We walked to the opposite sides of the arena.
"I hope you will be an interesting fight. After that earlier display."
"I'll give it my all."
'Please set your GP base'
'Model damage set to B'
'Field: 04 City
Okay the city map comes in two forms Earth and colony I have a plan depending.
We loaded in to the field. Colony map perfect. I immediately armed my Dainsleif. The metal stakes fired from the Dainsleif have extreme force behind them the impact is absurd. I'm going to blow a hole in this bitch.
I engaged Goetia's bracing. Two spikes unfolded from its legs, and held Goetia in place. I aimed at the the support struts of the interior of the colony and fired.
'BOOOOMMM'
Two thunderous booms sounded as the metal stakes slammed into the supports struts. They failed catastrophically the whole colony map began collapsing.
"Perfect."
Wilfrid has a lot more experience in Gunpla battle than me. He's also way more intelligent and level headed than Andou. An area with a lot of cover makes this harder. So I'm moving this too an open field instead.
'Critical object damage sustained'
'Field crash detected'
'Field change: 01 Space'
"Clever forcing us into a much more open field. Let's see what you can do. I hope you can be a challenge."
It wasn't arrogance it was absolute confidence and belief in his skills.
He raised his GN Partisan. Blue beams shot out from its and began to home and curve towards me. How does someone code that?
"I know I'm probably not going to beat you. But, I want to test my limits!"
I charged full speed at him. Bulldozing through the beams from his GN partisan. He raised his lance at me. For the first time in the in the tournament my instinct screamed to dodge. He raised his lance towards me. I noticed the tip of his lance split open as light quickly built up at the tip of his partisan.
I was too close to dodge completely. His partisan unleashed the his attack at short ranged. The shot was on the Level of Beam Cannon. I quickly dodge to the right. the beam hit my Left leg. It wasn't destroyed thanks to the Nanolaminate armor. But, it was severely damaged.
"Shit that attack is incredibly high powered."
"Indeed I saw your fight with Saga Andou. Although it looked like you completely tanked his beam cannons. You deployed your GN field slightly too late. While that mitigated the damage. You were still damaged although slightly as opposed to all the lower power beam weapons that couldn't even scratch you. You bulldozing through my beams proved that. Meaning you aren't used to this. You have talent and skill, but without proper training and experience you can't beat me."
He completely analyzed me I wouldn't be suprised if he figured out the Ars Paulina (formerly known as Trans-am-rampage) has a time limit and cooled down period.
"Your right as expected of you. Your reputation for your intelligence proceeds you. However I'm not going to give up."
He smirked and charged me intending to skewer me.
"Deploy, Wing Bits: attack formation." The feathers on the tips Goetia's black wings detached and moved to harass Wilfrid with beam fire. If it were anyone else this would be difficult to deal with on a space map. However…
"Not enough!" Wilfrid swung his partisan a barrage of crescent shaped beams destroyed my wing bits before they could get close enough to fire.
Shit, the bits are down. Dainsleif already used. I made them one shot weapons to accommodate for the placement on the hips.
I charged him. My GN Reaver clashed with his Partisan. A barrage of blows. Our blades locked. Now's my chance! I deployed one of my two hidden weapons. The spike on the lower back of Goetia suddenly extended at blinding speed. Wilfrid dodge at the last second. However I finally managed to hit him. The tail blade took his right leg.
"A hidden weapon? Your full of surprises huh?"
"I'll take that as a compliment coming from you."
We clashed again. He was faster than before. He was getting serious now. The barrage of attack was getting faster and faster. I could only defend. Then he suddenly broke the rythem, and feinted. I fell for it. And he took my right arm for my mistake. We continued to clash trading blows for who knows how long. I knew I was only lasting as long as I was because of my armor. He landed way more blows than mine.
"Well done lasting this long, but it's not enough. You are the first too push me this far. Know that I recognize you as someone who could beat me given time. However my machines reserves are getting low let's say we end this with our strongest."
We had been fighting for 10 minutes now for once my machine was running low on energy. That means his transient gundam has either similar specs on energy output.
"I know I can't beat you Wilfrid. Your right I'm not ready than let's do this. Goetia Ars Paulina engage."
The same phenomena as last time it was used. The color shifted from bright red to dark reddish purple
I backed off and charged the rifle mode of the GN Reaver. Ars Nova despite its explosive power on impact means nothing if it doesn't hit so I chose to use something else. The GN Reaver shifted the saw revealed, but that wasn't important. The casing shifted, causing the barrel become more cannon shaped.
"Ars Almaden Salomonis!!!" Instead of the the thin beam from Ars Nova. The beam was much wider. Essentially a fuck you and everything in that direction.
Wilfrid smiled wildly like the battle maniac he is when he deems someone worthy.
"Transient Burst!"
The beam faded. My machine drifted slowly in the space field. my cooldown timer engaged. Wilfrid was no where in sight.
"Well done I look forward to fighting you again. Had that hit you could've one. Had that hit, that is."
As he impaled Goetia from behind. There was no hatred, no regret. I was simply not skilled enough yet.
"Hahaha, but I got you to go all out. I lost but I'll keep improving until I beat you." I smiled and laughed. Because unlike the other fights that one was fun. It should be said in the original time line both Saga and Wilfrid were battle maniacs, but Saga was cruel and arrogant compared to the rest of the team. Beating noobs to see them cry fucking asshole.
"Hahaha, You did. Didn't you. Not many get me to use the transient burst.I hope to have an enjoyable battle with you again."
It seems although I didn't push him as hard as he pushed me. He still enjoyed our fight. Since he's one of the strongest currently I guess it's a lonely at the top sort of thing. He sees me as someone with the potential to possibly beat him one day. I won't disappoint.
The winners circle was mostly uneventful. I did laugh internally at Andou's face, when he received a third place bronze medal. I received a small silver trophy which was expected once I saw Wilfrid on the roster. Andou stormed off shortly after I'll probably see him again in the nationals he has skill. He was just hard countered by my Goetia. Wilfrid, Shia, and Allen said goodbye and that they will see me again at Gunpla Academy.
My mom and dad came to greet me outside. My dad looked sad.
"You okay son? You didn't win afterall."
Ah, he was worried this loss he me upset. It was my first tournament afterall.
"No I'm fine it was expected. Honestly, once I saw Wilfrid Kijima on the tournament roster, I knew I wasn't winning the whole thing."
"Yeah, Wilfrid is really strong. That transient Gundam is no joke."
"You did well Gin." My mom smiled proud and happy I found something I really enjoy. I really didn't have any hobbies before the memories.
"Yeah I had fun that what's important I lost, but I'll get better and try harder. Oh and Allen Adams, Wilfrid's uncle, is a teacher at Gunpla academy. He is also their team coach. He's extended an invitation for me to go to the academy. So all we have to do is submit the application."
My parents were suprised, but very happy of this development.
"Well let's go get sushi. let's celebrate your first tournament experience."
"Sure sounds like a good idea mom."
And so my first tournament came to an end. I would have to revamp some of Goetia later. For now let's celebrate.