for the sole purpose of piloting a Gundam. Just like me."

"This is no time for your grievances."

"Is her face borrowed from another, too?"

 He receives no answer from Bermelia as the woman herself just looks at him, and she notices the expression on Elan's face.

"Wait... Are you happy about this?" Bermelia asked him, surprised at Elan as the glow faded in his body.

"You're the ones who asked me to look into her, not the pilot of the Strike." Elan said as he was about to leave but he stopped, now wondering what about Kira Yamato, "What about Kira Yamato, though?"

"We'll worry about him for another time." Bermelia told him, "He's not that much of a threat yet."

With that said, Elan then prepared himself to leave the room, "If the physical examination is done, I'm going back to class." Then Bermelia went to him and told him, "Before you try to battle Aerial, I'd like to test the Pharact. We'll need you to arrange another duel."

"I'll just follow your orders." came the simple reply of Elan, but he kept on going.

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A little time skip. It is the morning of Suletta's day off. Giko bleats as the Aerial is loaded into a container.

"All right! Set it down just like that!" Nika shouted as the Aerial was now inside the container.

"It's ready! Chuchu...senpai!" Suletta said, now equipped in her white pilot suit.

"You're really going out dressed like that, huh?" Kira asked with a raised brow, wearing a brown space suit just like the others.

"Elan-san said to bring Aerial too." Suletta told her brother as Kira just shrugged in return.

"Alright, but make sure you go back safely okay." Kira shrugged as Chuchu just looked at Kira.

"Aren't you mad that your sister/lover's about to cheat on you?" Chuchu asked as Kira looked back at her with a deadpanned expression.

"Knowing Suletta, she's too obsessed with me." Kira casually told the midget, "She's slowly becoming a yandere, to be honest..." then he muttered that part as flashbacks of Suletta with a knife appeared in his head. When did that happen? Well, that happened when his small fanbase sometime after his fight with Guel hoarded him in the halls, much to the irk of Suletta, she unknowingly pulled out a knife and pointed it at the fanbase, threatening them with her eyes becoming dull. Hence marked Kira's new fear. Suletta Mercury slowly but surely becoming a yandere.

"A what now?" Chuchu asked, which broke Kira's trance as he shook his head and told her it was nothing.

The container then closed the Aerial as Nika looked back to the three, "Suletta! The container can go whenever you're ready." Nika informed Suletta.

"Thank you very much!" Suletta thanked Nika as she looked back to Till and Aliya, the former giving her a thumbs up, "On behalf of Aerial... I can't thank you all enough for the repairs..."

Then suddenly, Miorine suddenly arrives on a scooter. Angry.

"Suletta!" Miorine called out to the girl, "What the heck are you thinking? A date with Elan? Didn't you already have your brother? Are you trying to have a reverse harem?!" Hey hey, this is a harem, not a reverse!

"Oh no! Miorine-san!" Suletta yelped as she was pushed away by Lilique to get in her Gundam.

"I told you the three branches are our enemies, didn't I?!" Miorine yelled out as she was stopped by Aliya and Till. Then she looked back at Kira, who didn't look back at her as he was facing the other way, "You! Why didn't you stop your sister?! Answer me, you Baka! Baka! Kira you idiot!"

"Have fun on your date!" Kira shouted to Suletta, still not looking because he was trying to avoid his gaze on Miorine.

Suletta looks down from the container, ready to go.

"Make sure to ask about his birthday!" Aliya reminded Suletta, while Miorine kept on yelling about letting her go, and trying to hit Kira while calling him typical tsundere insults.

While the container exits Earth House, Miorine yells at Suletta to not dare go all Romeo & Juliet on her. Then calling Kira back to tsundere insults when Suletta was out as the boy sighed in return. 

At Peil House, Elan reads The World as Will and Representation while his fellow Peil House members gossip about him. The container arrives at Peil House, the door opens and Suletta greets Elan with a good morning.

"I see you came on time." Elan said as he looked at Suletta, "Let's go, then."

"Right!" Suletta replied as the Peil House members were bewildered.

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While that is happening, in another location of the school, Felsi and Petra rush into Jeturk House's gym where Kamil and Guel are working out.

"Guel-senpai!/You won't believe this!" came the desperate voices of his juniors

"What is it?" Guel asked as he looked at the duo.

"The Mercurian girl is going on a date with the Ice Prince!" Upon hearing this, Guel pauses.

"With Elan? Don't make me laugh." Kamil said to Felsi.

"It's true! Somehow. they've..." Before she could continue, Guel called her out.

"Felsi." Felsi and Petra tried to look back at Guel, who was now donning an expression. An angry expression, "Where did they go?"

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The container arrives at a tactical testing sector. Suletta and Guel sit at a computer by the Aerial's feet

"I'm sorry." Elan apologized, "My Zowort... is under repair after the last duel."

"Not at all! If I... can be of help..." Suletta said as the container doors of the Aerial opened, "I'm happy!"

"Inspecting the testing sector is also the job of the Dueling Committee." Elan explained. Referencing a map of the testing sector on the screen, he asks her, "Can you go around in this order?"

"You got it!" came Suletta's cheerful reply as both pilots got into the Aerial.

The Aerial starts walking around the testing sector with Suletta and Elan inside the cockpit.

"Impressive piloting skills." Elan praised Suletta.

"Not at all. I was trained by Kira-nii-chan..." the girl replied while piloting the Aerial. Speaking of which...

"How long with this machine?"

"What?" Suletta didn't get that as Elan told her that he wanted to know more about Suletta. Then Suletta kindly replied, "I've always been with her. Since I was a child. Aerial was built as the little sister of Strike-nii."

"Always?" Elan questioned, but he kept on going, "Did you ever struggle or suffer? While piloting, I mean."

"There wasn't any suffering... I rather felt at ease." Suletta answered as she continued while Elan just looked at her, "We've always been together, from childhood onwards. To me, Aerial is like a good friend. Or even family. That sounds weird, right?" Suletta then looked back at Elan, only to be met by his face really close to hers, because he was intrigued by her. 

Because of this, Suletta's expression changed as she slightly leaned her head back, "Uh... Elan-san! P-P-Please, tell me when your birthday is!" Suletta nervously asked.

But instead of an answer from Elan, Elan deflects the question by asking for a favor, "Can you do me a favor?" 

"Huh? Sure..." Suletta replied as she looked back to Elan.

"I'd like to pilot Aerial by myself."

"What?"

"I won't be rough with one of your family. So..." Elan assured her as Suletta complied with his favor.

The Aerial hovers with its thrusters as Suletta watches from afar with her helmet removed, "Maybe he did this... to avoid talking about his birthday." Suletta wondered as they went farther away.

Once the Aerial is far, Elan lands the Aerial.

"I can expose the truth." Elan muttered, "Whether or not you're a Gundam. Permet score... two." Then the thingamajig happened as Elan entered at Permet score two.

 Elan controls the Aerial's hands directly, recognizing the system as the GUND Format.

"I knew it. This is the GUND-Format." Elan said, until he realized something was missing, "No, wait... it lacks that sensation." Then he compared it to his hands, "Like a hand reaching so roughly into my brain."

He rolls up his pilot suit's right sleeve and sees that it lacks the red glow, "The Permet isn't responding. Which means, the one who has lifted the curse is..." Elan then comes to the conclusion as he is disappointed, yet angry, that he unequipped his helmet and threw it, "Suletta Mercury... You're nothing like me!"

Now he found his answer, and along with his disappointment and anger, the Aerial landed in front of Suletta. Suletta then went to Aerial as Elan zips down to the ground.

"Elan-san!" Suletta called out to Elan, not noticing his change of expression, "I-I'm sorry! You didn't want to tell me your birthday?"

"That is something..." Then he walked past Suletta, "I've never had."

"Do you mean..." Suletta looked back to Elan, "Your mom never told you?"

Elan paused in his tracks as he glared at Suletta, "How you annoy me. Your mobile suit is like family? These things are nothing but a curse to me." then he resumed as he was about to walk away, "I thought we were alike, but you and I are..."

Guel enters the tactical testing sector on a vehicle and stops between Suletta and Elan.

"Elan!" Guel called him out as he got off of the vehicle, "You bastard, what did..." Guel then paused as he saw Suletta's expression. Once he did, he glared back at Elan, "What did you do to her? Depending on your answer..."

"You'll ask for a duel?" correctly guessed Elan as he looked back at Guel's puzzled expression, "Perfect timing, Guel Jeturk. I challenge you... to a duel."

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"Both parties, deposit your souls on Libra's scales." Shaddiq said as both Guel and Elan are now inside the lounge, preparing for their upcoming duel, "The duelists are Guel Jeturk and Elan Ceres. The location will be the 11th tactical testing sector. The one-on-one code will apply. Any objections?"

"None./No objections." came the replies of the two duelists.

"It's been a while since we've seen a duel among the three branches." Secilia said as she just looked at the three boys.

"Guel Jeturk." Shaddiq said, "What is your stake in this duel?"

"That this jerk stays away from Suletta Mercury." Guel stated his stake, much to the amusement of Shaddiq as he smugly looked at the Jeturk.

"H-Hey, that's... none of your business!" Suletta objected as Guel looked back at her.

"Don't you get it?" Guel told Suletta, "This guy is your enemy. He's from the three branches!"

"Doesn't that go for you too?" Suletta gave Guel a deadpan expression and pointed out, which Guel clicked his tongue in return, indicating that Suletta had a good point.

"Suisei-chan. This duel is between Guel and Elan." Shaddiq told Suletta, "It's not your place to interfere."

"Yeah, but..."

"If you're unhappy with the result, then fight another duel yourself." Shaddiq said, "Those are the rules that govern this school."

Then Shaddiq resumed the oath procedure as he looked at Elan, "Elan Ceres, what is your stake in this duel?"

"I..." then he looked at Suletta, "Suletta Mercury. If I win, I will fight a duel with you."

"Very well." Suletta agrees without a second thought.

"Alea jacta est. The duel is approved" With the clasp of his hands, the duel between Guel Jeturk and Elan Ceres has now begun.

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At the Jeturk House Hangar, Kamil notices that someone has boarded Lauda's Dilanza.

"Hey! Stop right there!" Kamil called out as he tried to stop the person piloting the Dilanza. Then he looked back to one of the Jeturk Housemates, "Who the hell just boarded Lauda's Dilanza?"

"Actually it's..." Before she could finish, inside the Dilanza, Lauda's face was shown in...Guel Jeturk's notebook.

"Nii-san!" Lauda shouted through the notebook, "You're forbidden to duel! If Tou-san finds out about this..."

The Dilanza walked out as it was now prepared to launch to its destination, and Guel replied, "If I win, Tou-san will have nothing to complain about!" The Dilanza's thrusters activated as it left the hangar.

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At the Earth House, Ojelo looked back at Lilique, "Why the heck are Elan and Guel dueling?"

"It's perfectly obvious!" Lilique replied as she looked back to Suletta, "Right, Suletta-senpai?"

"That's..." Suletta tried to answer, "That's not it." 

"Doesn't look like nothing to me." Kira commented as he was eating a sandwich, "Looks like something happened back there. Mind telling me what happened, Suletta?"

"This is a good development." Miorine added with her arms crossed as Chuchu and Aliya looked at her, "Let them destroy each other."

"You really are mean-spirited." Chuchu called Miorine that.

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At the tactical testing sector, the Dilanza arrived.

"KP001. Guel Jeturk. Dilanza... let's go!" Lauda's Dilanza's visor glowed in response.

"This won't end well." Felsi commented, worried for Guel once Vim finds out about this.

"If the CEO finds out..." Petra added as she and Felsi looked through Felsi's notebook while they were at the Jeturk House Hangar.

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Lauda then went to the lounge, pleading at the committee to abort the duel, "Please abort the duel! Nii-san is not permitted to fight. The duel is invalid!"

Secelia looked back at Lauda while painting her nails, "We already gave Guel-senpai authorization."

"Forgive me, Lauda." Shaddiq apologized while focused on the screen, "I too want to see this duel."

Back at the sector, the container containing Elan's Mobile Suit arrived. Once it does, the container opens to reveal... 

"Huh?" "A black Zowort?" came the replies of Guel and Secelia once they saw Elan's Mobile Suit.

"I don't think so." Rouji corrected, "That one is...."

"KP002. Elan Ceres." Elan started as he's about to reveal his unit's name, "Pharact, going out." 

Elan's mobile suit, the newly built FP/A-77 Pharact Gundam, went out of its container.

Ojelo is surprised Peil House has a new model too, and Chuchu berates them as rich kids.

"Both parties, face off." Shaddiq said as both pilots began to cite their vows. Once they're done, the sector changes into a lunar environment and of course..., "Fix release." By those two words from Shaddiq, the duel between the Ice Prince VS the Former Holder/Tsundere SIMP has begun.

The Pharact then flew from the ground as he fired a beam at Guel, who was at the ground.

"The new model flies too, huh?" Guel commented as he observed the newly built Pharact, "Even so!" Dilanza jumps up wields using its beam vulcans on the Pharact which successfully evades. The Dilanza caught on the Pharact as he jumped off the ledge, "In low gravity, the Dilanza can do that too!" Guel proclaims, its beam axe ready to attack. Once he's near the Pharact, the Dilanza bludgeons the Gundam.

"Go!" Ojelo cheered at the duel, obviously, he betted, "Odds are 1.4-to-1!"

"I can't believe you bet on that guy." Nuno told him in disbelief as Suletta sighed. With Martin, Kira, and Aliya, they watched the duel through Martin's notebook.

"He's fighting too violently."  Martin said as Kira agreed with him.

"Yeah, look at all the clouds of sand charged with static electricity!" Kira pointed out, "He's not like that in our fight. Something must've happened back at their date and only Suletta knows what." Kira and Martin then looked at the girl in question.

"Regolith..." Elan commented at the clouds of regolith then suddenly the Dilanza appeared from the clouds as he attacked. The Pharact strafes to the left and flies off, leaving Dilanza in the cloud where its joints begin sparking, "You'll be my assistant in testing the Pharact." 

With that said the Pharact began to glow red, indicating that its Permet score is now used.

"Gundam?" Rouji state, as he and the lounge members are in disbelief.

"No way... They built a Gundam?" Kira muttered in disbelief that the Pharact is a Gundam.

"Permet score..." Elan said, now ready to humiliate Guel and his GUND Bits went out of the MS itself, "Three."

Guel relentlessly tries dodging the ed beams fired from the GUND-BITs and then tries taking them down with beam vulcans. This fails and the beam axe and right shin of Lauda's Dilanza are damaged.

"D-Damage!" Guel shouted as the Beam Axe suddenly deactivated, which was noticed by the pilot itself, "No, it's not that." His alarms blared as the Pharact fired beams downwards.

Guel dodges and the Dilanza's functions are inexplicably restored, "Functions are restored? That looks like..."

"An electromagnetic stun beam." Rouji stated for Guel.

"So this one uses drones too!" Guel shouted at the Pharact, its GUND Bits with him.

Prospera, in the school or something, is watching the duel through her phone, "Those are no drones. They're..."

"The GUND Format." Belmeria correctly said as she approached Prospera, "It's been so long... senpai."

Prospera then paused for a bit, then she smiled, "So there was another witch all along."

"I could say the same to you... and the fact that Kira-kun is also here makes it obvious."

Back at the fight, an electromagnetic stun beam hits the Dilanza's right wrist, causing it to drop its beam rifle.

"Damn it... in that case!" Guel growled as the Dilanza resorts to impacting the ground with the beam axe which causes a very large cloud of regolith to form. Counting on the regolith to stop the electromagnetic stun beams from touching him, "As long as they don't touch me, this is nothing!"

"You wish." Elan simply replied

"I'll make it through!" Guel advances but just as he is about to close in on the Pharact, dropping his beam axe in the process, "I did it!" once he's through, the joints stop working.

All the GUND-BITs now aim at Lauda's Dilanza, now that it is totally immobilized as it knelt down

"Damn." Shaddiq cursed, seeing now what happened and what Guel got himself into now, "He fell right into Elan's trap."

"Elan used the conductivity of the electromagnetic beams." Rouji added as he looked up from his notebook, "To give the regolith an electrostatic charge. When the dust adhered to the joint drive parts, it created an overload. The key factor was actually caused by Guel-senpai himself."

Guel is in fear as the Pharact aimed its beam rifle at the immobilized Dilanza. Pharact blows off Lauda's Dilanza's right shoulder with a beam. Felsi and Petra are shocked and Lauda cannot bear to watch. Nuno, Ojelo, and Chuchu all watch the duel intensely. Suletta appears horrified. Kira appears shocked. 

The GUND-BITS deactivate their electromagnetic stun beams and back away. What's left of Lauda's Dilanza falls to the ground. The Pharact grabs the base of the beam antennae with its right hand and begins pulling.

"Stop..." Guel begged, but Elan didn't give a shit.

"The only way to defeat a Gundam..." 

"I said stop!"

"Is with a Gundam." Then the antennae snapped off and the Pharact is holding it up victoriously as a hologram shows Elan as the winner.

Nuno celebrates for he has tripled his wager. A disappointed Ojelo puts his hands to his own face. Suletta then got a call from Elan as she then answered, with Kira now beside her.

"H-Hello? Elan-san, you..."

"I won. Suletta Mercury." Elan said as he was now reminded of the promise, "As promised, you will now fight me."

"Promised?" Miorine asked, now curious about that promise. The same goes to Kira.

"Suletta, did you..." Kira tried to ask but Elan continued on.

"The stakes of our duel will be... the Aerial." Elan stated as Kira and Suletta's eyes widened, "If I win, that Gundam will be mine."

Kira then looked back to the aforementioned Gundam, now having a good idea of what happened back there.

-Linebreak-

RF2: Poor Guel, humiliated, and lost once again. To a Gundam. Well anyway, decided to post a quintuple update because of Gundam Build Metaverse. Damn, it's good... but small. I NEED MOAR EPISODES! GUYS, LET'S DO A PETITION! I'm kidding... or am I??? But still. Yeah.

The next chapter is the fated duel between Gundams. The Aerial VS the Pharact. And I have nothing else to say about this Author's Note. Anyway, that's it from me! See you!