Gundam SEED Fan Fiction ❯ Gundam Seed Shadow ❯ Episode 19 ( Chapter 20 )
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By: Hcps 
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 02.12.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 9.2K | Visits: 150 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 02.12.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 9.2K | Visits: 150 | Status: Work In Progress
Episode 19
The episode opens up at night showing the place Shadow and the others are staying at. We cut inside Cagalli's room to show her sleeping, in the corner of the screen the time and day is displayed 11pm Day 14. Drake walks in the room and kicks Cagalli still in her PJs out of the bed.
Drake: Wake up!
Cagalli crashes to the ground, very startle she looks around and focuses in on Drake, she becomes pissed.
Cagalli: What the hell!
Drake begins to walk out of the room
Drake: Get dress, it's time we had our talk and if you go back to sleep I swear I'll throw you out the window!
Drake walks out of the room, Cagalli glares at him a moment then goes to grab her clothes. The camera cuts outside to show Cagalli and Drake walking down a street. We can see the moon and the streetlights are on. Cagalli is following behind Drake, she looks nervous. Drake breaks the silence
Drake: You know it's rude to eavesdrop on other people's conversation.
Cagalli is slightly irritated
Cagalli: You know it's rude to talk about people behind their back!
Drake stops and turns to look at her
Drake: Let's cut the crap, if I had my way you'd be kicked off the team but Shadow has got it in his head that you've got some kind of spark in your eyes and we both know how stubborn he can be.
Cagalli and Drake are glaring at each other
Cagalli: And what did I do during the training that caused you to dislike me so much?
Cagalli doesn't raise her voice but the anger is clear
Drake: I dislike you even before the training because in my opinion you're the worst type of person!
Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: You don't know anything about me!
Drake snaps
Drake: I know exactly who you are Miss Cagalli Yula Athha daughter of Uzumi Nara Athha.
Cagalli blinks in surprise
Cagalli: Y-you do?
Drake nods still glaring at her
Drake: You think I would just manage anyone without question, unlike you I have contacts and made some calls to find out more about you guys but imagine my surprise when I found out that you're the real Cagalli from Orb and not just some crazy nut-job. I made sure to get the file on you and that has everything you did during the wars in it.
Cagalli doesn't know what to do now
Cagalli: Then
Drake cuts her off
Drake: If you're going to ask for my help to get you back to earth you can forget it! I don't like you so there's no way in hell I'm going to help you!
Cagalli's anger quickly comes back
Cagalli: So you don't like me because in your opinion I'm the worst type of person but what type of person am I!
Drake yells back
Drake: You're a parasite! You can't do anything by yourself, you always have to leach off of others power!
Cagalli is shocked
Cagalli: Th-that's not true!
Drake doesn't let up
Drake: Oh really then tell me one thing you did by yourself to help end the Bloody Valentine wars!
Cagalli gets even angrier
Cagalli: I command a battleship during the first Bloody Valentine War!
Drake laughs
Drake: HAHAHAHHA, you actually think that, hahahhaha, no, no, no, Lacus Clyne took command of the battleships, she's the one who took charge and gave people hope and a target. As for you commanding the ship, that position was given to you out of polite courtesy because of your father. Face it, a monkey could do the job just as well as you did, oh here's an example when your ship got caught in some kind of wire you come up with the brilliant plan of cut it. I mean really you really thought that you were the best person to command the battleship?
Cagalli hesitates before speaking. Drake sees this and pounces
Drake: Having trouble thinking of something? Well to save time how about I start listing events you might try to use and then tell you why you're wrong. Let's start from the beginning and go with Desert Dawn, well first off you hardly ever went out to the front lines and when you did you had that bodyguard Ledonir Kisaka watching your every move. The only reason they held you in such high regards was because of the intel you gave them on the ZAFT mobile suits and that wasn't even your intel that was your fathers! Then you join the Archangel and let's face it the only thing you manage to do was break the record of most shot downs without dying. Then there was the battle of Orb against the Earth Alliance where you just sat in the command room and did nothing except rely on Kira, Athrun, and your father!
Cagalli tries to defend herself
Cagalli: I was commanding the Orb force and a commander doesn't leave her post!
Drake rolls his eyes
Drake: Please everyone in that room was three times more qualify then you to lead the Orb forces the only reason they had you in their was to give you the feeling of doing something without putting you in any real danger and like a sucker you bought it. Then you became the commander of the Kusanagi and we already went over how you suck at that.
Drake: Then you became a politician and the only way you were able to get away with half the stuff you did was because the other politicians look the other way out of respect of you father or because they knew the public loved you. Then came the second Bloody Valentine War, some will argue with me on this but it's my opinion it began with the Theft at Armory one.
Drake: Oh by the way are you really that naive that you thought you could talk the Plants out of using Orb technology on military projects or are you just that stupid? Then the fighting breaks out and what do you did, you follow Athrun around like a little lost puppy, I mean can you be any more of a burden and another thing when Athrun made the choice to get into that ZAKU Warrior to save both your lives why did you let him pilot it?
While Drake's been talking Cagalli is becoming more and more frustrated as she struggles to think of something to say in her defense.
Cagalli: It just sort of happen, there was no time to think
Drake cuts her off
Drake: So what you're saying is that instead of trying to get out of the situation by using your own power, you instinctively leach off of Athrun's power and you couldn't even do that right! The moment Athrun starts gaining the upper hand the poor little princess hits her head and blacks out forcing him to withdraw, talk about the very definition of a burden!
Drake: Then you got stuck on the Minerva while they pursued the thefts, now I can understand the reason for you not joining the fight if you wanted to keep a neutral stance for your nation but you and I both know that wasn't the real reason you didn't help them. The real reason was your own fear, your fear of conflict, your fear of fighting, and your fear of War, so while Athrun was growing more restless by doing nothing you were unable to do anything but sit and watch!
Drake: Then when Junius Seven was about to drop Athrun couldn't take it anymore and went out to help, but what did you do? You slept like a little baby while Athrun and the Minerva went ahead and save the day; even when you found out that Athrun had gone out you did nothing to help but just sat there once again leaching off his power. Then when you got to Orb you couldn't even do your job as politician right and your brother had to save you from your own incompetence again! While you were on board the Archangel you once again did nothing but take up space, moan and cry about how tough life is!
Cagalli has had enough
Cagalli: I try to help, I kept trying to stop the Orb forces but they wouldn't listen!
Drake: And whose fault do you think that was! YOURS, the reason your own men didn't listen to you was because of your own weakness, if you were a true commander then you would have try to force them to listen but instead you left that to Kira and the Archangel while you cry and did nothing but have a pity party! And what about when the Archangel was being pursued by the Minerva and it was obvious that Kira needed help, but no instead of helping him fight the Impulse you just sat and try to leach off his power, which almost got him killed!
Cagalli's anger, frustration, and desperation all boils over
Cagalli: But I made it up, I save Orb when they were under attack by ZAFT, I did that, ME!
Drake screams
Drake: Your father was the one who saved Orb not you!
Cagalli blinks surprise
Cagalli: What?
Drake goes on
Drake: I've got to give that guy credit, even though I don't agree with everything he said and did any man that can protect his nation even from the grave deserve the highest level of respect. It was the Akatsuki that save Orb; it wasn't your piloting skills that save Orb it was because you had one of the most advance mobile suits ever built. In fact it was because of your crappy piloting skills that you almost got it destroyed when you fought the Destiny, but world of wonders who once again comes to save you! Kira once again saved your sorry ass, and instead of continuing to try to fight you back out like the coward you are and let Kira take over!
Cagalli: The pilot of the Destiny was better than I was it made more sense to let Kira fight him while I go take command of the Orb forces at the command center!
Drake: So the moment a fight gets tough you back out and leach off Kira or Athrun to take care of it and don't give me some half ass accused like you had to take control at the command center because what did you do except sit on your ass and wait for Djibril to be found? Then after the battle was over and Kira and Athrun had won it for you, all you had to do was tell the people of the World that you were no longer with Djibril but you couldn't even do that, this time you had to leach off of Lacus's power to help you! Which brings me to my final point, why didn't you go with the Archangel to stop Durandal?
Cagalli doesn't know what to say
Cagalli: I-I had to tend to my responsibilities as Orb's leader.
Drake: Please you had over a dozen different people you could have left in charge that would have done a better job then you, in reality you had to leach off of Kira, Athrun, Lacus and the whole crew of the Archangel because you were too weak to do anything and that's why I don't like!
There's a very sad silence as Cagalli fails to think of anything to say in her defense.
Cagalli: If you thought this all along then why did you even bother putting me through the training regiment in the first place?
She asks miserably. Drake looks at her and sighs
Drake: Well in all honesty I expected you'd quit sometime in the first day of training, I thought you think along the lines of "I can't possibly continue, my hands are shaking this bad from just half-a-day's training, if Kira or Athrun were here they could do it but I'm nowhere near as strong as they are."
Cagalli looks away
Cagalli (He really is good at reading people, that's almost exactly what would have happen if I hadn't notice Shadow's hand shaking too.)
Drake breaks Cagalli's chain of thought
Drake: The fact that you didn't was a very big surprise to me, but just showing up to something and putting every fiber of your being into something are two completely different things!
Cagalli is on the defensive
Cagalli: I am putting all my effort into the training!
Drake snaps
Drake: No you're not! You're just going through the motions, you're not pushing yourself to your limit but since you can't seem to see that let me show you!
While they've been talking Drake has lead Cagalli to the building where he makes them climb the stairs. Drake gestures to it then walks inside, Cagalli confused follows him inside.
Cagalli: What did you want to show me here?
Drake walks over to the door that leads to the stairs.
Drake: What true effort looks like!
Drake slightly opens the door and gestures for her to take a peek. He also puts a finger over his mouth to tell her to be quiet. Cagalli looks annoyed but takes a look anyway, we cut inside the spiral staircase room to see Shadow. He's about 20 steps up from the bottom of the staircase and has hop onto the rail. The camera cuts back to Cagalli and Drake, Cagalli looks confused.
Cagalli: That's Shadow, what's he doing here this late?
The camera goes back to Shadow to show him tense and then jump to the spiral rail across from him. We cut quickly back to Cagalli to show deep surprise
Cagalli: What!
We cut back to Shadow to show him actually make the jump to the side of the cement rail across from him this time. He turns before he applies all of his pressure then jumps to the other rail across from him in an upward zigzag fashion.
He manages to do this four more times but once he gets to the 5th spiral his feet slip and he loses his balance. Shadow swings his arms in an attempt to regain his balance but it's pointless. Shadow falls to the ground on his back, he lands hard but it doesn't look like he broke anything.
Shadow: Owwwww
He lays on the ground for a moment more then gets up and rubs his back.
Shadow: Well that hurt, stupid feet slip!
Shadow begins to climb the stairs again to restart the process. The camera cuts back to Drake and Cagalli; Cagalli is still surprise but Drake explains.
Drake: This is the reason why Shadow is getting better and you're staying the same. Shadow has becoming here every night since the first day of training, he spends and extra 2 hours every night trying to jump to the top of the stairs.
Cagalli still looks confused as she watches Shadow try again to jump to the top. He never seems able to pass the fourth spiral before falling but every time he falls he gets back up.
Cagalli: Why, Why does he do it?
Drake looks at her for a moment then answers
Drake: Because he wants to get stronger, he wants to become a professional Gundam Fighter and it's not just him, Nick goes to a gun shop every night to get better at using different guns, Roxas runs around the city every night to improve her speed, and Jack and Kenny continue to work on the Gundams for an extra 2 hours every night. You're the only one who goes directly to bed after training, so don't turn around and tell me that you're training just as hard as they are!
When Drake brings up the others the camera quickly cuts to where they are. We see Nick practicing at a shooting range with a different kind of gun, Roxas running in the dark on all fours at full speed and of Jack and Kenny working on the Gundams. We cut back to Cagalli to show her deeply shocked.
Cagalli: Why, Why didn't they say anything?
Drake shrugs
Drake: They probably suspect each other of training every night but it's kind of like they have a silent agreement not to talk about it.
Drake notices Cagalli looks even more miserable. Drake sighs
Drake: However I guess it's not entirely your fault; after all you're the only one that doesn't have motivation.
Cagalli doesn't understand
Cagalli: Motivation?
Drake looks at her then turns back to face Shadow
Drake: Motivation, the reason we push ourselves to the absolute limit. Shadow and Jack are motivated by their dreams, Nick and Kenny are motivated by their own personal goals, and Roxas is training so that she can one day kick my ass. That girl cannot take insults well.
Drake smiles at the last part, Cagalli slightly grins at the joke. Drake gets serious again
Drake: But you never had motivation to push yourself to your limit did you. It makes sense when you think about it, you were ripped from Earth and drop onto a strange new planet which you knew nothing about, since then you been just following Shadow around not sure what to do. Shadow and the others had made it plainly clear that no one would believe you if you told them who you were, you need proof.
Drake: But how are you going to get proof, a DNA match would be the only undeniable proof any government official would accept, however that isn't as easy as it sounds. You would have to first find someone with access to your DNA, and by your DNA I mean the DNA of Cagalli Yula Athha that's on record, and trust me when I say that DNA recorders of Earth leaders are some of the most classified and hard to get information on Sora.
Drake: You'd have to be one of the top leaders in a well-informed nation to have that kind of information and anyone with that kind power isn't going to let you within 30 feet of them without an appointment and getting an appointment with them as you are now would be like trying to fight a bear unarm.
Cagalli is looking at him extremely irritated
Cagalli: So what are you trying to say, that it's impossible for me to ever get back to Earth to Orb, that I'm doom to spend the rest my days on Sora!
Drake looks at her for a moment then says
Drake: No it's not impossible; in fact you've already taken the first steps to getting to your goal.
Cagalli blinks surprise
Cagalli: Huh?
Drake smiles as he goes on
Drake: You see being a Gundam Team not associated with any nation has its advantages, when you get to a high rank nations will start doing background checks on you so they know how best to approach you whether you be an enemy, ally, or just someone they can use but that doesn't matter right now. What's important is that when the nations start doing background checks someone will realize that you're not crazy and that you really are Cagalli Yula Athha from Orb and when that happens I'm sure you'll be able to work out some sort of arrangement where you do them a favor and then they'll send you back to Orb.
Cagalli has been taking all this in carefully she now asks a question.
Cagalli: What rank will the team have to become before the nations start doing background checks?
Drake once again takes a moment before answering
Drake: Well it will depend on your battle and missions performances and bunch of other records but at the very least C rank.
Cagalli looks at him suspicious
Cagalli: Why are you giving me all of this information? I thought you said you wouldn't help because you don't like me and aren't you afraid that I might leach off of Shadow's power?
Drake looks to Cagalli then back to Shadow. The camera quickly cuts to Shadow to show him once again falling and landing hard on his back, we cut back to Drake and Cagalli.
Drake: I'm heavily invested in this team now, I want it to succeed but right now you're a large rock on this team's back that's weighing it down and since I can't get rid of you I have to motivate you to push yourself to your limit so that's why I told you how you can get back to Earth and Orb. I will warn you though if you think you can leach off of Shadow's power to get yourself to C rank you're sadly mistaken. Shadow isn't like Kira or Athrun, he's nowhere near as strong as they are, he barley has enough power to protect himself let alone another person, that's why he made sure every member of his team are on some level capable of self-defense, and if you're going to be a member of this team then you better learn how to fight.
Cagalli hesitates, she avoids eye contact with Drake instead she looks back at Shadow. Her eyes open wide in surprise, Drake seeing this and turns back to look at Shadow too. The camera cuts back to Shadow to show him jumping back and forth on the cement spirals only this time he climbed 6 spirals and he's still going.
Shadow looks excited, but as he jumps to the 12th spiral his feet give out on him and he falls backward, he's a good distance off the ground. He lands harder than normal on the ground and doesn't move for a moment. Cagalli panicking rushes towards Shadow.
Cagalli: Shadow!
When Cagalli reaches Shadow she gets on her hands and knees and lifts his head up.
Cagalli: Shadow can you hear me, Shadow, Shadow, Shadow!
Cagalli begins to slightly shake Shadow, there's obvious panic in her voice. Shadow's eyes are open but they look glazed over, suddenly he blinks then moans.
Shadow: Owwwwwwwwww that really hurt.
Cagalli breathes a sigh relief then yells at Shadow
Cagalli: You idiot are you trying to get yourself killed! What the hell were you thinking!
Shadow still trying to get his sense of surroundings back sits up
Shadow: Aw man you caught me doing my secret training.
Cagalli still tick snaps
Cagalli: Don't change the subject; what were you thinking doing this kind of dangerous training by yourself!
Shadow rubs his back and smiles at her
Shadow: I wanted to surprise you guys on the last day of training by showing you I could jump up the stairs the way Drake does but what are you doing here?
Cagalli not sure how to answer that turns to look for Drake at the door but Drake has already disappear, she turns back to face Shadow then says carefully.
Cagalli: I saw you leave the apartment tonight so I follow you to see if you're alright, have you been coming here every night?
Shadow nods his head believing her lie
Shadow: Yup, damn I thought I was being sneaky, I supposed you're going to tell the others about this.
Shadow looks sadden by this. Cagalli hesitates for a moment then gets up and rubs dust off her pants.
Cagalli: Tell them about what it's not like you actually made it to the top.
Shadow looks at Cagalli surprise and happy at the same time. Cagalli turns away and begins to look up at the spiral cement staircase.
Cagalli: Why do you do this to yourself, most coordinators can't even jump to the top of the stairs the way Drake does?
Shadow looks confused
Shadow: What does that have to do with anything?
Cagalli is growing frustrated; she begins to talk slowly as if to a child who doesn't understand.
Cagalli: Look you and I are naturals it's nothing personal but something like this is impossible for us to do, are genes just aren't program for it.
Shadow looks pissed
Shadow: Drake did it!
Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: Drake is a freak of nature!
Shadow yells
Shadow: How do you know I'm not too!
Cagalli takes a quick glance at Shadow's un-athletic and non-muscular body and then looks at Shadow like he's an idiot.
Cagalli: Yea you're not.
Shadow and Cagalli glare at each other for a moment then Shadow turns around and begins to climb the stairs again.
Shadow: Believe what you want but my dream is to become the greatest Gundam Fighter this world has ever seen and if I can't even do this then I have no hope of my dream ever coming true. So I'm going to get to the top of these stairs by jumping on the rails even if it breaks every bone in my body!
He says the last sentence with such determination that Cagalli is momentary stun. Shadow begins to jump up the stair rails. He only gets to the 4th spiral before falling again but he gets right back up and tries again, he does about the same. Cagalli watches him attempt 3 more jumps with little or no progress.
Cagalli (So this is what Drake meant when he said people with motivation can push themselves to their limit.)
Cagalli eyes take on a determine look
Cagalli (Well I have my own motivation now, if the only way to get back to Orb is to play this stupid game then I'll do it, I'll get stronger so I can rise through the ranks until I reach C rank!)
Cagalli gets on the ground and starts doing push-ups as Shadow attempts more jumps. The camera cuts forward in time to show Cagalli and Shadow walking home, in the corner of the screen the time and day is shown, 12am Day 15.
Both Cagalli and Shadow look sore it looks like they spent the whole time training. There's also an awkward angry silence. Shadow still annoyed with Cagalli from the earlier incident breaks the tension.
Shadow: Why'd you stay, if my training is so pointless why didn't you leave?
Cagalli also annoyed with Shadow
Cagalli: I stayed to make sure you didn't kill yourself that kind of training is too dangerous for you to do by yourself.
Shadow getting over his anger of Cagalli, smiles
Shadow: Then why were you doing push-ups and sit-ups?
Cagalli even more annoyed by Shadow's smug attitude says
Cagalli: I was bored so I figure I do some realistic training why you're doing your stupid training!
The scene ends with Shadow being offended and shouting back
Shadow: My training is way better than yours!
The next scene opens up in the eating area of Jack's ship. Nick, Jack, Kenny, Roxas, Shadow and Cagalli are sitting at 2 tables close to each other, in the corner of the screen the time and day is displayed 12pm Day 15. Jack seems to have asked the Gundam Pilots a question
Cagalli: What do you mean what weapons do we use in a Gundam Fight?
Jack looks annoyed
Jack: It's exactly what I said, what weapons do you guys want for your Gundams?
Roxas eating a chicken leg asks
Roxas: What does it matter doesn't the Gundam come with a set of weapons that we just have to get use to?
Drake walks over and answers
Drake: That'd be true if you guys were buying mass produce factory sold Gundams but Jack is making these things from scratch so you get your choice of weapon. Of course that's only if Jack can make them on time for your Gundam fight.
Everyone seems to accept this. Nick goes first
Nick: A beam rifle will be fine for me mate.
Roxas very excited now goes next
Roxas: Oh, Oh, Oh, can you make something that will imitate my gold claws, like, like beam claws or something like that!
Jack has been writing everything down in her PDA, she nods her head.
Jack: Yup I'm pretty sure I can do something like that.
Jack looks to Shadow next
Shadow: You don't have to worry about me; the beam saber that comes with Nightwing is perfect for me.
Jack nods her head, she seems to have already expected this. Kenny grins at Shadow
Kenny: It's not like you have any other weapon your good at.
Shadow annoyed at Kenny snaps
Shadow: Shut up!
While Shadow is glaring at Kenny Jack looks to Cagalli
Jack: What about you Cagalli, what do you want?
Cagalli thinks about this for a moment, we have a quick flashback of when Cagalli piloted the Akatsuki against the Destiny when she activated the twin beam saber.
Cagalli: A beam rifle for long range combat and a twin beam saber for close range combat.
Drake suddenly shouts
Drake: Absolutely not!
Everyone turns around surprise by Drake's sudden outburst
Drake: The twin beam saber is the stupidest weapon on the planet and the man who invented it should be shot!
Everyone is really surprise now, it's not like Drake to lose his composer over something like this. Shadow curious asks
Shadow: How do you figure that?
Drake still pissed says
Drake: Well for starters because there's a blade at both ends your defense stance is very limit, if you're doing a stabbing attack your opponent can just grab the blade and thrust forward and suddenly you're the one getting stab, plus you can't twist your wrist to change your blades angle because you'll end up slicing your own arm off, overall it sucks as a weapon!
Kenny looks at Drake skeptical
Kenny: What about the whole flow of motion thing?
Drake snaps
Drake: It's a load of crap and as long as I'm manager of this team none of you guys we be caught dead or alive using that weapon so pick another god damn weapon!
With that Drake storms out, everyone is still surprise by Drake's sudden collapse of composer. Tim walks up to them smiling kindly and explains
Tim: Sorry about that, don't take it personal it's just that the twin beam saber is the only weapon Drake has failed to master.
Everyone looks at him surprise
Kenny: Really?
Tim nods his head
Tim: Yup Drake is to the twin beam saber like Shadow is to guns, he just can't use it.
Shadow looks slightly annoyed by this comment but everyone else nods their head in understanding. Tim turns to Cagalli
Tim: You'll have to forgive me for saying this but I don't think the twin beam saber is a good weapon for you to use. I don't believe what Drake said about it being a bad weapon but it is a weapon that takes a large amount of practice to even begin to use it correctly and frankly you don't have that kind time left until your first Gundam fight.
Cagalli blushes in embarrassment as she realizes Tim is right. Shadow looks at her bored
Shadow: Why'd you even want that weapon in the first place your weapon is the Guan Dao.
Cagalli looks at Shadow like he's an idiot
Cagalli: You moron they don't make a weapon like the Guan Dao for Gundams!
Jack eyes open wide
Jack: Well actually I think can.
Cagalli looks at Jack surprise
Cagalli: What, really!
Jack has stop paying attention to her surroundings, she's quickly writing stuff down in her PDA.
Jack: Let's see if I do this, and combined this and do that and then rewired this
Shadow starts waving his hand in front of Jack's face
Shadow: Hey Jack come back down to Sora.
Jack blinks as she refocuses on what's going on
Jack: Huh? Oh sorry about that but yes I'm 100% positive I can make a beam Guan Dao for you!
Jack says this proudly. Cagalli is both surprise and slightly happy by this news. Tim claps his hands.
Tim: Great now that's settle, Oh by the way you no longer have to do stretching excises after your sparing matches instead everyone except Shadow will be using an NS system simulator.
Cagalli looks at him confused
Cagalli: NS system simulator?
Tim examples
Tim: It's basically a portable Gundam cockpit that's attach to a computer and simulates battles, it doesn't really help for battle experience but it's great if you just want to get use to the NS system. Anyway I was just giving you fair warning so see you guys later.
Tim waves goodbye as he walks away. Everyone waves back
Everyone: Bye/see you.
Shadow wipes his hands, he's finish eating.
Shadow: Well I guess it's about time we get back to training.
The inspiration training music comes back on as we reenter slideshow mode. All the pictures have the time and day on them and they go in order with no picture going over Day 29. The pictures show Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli training.
We can see that Shadow and Cagalli are getting better, and towards the end of the slideshow we see Shadow and Cagalli keeping up with Nick and Roxas as they jog at a pretty fast speed. We see all four of them almost dodge every single dodge ball, they're doing their step punch and step kick a lot faster now and it doesn't look like they're getting tired much.
They're easily hopping from square to square now and they're doing push-ups fast and easily. We can see that Shadow can now hold his own in his sparing matches with Roxas and Nick although they still beat him by a little. Cagalli is also doing better in her sparing matches with Roxas although Roxas still slightly wins.
Shadow and Cagalli are perfectly even in their sparing matches. We also see Cagalli, Nick and Roxas taking turns using the NS system simulator, Drake teaching, moving the steel blocks to the truck outside the dock. Shadow and Cagalli can now lift 2 steel blocks by themselves, Nick and Roxas can lift 3.
We also see Kenny and Jack working on the Gundams although we never see a Gundam in its entirety. The slideshow ends and the screen goes black. The camera goes back to normal to show the apartments, this time we're in Jack's room. Jack is lying face down on her bed.
We can see sunlight coming in from a window; Jack twitches then gets up and yawns. She has bed head and she still looks drowsy. She scratches her head then grabs her PDA from one of the pockets of her jean jacket. She turns it on and her eyes go wide and she yells
Jack: Oh my god you assholes!
She jumps out of bed and grabs her jacket and a pair of blue jeans on the floor and rushes out of the room. She curses along the way
Jack: Douchebags, assholes, jerks; I'm going to pay you all back for this!
She shouts this as she puts on her clothes while running to the stairs. The camera cuts to each of the rooms to show Cagalli, Roxas, Nick, Kenny and Shadow getting woken up by Jack's shouting.
Jack manages to get her clothes on while jumping down the stairs. She rushes to the kitchen area grabs a cup and pours water from the sink into it. She then gurgles the water and spits it out into the sink. She's just about to leave when Shadow and the others come down the stairs.
Shadow: Jack what are you doing?
Jack stops and turns around surprise
Cagalli: Why were you yelling?
Roxas annoyed
Roxas: I was sleeping!
Nick worried
Nick: Is everything ok mate?
Kenny also annoyed
Kenny: Now you guys know what I have to deal with.
Jack getting irritated
Jack: Its 10am, I thought you guys had somehow gotten me to oversleep.
Confused looks crosses everyone's faces as they come down the stairs.
Kenny: Wait its 10am?
Cagalli: Why didn't the alarms go off?
All eyes turn to Shadow for a moment. Shadow looks annoyed
Shadow: What!
Roxas says slowly
Roxas: Well no offence but don't you always wake up every morning and say "I swear to god I'm going to find that horn and drown it in a river"?
Shadow slightly offended
Shadow: I didn't actually do that; I could never find where Drake hid that stupid horn.
While they’ve been talking Nick has walk over to the table and pick up a letter. He opens it and quickly scans the letter inside.
Nick: Hey mates, I think Drake left us a letter.
Jack still slightly tick grabs the letter from Nick.
Jack: Give me that!
She scans the letter then begins to read aloud
Jack: Dear Rookies, congratulations you've somehow manage to survive 29 days of my training regiment. Tomorrow is your first Gundam Fight as an official Gundam team so today is your day of rest before the big fight. I've enclosed the codes for your weight suits, you can leave them off since you'll no longer be using them, and your body will need at least a day to get readjusted to its own natural weight. When you've gotten up get dress and meet me on Jack's ship. PS: Shadow you've had better come up with a name for your team by the time you've get here or I'll pick it! From Drake.
Jack begins to pass around the letter
Kenny: Well that's pretty nice of Drake.
Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli have taken off their weight suits and put them on the table. Shadow grins
Shadow: Wow this feels so weird, my whole body feels as light as a feather!
Shadow jumps 2 feet into the air
Shadow: Whoa did you see how high I jump!
He asks excitedly. Roxas has also taken off her weights and started jumping up and down, she can jump 5 feet into the air, and she is also excited.
Roxas: I know, I know, look at high I can jump, look at high I can jump!
Shadow and Roxas start jumping around like a couple of excited rabbits. Jack and Kenny are looking at them pretty impressed.
Kenny: That's incredible!
Jack: You guys really improved!
Nick and Cagalli have taken off their weights and put them on the table, suddenly the table collapses. Everyone jumps back surprise
Nick: I guess we must have put too much weigh on it mates.
Jack starts to examine the table closely
Jack: That's weird, that table is well made it should have been able to hold 600 pounds. The Vests are 60 pounds, the boots are 40 and the gloves are 20 which equal 120 pounds times 4 is 480 pounds. The table should have been able to hold it.
Jack goes over to examine the weights. She picks up a vest, she's surprise by how much it weighs and has to use 2 hands to lift it up.
Jack: There is no way this is 60 pounds, this is closer to 100 pounds.
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: I don't think you're very good at judging weight Jack.
Jack glares at him
Jack: Back at Tom's warehouse I lifted heavily stuff each day; trust me when I say this is about 100 pounds.
Kenny examines the vest while Jack looks at a glove. Kenny surprised can't lift it.
Kenny: Jack's right this has got to be close to 100 pounds.
Confused everyone gathers around
Jack: These gloves are 60 pounds and the boots are 80 pounds.
Shadow finally makes the connection
Shadow: Son of a bitch Drake must have been adding a pound or 2 every day to our weight suits while we were taking a shower.
Roxas has the everything makes sense look on her face.
Roxas: I thought it was weird that the weights never felt lighter as the days went on.
Everyone looks at the weights for a moment then Roxas and Shadow shrug.
Shadow and Roxas: Oh well.
Shadow and Roxas start jumping up and down again. Cagalli looks at them like they're nuts.
Cagalli: What do you mean oh well!
Shadow answer in an easy going manner
Shadow: Well it's not like we can do anything about it now besides Drake only did that to make us stronger.
Nick, Jack and Kenny seem fine with this answer but Cagalli still looks unhappy.
Cagalli: Fine but will you guys stop jumping around, god you guys are acting like a bunch of little kids. Will you start acting your own age already.
Shadow stops jumping and turns and grins playfully at Cagalli.
Shadow: I'll stop acting like a kid when you'll stop acting like an old hag.
Shadow doesn't say this insultingly but more playfully which throws Cagalli off. She doesn't know how to react to this and while she's distracted Roxas jumps behind her and grabs her breasts from behind.
Roxas: Cagalli stop being such a stick in the mud and jump with us!
Roxas still holding Cagalli's breast jumps up into the air and pulls Cagalli with her
Cagalli: Hey, put me down you perverted freak!
Roxas ignores Cagalli and continues jumping up and down while pulling Cagalli with her. Nick claps his hands.
Nick: Alright mates let's head to Jack's ship and see what Drake wants.
Everyone nods their head and then the camera cuts to the Gundam Hanger inside Jack's ship. The camera does close ups of the 2 new Basic Originals, there's also a new type of Gundam that can best be describe as a tiger looking Gundam.
It's body looks slim but not too slim like a balance of speed and power. It has a tail, four legs each with a set of claws. It's head has a full mouth of teeth, the camera turns around to show a shock/impressed Cagalli, Nick, Roxas and Shadow. Kenny and Jack are grinning in pride.
Shadow: Wow you guys are incredible; you made all this in just a month!
Kenny still grinning scratches his head
Kenny: Well it's all thanks to Jack, I didn't really do much.
Jack: Don't be stupid without your programming skills I would've never been able to operate some of the new machinery which would have forced me to do everything manually which would have taken 3 times longer.
Cagalli gestures to the new type of Gundam
Cagalli: What about that one, I've never seen a Gundam like that before?
Shadow taking a closer look at it comments
Shadow: It's defiantly an animal type Gundam.
Kenny nods his head
Kenny: It's the animal type tiger class Gundam.
Nick titles his head slightly
Nick: It looks more like a lion to me mate.
Kenny shakes his head
Kenny: The lion class is more bulky then the tiger class making it more powerful but less agile and fast. The leopard class is slimmer then the tiger class making it faster and agiler then the tiger class but it's less powerful.
Drake comes out of nowhere and says
Drake: What he's basically saying is that the tiger class is a good balance of speed and power.
Everyone slightly jumps at Drake's sudden appearance but it's apparent that they're getting used to it. Drake seeing their reaction says
Drake: Seriously you guys should start paying better attention to your surroundings. Anyway you did a good job building these Gundams in such a short amount of time Jack but I thought you said it would be impossible to build 3 Basic Originals in a month? Not only did you built 2 Basic Originals you also built an animal tiger class Gundam.
Drake says smiling at Jack. Jack doesn't want to admit Drake was right.
Jack: Yea well it looked like a lot more work than it really was, the Basic Original really is pretty simple
Drake interrupts with a comment
Drake: That's why they gave it the cleaver name of Basic Original.
Drake says smiling. Jack ignores him and goes on
Jack: I completed two Basic Originals in about two weeks so since I had a lot of time left I decided to build an animal type Gundam for Roxas.
Throughout this conversation Roxas has been mesmerize by the tiger type Gundam, now she looks to Jack.
Roxas: Wait that's my Gundam?
She asks holding her breath. Jack not sure what to make of Roxas's attitude nods her head.
Jack: Uh yea, you can find your Neon Gauntlet on the computer terminal in front of it.
Roxas walks to the tiger Gundam on 2 legs. She looks at it for a moment then hugs it well attempts to hug the left leg but naturally her arms can't go all the way around.
Roxas: So pretty, I love you my Gundam.
Everyone except Shadow looks at Roxas like she's crazy.
Jack: Uh Ok, anyway Cagalli your Gundam is next to Nightwing, Nick your Gundam is next to Roxas's Gundam.
Cagalli looks confused
Cagalli: They're both exactly the same so does it matter which one we get?
Jack gets pissed
Jack: They're not exactly the same!
Everyone blinks in surprise
Nick: They're not?
Jack still pissed
Jack: No the eyes are different colors!
The camera turns around and zooms in on the eyes on the Basic Originals, one has amber eyes, the other has blue eyes. The camera turns back to Cagalli
Cagalli: Oh, so did you install different sensors or something in them?
Kenny answers
Kenny: No, Jack just insisted that we match your eye colors?
Nick, Shadow, and Cagalli are confused. Drake smiles as he makes the connection
Drake: I see, Nightwing and Shadow have green eyes so you decided to have everyone's Gundam's eyes match their own eye color. Nick and his Gundam have blue eyes, Cagalli and her Gundam have amber eyes, ha even Roxas's animal Gundam has the same purple eyes.
Jack beams in pride. Shadow turns and takes a closer look at Cagalli's eyes.
Shadow: Cagalli looks like she has gold eyes to me.
Jack gets tick off by this comment
Jack: Gold isn't an eye color you idiot, its amber!
Jack shouts at him
Kenny: I still say she has hazel eyes.
Jack snaps at him
Jack: Are you blind, her eyes are obviously amber!
Cagalli is getting annoyed
Cagalli: Will you guys stop talking like I'm not in the room!
Jack looks to Cagalli apologetic
Jack: Oh sorry, anyway the Gundams aren't completed yet there're two more things we have to do.
Shadow is confused
Shadow: What do you still have to do?
Jack grins at him
Jack: We still have to paint and name them.
Jack leads them over to one of the computer terminals.
Jack: We're using an auto-paint machine which will paint the Gundams for us. All you have to do is pick the color and design, the computer will display what the Gundam will look like with color and design in case you want to change it. When you pick the color and design you want just hit enter and the machine will start painting your Gundam but be careful we're using Gundam paint which is impossible to get off so once you hit enter that's it. Also your Neon gauntlets are hook up to the computer so you can type in the name you want for your Gundam on the computer terminal.
Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli nod their head in understanding then they walk over to the computer terminals in front of their respective Gundams. Nick, Roxas and Cagalli put on the Neon Gauntlets; the Gauntlets hum to life when they put them on. The camera turns to Shadow, Shadow hits a few keys then steps back satisfied as the machine starts to paint Nightwing. Jack looks at him curious
Jack: That was awfully fast.
Shadow turns to grin at her
Shadow: I've been thinking about this since I first got Nightwing, I can't wait to see Nightwing when it's painted.
Shadow walks over to wait with Drake, Jack, and Kenny. Shadow gestures to Nick and Roxas walking over to them
Shadow: But it seems I wasn't the only one who's been thinking about this. What'd you guys pick!
Roxas eagerly answers
Roxas: My Gundam is to be called Quanlier (Note if you don't know what that is google it under mythology) and I'm painting it purple and silver!
Nick goes next
Nick: I name my Gundam Cowboy and I painted it the green camo pattern. What about you mate?
Shadow says proudly
Shadow: I'm painting it all shining black.
Jack looks at him like he's weird
Jack: What's shining black?
Shadow looks at her annoyed
Shadow: It's the black that's shiny looking not the dull grayish black; it's like the night's sky.
While they've been talking Cagalli has been staring intensely at her computer terminal. Shadow gestures to her and the others nod, they walk up quietly behind her. The camera looks over her shoulder to show that she's using the same pink color scheme as the Strike Rouge, Strike Rouge is also what she has under the name of her Gundam.
Shadow: Absolutely not, I refuse to allow any member of my team to use a pink Gundam!
Cagalli jumps surprise by Shadow sneaking up on her; then she looks annoyed.
Cagalli: Why not, and isn't it my decision anyway!
Shadow explains
Shadow: How a Gundam looks is just as important as how it performs, if a Gundam looks mean and menacing it will psych out or unnerved the opponent even before the fight and if it looks weird it might throw off your enemy's concentration but pink doesn't look menacing or weird. And no it isn't just your decision your part of my team which means it's also my decision.
Cagalli looks irritated but she can't deny the logic in what he says. Shadow pushes her out of the way of terminal and begins typing.
Cagalli: Hey
Shadow: Now red is a good threatening color.
Kenny adds
Kenny: Add some orange too, orange is a sweet color.
Roxas: OH put some yellow in to match her hair.
Shadow does what he's asked. The Gundam on the monitor now has a red, orange and yellow color scheme, Cagalli getting very irritated now.
Cagalli: Hey I didn't bother you guys when you were deciding your Gundam's colors so will you stop bothering me!
Jack looking at the name Cagalli's written down asks
Jack: Cagalli what's up with Strike Rouge for the name? That makes it sound like it's a knock off of a Gundam name Strike.
Cagalli blushes but doesn't say anything not want to let the others know how right Jack is. Shadow comes up with an idea
Shadow: I know how about La Rouge for the name.
Every nods their head in approve
Jack: La Rouge sounds like an awesome name!
Roxas: La Rouge I like it.
Nick: Good call mate.
Kenny: Not bad Shadow.
Shadow turns to Cagalli
Shadow: What do you think Cagalli?
Shadow asks grinning. Cagalli reluctantly says
Cagalli: It's not bad.
Shadow nods his head retypes the name and hits enter. The auto-painting starts to work on Cagalli's Gundam. Drake walks over
Drake: Speaking of names have you come up with a name for your team yet or am I going to pick one?
All eyes turn to Shadow. Shadow grins
Shadow: It came to me when I was picking Nightwing's color, The Shadow Knights.
Drake nods his head thinking
Drake: Is it The Shadow Knights, or Shadow's Knights?
Shadow grins at him
Shadow: The Shadow Knights, even I'm not that arrogant to name a team after myself.
Everyone seems happy by his choice of name
Jack: I like it; it's got that whole badass vibe to it.
Kenny: I think it give us a cool mysterious image.
Nick adds
Nick: But at the same time noble.
Drake nods his head
Drake: It's a good name, anyways it's going to take a couple of hours to paint your Gundams so how about you guys go to the mall and for the love of god buy some new clothes, your clothes look like and smell like shit!
Cagalli says defensively
Cagalli: That's not our fault Shadow, Kenny, Roxas and I have only one pair of clothes that we've been using for over a month.
Drake bored already throws them a card and begins to walk away.
Drake: I don't care; use whatever's left on that card to buy yourselves a couple of sets of clothes.
Drake walks away; Shadow and the others watch him walk away. The episode ends with Shadow grinning as he turns around to face the others.
Shadow: I guess we're going to the mall.
The episode opens up at night showing the place Shadow and the others are staying at. We cut inside Cagalli's room to show her sleeping, in the corner of the screen the time and day is displayed 11pm Day 14. Drake walks in the room and kicks Cagalli still in her PJs out of the bed.
Drake: Wake up!
Cagalli crashes to the ground, very startle she looks around and focuses in on Drake, she becomes pissed.
Cagalli: What the hell!
Drake begins to walk out of the room
Drake: Get dress, it's time we had our talk and if you go back to sleep I swear I'll throw you out the window!
Drake walks out of the room, Cagalli glares at him a moment then goes to grab her clothes. The camera cuts outside to show Cagalli and Drake walking down a street. We can see the moon and the streetlights are on. Cagalli is following behind Drake, she looks nervous. Drake breaks the silence
Drake: You know it's rude to eavesdrop on other people's conversation.
Cagalli is slightly irritated
Cagalli: You know it's rude to talk about people behind their back!
Drake stops and turns to look at her
Drake: Let's cut the crap, if I had my way you'd be kicked off the team but Shadow has got it in his head that you've got some kind of spark in your eyes and we both know how stubborn he can be.
Cagalli and Drake are glaring at each other
Cagalli: And what did I do during the training that caused you to dislike me so much?
Cagalli doesn't raise her voice but the anger is clear
Drake: I dislike you even before the training because in my opinion you're the worst type of person!
Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: You don't know anything about me!
Drake snaps
Drake: I know exactly who you are Miss Cagalli Yula Athha daughter of Uzumi Nara Athha.
Cagalli blinks in surprise
Cagalli: Y-you do?
Drake nods still glaring at her
Drake: You think I would just manage anyone without question, unlike you I have contacts and made some calls to find out more about you guys but imagine my surprise when I found out that you're the real Cagalli from Orb and not just some crazy nut-job. I made sure to get the file on you and that has everything you did during the wars in it.
Cagalli doesn't know what to do now
Cagalli: Then
Drake cuts her off
Drake: If you're going to ask for my help to get you back to earth you can forget it! I don't like you so there's no way in hell I'm going to help you!
Cagalli's anger quickly comes back
Cagalli: So you don't like me because in your opinion I'm the worst type of person but what type of person am I!
Drake yells back
Drake: You're a parasite! You can't do anything by yourself, you always have to leach off of others power!
Cagalli is shocked
Cagalli: Th-that's not true!
Drake doesn't let up
Drake: Oh really then tell me one thing you did by yourself to help end the Bloody Valentine wars!
Cagalli gets even angrier
Cagalli: I command a battleship during the first Bloody Valentine War!
Drake laughs
Drake: HAHAHAHHA, you actually think that, hahahhaha, no, no, no, Lacus Clyne took command of the battleships, she's the one who took charge and gave people hope and a target. As for you commanding the ship, that position was given to you out of polite courtesy because of your father. Face it, a monkey could do the job just as well as you did, oh here's an example when your ship got caught in some kind of wire you come up with the brilliant plan of cut it. I mean really you really thought that you were the best person to command the battleship?
Cagalli hesitates before speaking. Drake sees this and pounces
Drake: Having trouble thinking of something? Well to save time how about I start listing events you might try to use and then tell you why you're wrong. Let's start from the beginning and go with Desert Dawn, well first off you hardly ever went out to the front lines and when you did you had that bodyguard Ledonir Kisaka watching your every move. The only reason they held you in such high regards was because of the intel you gave them on the ZAFT mobile suits and that wasn't even your intel that was your fathers! Then you join the Archangel and let's face it the only thing you manage to do was break the record of most shot downs without dying. Then there was the battle of Orb against the Earth Alliance where you just sat in the command room and did nothing except rely on Kira, Athrun, and your father!
Cagalli tries to defend herself
Cagalli: I was commanding the Orb force and a commander doesn't leave her post!
Drake rolls his eyes
Drake: Please everyone in that room was three times more qualify then you to lead the Orb forces the only reason they had you in their was to give you the feeling of doing something without putting you in any real danger and like a sucker you bought it. Then you became the commander of the Kusanagi and we already went over how you suck at that.
Drake: Then you became a politician and the only way you were able to get away with half the stuff you did was because the other politicians look the other way out of respect of you father or because they knew the public loved you. Then came the second Bloody Valentine War, some will argue with me on this but it's my opinion it began with the Theft at Armory one.
Drake: Oh by the way are you really that naive that you thought you could talk the Plants out of using Orb technology on military projects or are you just that stupid? Then the fighting breaks out and what do you did, you follow Athrun around like a little lost puppy, I mean can you be any more of a burden and another thing when Athrun made the choice to get into that ZAKU Warrior to save both your lives why did you let him pilot it?
While Drake's been talking Cagalli is becoming more and more frustrated as she struggles to think of something to say in her defense.
Cagalli: It just sort of happen, there was no time to think
Drake cuts her off
Drake: So what you're saying is that instead of trying to get out of the situation by using your own power, you instinctively leach off of Athrun's power and you couldn't even do that right! The moment Athrun starts gaining the upper hand the poor little princess hits her head and blacks out forcing him to withdraw, talk about the very definition of a burden!
Drake: Then you got stuck on the Minerva while they pursued the thefts, now I can understand the reason for you not joining the fight if you wanted to keep a neutral stance for your nation but you and I both know that wasn't the real reason you didn't help them. The real reason was your own fear, your fear of conflict, your fear of fighting, and your fear of War, so while Athrun was growing more restless by doing nothing you were unable to do anything but sit and watch!
Drake: Then when Junius Seven was about to drop Athrun couldn't take it anymore and went out to help, but what did you do? You slept like a little baby while Athrun and the Minerva went ahead and save the day; even when you found out that Athrun had gone out you did nothing to help but just sat there once again leaching off his power. Then when you got to Orb you couldn't even do your job as politician right and your brother had to save you from your own incompetence again! While you were on board the Archangel you once again did nothing but take up space, moan and cry about how tough life is!
Cagalli has had enough
Cagalli: I try to help, I kept trying to stop the Orb forces but they wouldn't listen!
Drake: And whose fault do you think that was! YOURS, the reason your own men didn't listen to you was because of your own weakness, if you were a true commander then you would have try to force them to listen but instead you left that to Kira and the Archangel while you cry and did nothing but have a pity party! And what about when the Archangel was being pursued by the Minerva and it was obvious that Kira needed help, but no instead of helping him fight the Impulse you just sat and try to leach off his power, which almost got him killed!
Cagalli's anger, frustration, and desperation all boils over
Cagalli: But I made it up, I save Orb when they were under attack by ZAFT, I did that, ME!
Drake screams
Drake: Your father was the one who saved Orb not you!
Cagalli blinks surprise
Cagalli: What?
Drake goes on
Drake: I've got to give that guy credit, even though I don't agree with everything he said and did any man that can protect his nation even from the grave deserve the highest level of respect. It was the Akatsuki that save Orb; it wasn't your piloting skills that save Orb it was because you had one of the most advance mobile suits ever built. In fact it was because of your crappy piloting skills that you almost got it destroyed when you fought the Destiny, but world of wonders who once again comes to save you! Kira once again saved your sorry ass, and instead of continuing to try to fight you back out like the coward you are and let Kira take over!
Cagalli: The pilot of the Destiny was better than I was it made more sense to let Kira fight him while I go take command of the Orb forces at the command center!
Drake: So the moment a fight gets tough you back out and leach off Kira or Athrun to take care of it and don't give me some half ass accused like you had to take control at the command center because what did you do except sit on your ass and wait for Djibril to be found? Then after the battle was over and Kira and Athrun had won it for you, all you had to do was tell the people of the World that you were no longer with Djibril but you couldn't even do that, this time you had to leach off of Lacus's power to help you! Which brings me to my final point, why didn't you go with the Archangel to stop Durandal?
Cagalli doesn't know what to say
Cagalli: I-I had to tend to my responsibilities as Orb's leader.
Drake: Please you had over a dozen different people you could have left in charge that would have done a better job then you, in reality you had to leach off of Kira, Athrun, Lacus and the whole crew of the Archangel because you were too weak to do anything and that's why I don't like!
There's a very sad silence as Cagalli fails to think of anything to say in her defense.
Cagalli: If you thought this all along then why did you even bother putting me through the training regiment in the first place?
She asks miserably. Drake looks at her and sighs
Drake: Well in all honesty I expected you'd quit sometime in the first day of training, I thought you think along the lines of "I can't possibly continue, my hands are shaking this bad from just half-a-day's training, if Kira or Athrun were here they could do it but I'm nowhere near as strong as they are."
Cagalli looks away
Cagalli (He really is good at reading people, that's almost exactly what would have happen if I hadn't notice Shadow's hand shaking too.)
Drake breaks Cagalli's chain of thought
Drake: The fact that you didn't was a very big surprise to me, but just showing up to something and putting every fiber of your being into something are two completely different things!
Cagalli is on the defensive
Cagalli: I am putting all my effort into the training!
Drake snaps
Drake: No you're not! You're just going through the motions, you're not pushing yourself to your limit but since you can't seem to see that let me show you!
While they've been talking Drake has lead Cagalli to the building where he makes them climb the stairs. Drake gestures to it then walks inside, Cagalli confused follows him inside.
Cagalli: What did you want to show me here?
Drake walks over to the door that leads to the stairs.
Drake: What true effort looks like!
Drake slightly opens the door and gestures for her to take a peek. He also puts a finger over his mouth to tell her to be quiet. Cagalli looks annoyed but takes a look anyway, we cut inside the spiral staircase room to see Shadow. He's about 20 steps up from the bottom of the staircase and has hop onto the rail. The camera cuts back to Cagalli and Drake, Cagalli looks confused.
Cagalli: That's Shadow, what's he doing here this late?
The camera goes back to Shadow to show him tense and then jump to the spiral rail across from him. We cut quickly back to Cagalli to show deep surprise
Cagalli: What!
We cut back to Shadow to show him actually make the jump to the side of the cement rail across from him this time. He turns before he applies all of his pressure then jumps to the other rail across from him in an upward zigzag fashion.
He manages to do this four more times but once he gets to the 5th spiral his feet slip and he loses his balance. Shadow swings his arms in an attempt to regain his balance but it's pointless. Shadow falls to the ground on his back, he lands hard but it doesn't look like he broke anything.
Shadow: Owwwww
He lays on the ground for a moment more then gets up and rubs his back.
Shadow: Well that hurt, stupid feet slip!
Shadow begins to climb the stairs again to restart the process. The camera cuts back to Drake and Cagalli; Cagalli is still surprise but Drake explains.
Drake: This is the reason why Shadow is getting better and you're staying the same. Shadow has becoming here every night since the first day of training, he spends and extra 2 hours every night trying to jump to the top of the stairs.
Cagalli still looks confused as she watches Shadow try again to jump to the top. He never seems able to pass the fourth spiral before falling but every time he falls he gets back up.
Cagalli: Why, Why does he do it?
Drake looks at her for a moment then answers
Drake: Because he wants to get stronger, he wants to become a professional Gundam Fighter and it's not just him, Nick goes to a gun shop every night to get better at using different guns, Roxas runs around the city every night to improve her speed, and Jack and Kenny continue to work on the Gundams for an extra 2 hours every night. You're the only one who goes directly to bed after training, so don't turn around and tell me that you're training just as hard as they are!
When Drake brings up the others the camera quickly cuts to where they are. We see Nick practicing at a shooting range with a different kind of gun, Roxas running in the dark on all fours at full speed and of Jack and Kenny working on the Gundams. We cut back to Cagalli to show her deeply shocked.
Cagalli: Why, Why didn't they say anything?
Drake shrugs
Drake: They probably suspect each other of training every night but it's kind of like they have a silent agreement not to talk about it.
Drake notices Cagalli looks even more miserable. Drake sighs
Drake: However I guess it's not entirely your fault; after all you're the only one that doesn't have motivation.
Cagalli doesn't understand
Cagalli: Motivation?
Drake looks at her then turns back to face Shadow
Drake: Motivation, the reason we push ourselves to the absolute limit. Shadow and Jack are motivated by their dreams, Nick and Kenny are motivated by their own personal goals, and Roxas is training so that she can one day kick my ass. That girl cannot take insults well.
Drake smiles at the last part, Cagalli slightly grins at the joke. Drake gets serious again
Drake: But you never had motivation to push yourself to your limit did you. It makes sense when you think about it, you were ripped from Earth and drop onto a strange new planet which you knew nothing about, since then you been just following Shadow around not sure what to do. Shadow and the others had made it plainly clear that no one would believe you if you told them who you were, you need proof.
Drake: But how are you going to get proof, a DNA match would be the only undeniable proof any government official would accept, however that isn't as easy as it sounds. You would have to first find someone with access to your DNA, and by your DNA I mean the DNA of Cagalli Yula Athha that's on record, and trust me when I say that DNA recorders of Earth leaders are some of the most classified and hard to get information on Sora.
Drake: You'd have to be one of the top leaders in a well-informed nation to have that kind of information and anyone with that kind power isn't going to let you within 30 feet of them without an appointment and getting an appointment with them as you are now would be like trying to fight a bear unarm.
Cagalli is looking at him extremely irritated
Cagalli: So what are you trying to say, that it's impossible for me to ever get back to Earth to Orb, that I'm doom to spend the rest my days on Sora!
Drake looks at her for a moment then says
Drake: No it's not impossible; in fact you've already taken the first steps to getting to your goal.
Cagalli blinks surprise
Cagalli: Huh?
Drake smiles as he goes on
Drake: You see being a Gundam Team not associated with any nation has its advantages, when you get to a high rank nations will start doing background checks on you so they know how best to approach you whether you be an enemy, ally, or just someone they can use but that doesn't matter right now. What's important is that when the nations start doing background checks someone will realize that you're not crazy and that you really are Cagalli Yula Athha from Orb and when that happens I'm sure you'll be able to work out some sort of arrangement where you do them a favor and then they'll send you back to Orb.
Cagalli has been taking all this in carefully she now asks a question.
Cagalli: What rank will the team have to become before the nations start doing background checks?
Drake once again takes a moment before answering
Drake: Well it will depend on your battle and missions performances and bunch of other records but at the very least C rank.
Cagalli looks at him suspicious
Cagalli: Why are you giving me all of this information? I thought you said you wouldn't help because you don't like me and aren't you afraid that I might leach off of Shadow's power?
Drake looks to Cagalli then back to Shadow. The camera quickly cuts to Shadow to show him once again falling and landing hard on his back, we cut back to Drake and Cagalli.
Drake: I'm heavily invested in this team now, I want it to succeed but right now you're a large rock on this team's back that's weighing it down and since I can't get rid of you I have to motivate you to push yourself to your limit so that's why I told you how you can get back to Earth and Orb. I will warn you though if you think you can leach off of Shadow's power to get yourself to C rank you're sadly mistaken. Shadow isn't like Kira or Athrun, he's nowhere near as strong as they are, he barley has enough power to protect himself let alone another person, that's why he made sure every member of his team are on some level capable of self-defense, and if you're going to be a member of this team then you better learn how to fight.
Cagalli hesitates, she avoids eye contact with Drake instead she looks back at Shadow. Her eyes open wide in surprise, Drake seeing this and turns back to look at Shadow too. The camera cuts back to Shadow to show him jumping back and forth on the cement spirals only this time he climbed 6 spirals and he's still going.
Shadow looks excited, but as he jumps to the 12th spiral his feet give out on him and he falls backward, he's a good distance off the ground. He lands harder than normal on the ground and doesn't move for a moment. Cagalli panicking rushes towards Shadow.
Cagalli: Shadow!
When Cagalli reaches Shadow she gets on her hands and knees and lifts his head up.
Cagalli: Shadow can you hear me, Shadow, Shadow, Shadow!
Cagalli begins to slightly shake Shadow, there's obvious panic in her voice. Shadow's eyes are open but they look glazed over, suddenly he blinks then moans.
Shadow: Owwwwwwwwww that really hurt.
Cagalli breathes a sigh relief then yells at Shadow
Cagalli: You idiot are you trying to get yourself killed! What the hell were you thinking!
Shadow still trying to get his sense of surroundings back sits up
Shadow: Aw man you caught me doing my secret training.
Cagalli still tick snaps
Cagalli: Don't change the subject; what were you thinking doing this kind of dangerous training by yourself!
Shadow rubs his back and smiles at her
Shadow: I wanted to surprise you guys on the last day of training by showing you I could jump up the stairs the way Drake does but what are you doing here?
Cagalli not sure how to answer that turns to look for Drake at the door but Drake has already disappear, she turns back to face Shadow then says carefully.
Cagalli: I saw you leave the apartment tonight so I follow you to see if you're alright, have you been coming here every night?
Shadow nods his head believing her lie
Shadow: Yup, damn I thought I was being sneaky, I supposed you're going to tell the others about this.
Shadow looks sadden by this. Cagalli hesitates for a moment then gets up and rubs dust off her pants.
Cagalli: Tell them about what it's not like you actually made it to the top.
Shadow looks at Cagalli surprise and happy at the same time. Cagalli turns away and begins to look up at the spiral cement staircase.
Cagalli: Why do you do this to yourself, most coordinators can't even jump to the top of the stairs the way Drake does?
Shadow looks confused
Shadow: What does that have to do with anything?
Cagalli is growing frustrated; she begins to talk slowly as if to a child who doesn't understand.
Cagalli: Look you and I are naturals it's nothing personal but something like this is impossible for us to do, are genes just aren't program for it.
Shadow looks pissed
Shadow: Drake did it!
Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: Drake is a freak of nature!
Shadow yells
Shadow: How do you know I'm not too!
Cagalli takes a quick glance at Shadow's un-athletic and non-muscular body and then looks at Shadow like he's an idiot.
Cagalli: Yea you're not.
Shadow and Cagalli glare at each other for a moment then Shadow turns around and begins to climb the stairs again.
Shadow: Believe what you want but my dream is to become the greatest Gundam Fighter this world has ever seen and if I can't even do this then I have no hope of my dream ever coming true. So I'm going to get to the top of these stairs by jumping on the rails even if it breaks every bone in my body!
He says the last sentence with such determination that Cagalli is momentary stun. Shadow begins to jump up the stair rails. He only gets to the 4th spiral before falling again but he gets right back up and tries again, he does about the same. Cagalli watches him attempt 3 more jumps with little or no progress.
Cagalli (So this is what Drake meant when he said people with motivation can push themselves to their limit.)
Cagalli eyes take on a determine look
Cagalli (Well I have my own motivation now, if the only way to get back to Orb is to play this stupid game then I'll do it, I'll get stronger so I can rise through the ranks until I reach C rank!)
Cagalli gets on the ground and starts doing push-ups as Shadow attempts more jumps. The camera cuts forward in time to show Cagalli and Shadow walking home, in the corner of the screen the time and day is shown, 12am Day 15.
Both Cagalli and Shadow look sore it looks like they spent the whole time training. There's also an awkward angry silence. Shadow still annoyed with Cagalli from the earlier incident breaks the tension.
Shadow: Why'd you stay, if my training is so pointless why didn't you leave?
Cagalli also annoyed with Shadow
Cagalli: I stayed to make sure you didn't kill yourself that kind of training is too dangerous for you to do by yourself.
Shadow getting over his anger of Cagalli, smiles
Shadow: Then why were you doing push-ups and sit-ups?
Cagalli even more annoyed by Shadow's smug attitude says
Cagalli: I was bored so I figure I do some realistic training why you're doing your stupid training!
The scene ends with Shadow being offended and shouting back
Shadow: My training is way better than yours!
The next scene opens up in the eating area of Jack's ship. Nick, Jack, Kenny, Roxas, Shadow and Cagalli are sitting at 2 tables close to each other, in the corner of the screen the time and day is displayed 12pm Day 15. Jack seems to have asked the Gundam Pilots a question
Cagalli: What do you mean what weapons do we use in a Gundam Fight?
Jack looks annoyed
Jack: It's exactly what I said, what weapons do you guys want for your Gundams?
Roxas eating a chicken leg asks
Roxas: What does it matter doesn't the Gundam come with a set of weapons that we just have to get use to?
Drake walks over and answers
Drake: That'd be true if you guys were buying mass produce factory sold Gundams but Jack is making these things from scratch so you get your choice of weapon. Of course that's only if Jack can make them on time for your Gundam fight.
Everyone seems to accept this. Nick goes first
Nick: A beam rifle will be fine for me mate.
Roxas very excited now goes next
Roxas: Oh, Oh, Oh, can you make something that will imitate my gold claws, like, like beam claws or something like that!
Jack has been writing everything down in her PDA, she nods her head.
Jack: Yup I'm pretty sure I can do something like that.
Jack looks to Shadow next
Shadow: You don't have to worry about me; the beam saber that comes with Nightwing is perfect for me.
Jack nods her head, she seems to have already expected this. Kenny grins at Shadow
Kenny: It's not like you have any other weapon your good at.
Shadow annoyed at Kenny snaps
Shadow: Shut up!
While Shadow is glaring at Kenny Jack looks to Cagalli
Jack: What about you Cagalli, what do you want?
Cagalli thinks about this for a moment, we have a quick flashback of when Cagalli piloted the Akatsuki against the Destiny when she activated the twin beam saber.
Cagalli: A beam rifle for long range combat and a twin beam saber for close range combat.
Drake suddenly shouts
Drake: Absolutely not!
Everyone turns around surprise by Drake's sudden outburst
Drake: The twin beam saber is the stupidest weapon on the planet and the man who invented it should be shot!
Everyone is really surprise now, it's not like Drake to lose his composer over something like this. Shadow curious asks
Shadow: How do you figure that?
Drake still pissed says
Drake: Well for starters because there's a blade at both ends your defense stance is very limit, if you're doing a stabbing attack your opponent can just grab the blade and thrust forward and suddenly you're the one getting stab, plus you can't twist your wrist to change your blades angle because you'll end up slicing your own arm off, overall it sucks as a weapon!
Kenny looks at Drake skeptical
Kenny: What about the whole flow of motion thing?
Drake snaps
Drake: It's a load of crap and as long as I'm manager of this team none of you guys we be caught dead or alive using that weapon so pick another god damn weapon!
With that Drake storms out, everyone is still surprise by Drake's sudden collapse of composer. Tim walks up to them smiling kindly and explains
Tim: Sorry about that, don't take it personal it's just that the twin beam saber is the only weapon Drake has failed to master.
Everyone looks at him surprise
Kenny: Really?
Tim nods his head
Tim: Yup Drake is to the twin beam saber like Shadow is to guns, he just can't use it.
Shadow looks slightly annoyed by this comment but everyone else nods their head in understanding. Tim turns to Cagalli
Tim: You'll have to forgive me for saying this but I don't think the twin beam saber is a good weapon for you to use. I don't believe what Drake said about it being a bad weapon but it is a weapon that takes a large amount of practice to even begin to use it correctly and frankly you don't have that kind time left until your first Gundam fight.
Cagalli blushes in embarrassment as she realizes Tim is right. Shadow looks at her bored
Shadow: Why'd you even want that weapon in the first place your weapon is the Guan Dao.
Cagalli looks at Shadow like he's an idiot
Cagalli: You moron they don't make a weapon like the Guan Dao for Gundams!
Jack eyes open wide
Jack: Well actually I think can.
Cagalli looks at Jack surprise
Cagalli: What, really!
Jack has stop paying attention to her surroundings, she's quickly writing stuff down in her PDA.
Jack: Let's see if I do this, and combined this and do that and then rewired this
Shadow starts waving his hand in front of Jack's face
Shadow: Hey Jack come back down to Sora.
Jack blinks as she refocuses on what's going on
Jack: Huh? Oh sorry about that but yes I'm 100% positive I can make a beam Guan Dao for you!
Jack says this proudly. Cagalli is both surprise and slightly happy by this news. Tim claps his hands.
Tim: Great now that's settle, Oh by the way you no longer have to do stretching excises after your sparing matches instead everyone except Shadow will be using an NS system simulator.
Cagalli looks at him confused
Cagalli: NS system simulator?
Tim examples
Tim: It's basically a portable Gundam cockpit that's attach to a computer and simulates battles, it doesn't really help for battle experience but it's great if you just want to get use to the NS system. Anyway I was just giving you fair warning so see you guys later.
Tim waves goodbye as he walks away. Everyone waves back
Everyone: Bye/see you.
Shadow wipes his hands, he's finish eating.
Shadow: Well I guess it's about time we get back to training.
The inspiration training music comes back on as we reenter slideshow mode. All the pictures have the time and day on them and they go in order with no picture going over Day 29. The pictures show Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli training.
We can see that Shadow and Cagalli are getting better, and towards the end of the slideshow we see Shadow and Cagalli keeping up with Nick and Roxas as they jog at a pretty fast speed. We see all four of them almost dodge every single dodge ball, they're doing their step punch and step kick a lot faster now and it doesn't look like they're getting tired much.
They're easily hopping from square to square now and they're doing push-ups fast and easily. We can see that Shadow can now hold his own in his sparing matches with Roxas and Nick although they still beat him by a little. Cagalli is also doing better in her sparing matches with Roxas although Roxas still slightly wins.
Shadow and Cagalli are perfectly even in their sparing matches. We also see Cagalli, Nick and Roxas taking turns using the NS system simulator, Drake teaching, moving the steel blocks to the truck outside the dock. Shadow and Cagalli can now lift 2 steel blocks by themselves, Nick and Roxas can lift 3.
We also see Kenny and Jack working on the Gundams although we never see a Gundam in its entirety. The slideshow ends and the screen goes black. The camera goes back to normal to show the apartments, this time we're in Jack's room. Jack is lying face down on her bed.
We can see sunlight coming in from a window; Jack twitches then gets up and yawns. She has bed head and she still looks drowsy. She scratches her head then grabs her PDA from one of the pockets of her jean jacket. She turns it on and her eyes go wide and she yells
Jack: Oh my god you assholes!
She jumps out of bed and grabs her jacket and a pair of blue jeans on the floor and rushes out of the room. She curses along the way
Jack: Douchebags, assholes, jerks; I'm going to pay you all back for this!
She shouts this as she puts on her clothes while running to the stairs. The camera cuts to each of the rooms to show Cagalli, Roxas, Nick, Kenny and Shadow getting woken up by Jack's shouting.
Jack manages to get her clothes on while jumping down the stairs. She rushes to the kitchen area grabs a cup and pours water from the sink into it. She then gurgles the water and spits it out into the sink. She's just about to leave when Shadow and the others come down the stairs.
Shadow: Jack what are you doing?
Jack stops and turns around surprise
Cagalli: Why were you yelling?
Roxas annoyed
Roxas: I was sleeping!
Nick worried
Nick: Is everything ok mate?
Kenny also annoyed
Kenny: Now you guys know what I have to deal with.
Jack getting irritated
Jack: Its 10am, I thought you guys had somehow gotten me to oversleep.
Confused looks crosses everyone's faces as they come down the stairs.
Kenny: Wait its 10am?
Cagalli: Why didn't the alarms go off?
All eyes turn to Shadow for a moment. Shadow looks annoyed
Shadow: What!
Roxas says slowly
Roxas: Well no offence but don't you always wake up every morning and say "I swear to god I'm going to find that horn and drown it in a river"?
Shadow slightly offended
Shadow: I didn't actually do that; I could never find where Drake hid that stupid horn.
While they’ve been talking Nick has walk over to the table and pick up a letter. He opens it and quickly scans the letter inside.
Nick: Hey mates, I think Drake left us a letter.
Jack still slightly tick grabs the letter from Nick.
Jack: Give me that!
She scans the letter then begins to read aloud
Jack: Dear Rookies, congratulations you've somehow manage to survive 29 days of my training regiment. Tomorrow is your first Gundam Fight as an official Gundam team so today is your day of rest before the big fight. I've enclosed the codes for your weight suits, you can leave them off since you'll no longer be using them, and your body will need at least a day to get readjusted to its own natural weight. When you've gotten up get dress and meet me on Jack's ship. PS: Shadow you've had better come up with a name for your team by the time you've get here or I'll pick it! From Drake.
Jack begins to pass around the letter
Kenny: Well that's pretty nice of Drake.
Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli have taken off their weight suits and put them on the table. Shadow grins
Shadow: Wow this feels so weird, my whole body feels as light as a feather!
Shadow jumps 2 feet into the air
Shadow: Whoa did you see how high I jump!
He asks excitedly. Roxas has also taken off her weights and started jumping up and down, she can jump 5 feet into the air, and she is also excited.
Roxas: I know, I know, look at high I can jump, look at high I can jump!
Shadow and Roxas start jumping around like a couple of excited rabbits. Jack and Kenny are looking at them pretty impressed.
Kenny: That's incredible!
Jack: You guys really improved!
Nick and Cagalli have taken off their weights and put them on the table, suddenly the table collapses. Everyone jumps back surprise
Nick: I guess we must have put too much weigh on it mates.
Jack starts to examine the table closely
Jack: That's weird, that table is well made it should have been able to hold 600 pounds. The Vests are 60 pounds, the boots are 40 and the gloves are 20 which equal 120 pounds times 4 is 480 pounds. The table should have been able to hold it.
Jack goes over to examine the weights. She picks up a vest, she's surprise by how much it weighs and has to use 2 hands to lift it up.
Jack: There is no way this is 60 pounds, this is closer to 100 pounds.
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: I don't think you're very good at judging weight Jack.
Jack glares at him
Jack: Back at Tom's warehouse I lifted heavily stuff each day; trust me when I say this is about 100 pounds.
Kenny examines the vest while Jack looks at a glove. Kenny surprised can't lift it.
Kenny: Jack's right this has got to be close to 100 pounds.
Confused everyone gathers around
Jack: These gloves are 60 pounds and the boots are 80 pounds.
Shadow finally makes the connection
Shadow: Son of a bitch Drake must have been adding a pound or 2 every day to our weight suits while we were taking a shower.
Roxas has the everything makes sense look on her face.
Roxas: I thought it was weird that the weights never felt lighter as the days went on.
Everyone looks at the weights for a moment then Roxas and Shadow shrug.
Shadow and Roxas: Oh well.
Shadow and Roxas start jumping up and down again. Cagalli looks at them like they're nuts.
Cagalli: What do you mean oh well!
Shadow answer in an easy going manner
Shadow: Well it's not like we can do anything about it now besides Drake only did that to make us stronger.
Nick, Jack and Kenny seem fine with this answer but Cagalli still looks unhappy.
Cagalli: Fine but will you guys stop jumping around, god you guys are acting like a bunch of little kids. Will you start acting your own age already.
Shadow stops jumping and turns and grins playfully at Cagalli.
Shadow: I'll stop acting like a kid when you'll stop acting like an old hag.
Shadow doesn't say this insultingly but more playfully which throws Cagalli off. She doesn't know how to react to this and while she's distracted Roxas jumps behind her and grabs her breasts from behind.
Roxas: Cagalli stop being such a stick in the mud and jump with us!
Roxas still holding Cagalli's breast jumps up into the air and pulls Cagalli with her
Cagalli: Hey, put me down you perverted freak!
Roxas ignores Cagalli and continues jumping up and down while pulling Cagalli with her. Nick claps his hands.
Nick: Alright mates let's head to Jack's ship and see what Drake wants.
Everyone nods their head and then the camera cuts to the Gundam Hanger inside Jack's ship. The camera does close ups of the 2 new Basic Originals, there's also a new type of Gundam that can best be describe as a tiger looking Gundam.
It's body looks slim but not too slim like a balance of speed and power. It has a tail, four legs each with a set of claws. It's head has a full mouth of teeth, the camera turns around to show a shock/impressed Cagalli, Nick, Roxas and Shadow. Kenny and Jack are grinning in pride.
Shadow: Wow you guys are incredible; you made all this in just a month!
Kenny still grinning scratches his head
Kenny: Well it's all thanks to Jack, I didn't really do much.
Jack: Don't be stupid without your programming skills I would've never been able to operate some of the new machinery which would have forced me to do everything manually which would have taken 3 times longer.
Cagalli gestures to the new type of Gundam
Cagalli: What about that one, I've never seen a Gundam like that before?
Shadow taking a closer look at it comments
Shadow: It's defiantly an animal type Gundam.
Kenny nods his head
Kenny: It's the animal type tiger class Gundam.
Nick titles his head slightly
Nick: It looks more like a lion to me mate.
Kenny shakes his head
Kenny: The lion class is more bulky then the tiger class making it more powerful but less agile and fast. The leopard class is slimmer then the tiger class making it faster and agiler then the tiger class but it's less powerful.
Drake comes out of nowhere and says
Drake: What he's basically saying is that the tiger class is a good balance of speed and power.
Everyone slightly jumps at Drake's sudden appearance but it's apparent that they're getting used to it. Drake seeing their reaction says
Drake: Seriously you guys should start paying better attention to your surroundings. Anyway you did a good job building these Gundams in such a short amount of time Jack but I thought you said it would be impossible to build 3 Basic Originals in a month? Not only did you built 2 Basic Originals you also built an animal tiger class Gundam.
Drake says smiling at Jack. Jack doesn't want to admit Drake was right.
Jack: Yea well it looked like a lot more work than it really was, the Basic Original really is pretty simple
Drake interrupts with a comment
Drake: That's why they gave it the cleaver name of Basic Original.
Drake says smiling. Jack ignores him and goes on
Jack: I completed two Basic Originals in about two weeks so since I had a lot of time left I decided to build an animal type Gundam for Roxas.
Throughout this conversation Roxas has been mesmerize by the tiger type Gundam, now she looks to Jack.
Roxas: Wait that's my Gundam?
She asks holding her breath. Jack not sure what to make of Roxas's attitude nods her head.
Jack: Uh yea, you can find your Neon Gauntlet on the computer terminal in front of it.
Roxas walks to the tiger Gundam on 2 legs. She looks at it for a moment then hugs it well attempts to hug the left leg but naturally her arms can't go all the way around.
Roxas: So pretty, I love you my Gundam.
Everyone except Shadow looks at Roxas like she's crazy.
Jack: Uh Ok, anyway Cagalli your Gundam is next to Nightwing, Nick your Gundam is next to Roxas's Gundam.
Cagalli looks confused
Cagalli: They're both exactly the same so does it matter which one we get?
Jack gets pissed
Jack: They're not exactly the same!
Everyone blinks in surprise
Nick: They're not?
Jack still pissed
Jack: No the eyes are different colors!
The camera turns around and zooms in on the eyes on the Basic Originals, one has amber eyes, the other has blue eyes. The camera turns back to Cagalli
Cagalli: Oh, so did you install different sensors or something in them?
Kenny answers
Kenny: No, Jack just insisted that we match your eye colors?
Nick, Shadow, and Cagalli are confused. Drake smiles as he makes the connection
Drake: I see, Nightwing and Shadow have green eyes so you decided to have everyone's Gundam's eyes match their own eye color. Nick and his Gundam have blue eyes, Cagalli and her Gundam have amber eyes, ha even Roxas's animal Gundam has the same purple eyes.
Jack beams in pride. Shadow turns and takes a closer look at Cagalli's eyes.
Shadow: Cagalli looks like she has gold eyes to me.
Jack gets tick off by this comment
Jack: Gold isn't an eye color you idiot, its amber!
Jack shouts at him
Kenny: I still say she has hazel eyes.
Jack snaps at him
Jack: Are you blind, her eyes are obviously amber!
Cagalli is getting annoyed
Cagalli: Will you guys stop talking like I'm not in the room!
Jack looks to Cagalli apologetic
Jack: Oh sorry, anyway the Gundams aren't completed yet there're two more things we have to do.
Shadow is confused
Shadow: What do you still have to do?
Jack grins at him
Jack: We still have to paint and name them.
Jack leads them over to one of the computer terminals.
Jack: We're using an auto-paint machine which will paint the Gundams for us. All you have to do is pick the color and design, the computer will display what the Gundam will look like with color and design in case you want to change it. When you pick the color and design you want just hit enter and the machine will start painting your Gundam but be careful we're using Gundam paint which is impossible to get off so once you hit enter that's it. Also your Neon gauntlets are hook up to the computer so you can type in the name you want for your Gundam on the computer terminal.
Shadow, Nick, Roxas and Cagalli nod their head in understanding then they walk over to the computer terminals in front of their respective Gundams. Nick, Roxas and Cagalli put on the Neon Gauntlets; the Gauntlets hum to life when they put them on. The camera turns to Shadow, Shadow hits a few keys then steps back satisfied as the machine starts to paint Nightwing. Jack looks at him curious
Jack: That was awfully fast.
Shadow turns to grin at her
Shadow: I've been thinking about this since I first got Nightwing, I can't wait to see Nightwing when it's painted.
Shadow walks over to wait with Drake, Jack, and Kenny. Shadow gestures to Nick and Roxas walking over to them
Shadow: But it seems I wasn't the only one who's been thinking about this. What'd you guys pick!
Roxas eagerly answers
Roxas: My Gundam is to be called Quanlier (Note if you don't know what that is google it under mythology) and I'm painting it purple and silver!
Nick goes next
Nick: I name my Gundam Cowboy and I painted it the green camo pattern. What about you mate?
Shadow says proudly
Shadow: I'm painting it all shining black.
Jack looks at him like he's weird
Jack: What's shining black?
Shadow looks at her annoyed
Shadow: It's the black that's shiny looking not the dull grayish black; it's like the night's sky.
While they've been talking Cagalli has been staring intensely at her computer terminal. Shadow gestures to her and the others nod, they walk up quietly behind her. The camera looks over her shoulder to show that she's using the same pink color scheme as the Strike Rouge, Strike Rouge is also what she has under the name of her Gundam.
Shadow: Absolutely not, I refuse to allow any member of my team to use a pink Gundam!
Cagalli jumps surprise by Shadow sneaking up on her; then she looks annoyed.
Cagalli: Why not, and isn't it my decision anyway!
Shadow explains
Shadow: How a Gundam looks is just as important as how it performs, if a Gundam looks mean and menacing it will psych out or unnerved the opponent even before the fight and if it looks weird it might throw off your enemy's concentration but pink doesn't look menacing or weird. And no it isn't just your decision your part of my team which means it's also my decision.
Cagalli looks irritated but she can't deny the logic in what he says. Shadow pushes her out of the way of terminal and begins typing.
Cagalli: Hey
Shadow: Now red is a good threatening color.
Kenny adds
Kenny: Add some orange too, orange is a sweet color.
Roxas: OH put some yellow in to match her hair.
Shadow does what he's asked. The Gundam on the monitor now has a red, orange and yellow color scheme, Cagalli getting very irritated now.
Cagalli: Hey I didn't bother you guys when you were deciding your Gundam's colors so will you stop bothering me!
Jack looking at the name Cagalli's written down asks
Jack: Cagalli what's up with Strike Rouge for the name? That makes it sound like it's a knock off of a Gundam name Strike.
Cagalli blushes but doesn't say anything not want to let the others know how right Jack is. Shadow comes up with an idea
Shadow: I know how about La Rouge for the name.
Every nods their head in approve
Jack: La Rouge sounds like an awesome name!
Roxas: La Rouge I like it.
Nick: Good call mate.
Kenny: Not bad Shadow.
Shadow turns to Cagalli
Shadow: What do you think Cagalli?
Shadow asks grinning. Cagalli reluctantly says
Cagalli: It's not bad.
Shadow nods his head retypes the name and hits enter. The auto-painting starts to work on Cagalli's Gundam. Drake walks over
Drake: Speaking of names have you come up with a name for your team yet or am I going to pick one?
All eyes turn to Shadow. Shadow grins
Shadow: It came to me when I was picking Nightwing's color, The Shadow Knights.
Drake nods his head thinking
Drake: Is it The Shadow Knights, or Shadow's Knights?
Shadow grins at him
Shadow: The Shadow Knights, even I'm not that arrogant to name a team after myself.
Everyone seems happy by his choice of name
Jack: I like it; it's got that whole badass vibe to it.
Kenny: I think it give us a cool mysterious image.
Nick adds
Nick: But at the same time noble.
Drake nods his head
Drake: It's a good name, anyways it's going to take a couple of hours to paint your Gundams so how about you guys go to the mall and for the love of god buy some new clothes, your clothes look like and smell like shit!
Cagalli says defensively
Cagalli: That's not our fault Shadow, Kenny, Roxas and I have only one pair of clothes that we've been using for over a month.
Drake bored already throws them a card and begins to walk away.
Drake: I don't care; use whatever's left on that card to buy yourselves a couple of sets of clothes.
Drake walks away; Shadow and the others watch him walk away. The episode ends with Shadow grinning as he turns around to face the others.
Shadow: I guess we're going to the mall.