"Aaaand. . . There!" I say in a happy voice, placing a paint brush down.
"Ready now, John?" Asked a boy in his early teens.
"Yep. Let's test out our new Gunpla!" I say, almost in a harmonious voice.
I almost forgot to introduce myself. I'm John Kohles. I am in my early twenties with dirt red hair, slight big build, wearing glasses over my hazel eyes. I have been into gundam ever since it was introduced in north America as gundam wing. I just finally put together my first kit bash model. It has the head of the Beginning Gundam, arms and shield from the unicorn banshee norn, and body and legs from the Gundam Throne Zwei. It's paint job is mostly navy blue with good and silver highlights. The eyes, colored a cobalt blue, stare at me.
"Hurry up, John! It's almost time!"
"Right! I'm coming!" I call out to my friend, Alan Flarin. He has a hair style similar to Axel from Kingdom Hearts, but it is dyed blue. In his hand is his own Gunpla. It is an Exia Gundam with the shoulder armor of the Dynames, but instead of the GN full cloak, it has missile pods on its shoulders. It also has the TransAm booster from the Amazing Exia. He dubbed it the Assault Exia. We were on our way to the arcade, because there was a system where you can pilot your gunpla virtually (like Gunpla builders beginning g), and, somehow, I felt today would be an amazing day to use the system.
As we arrive at the arcade, we notice that no one seems to be around (besides the owner).
"Excuse me, sir, but why is the arcade empty?" I ask.
The owner, who had tanned skin, black shoulder length hair, and wore sunglasses (even though we are inside a building) just sighed.
"No one is here because of a video game conference at Des Moines. Hard to believe they'd hold one here in Iowa."
All I did was nod. Me and Alan paid for our passes to play as long as we wanted, then went straight to the Gunpla pods. One look inside the pods shows that they are meant to resemble the cockpit of mobile suits. When I looked in my pod, I noted the area to place my Gunpla was a scanner.
"You ready, John? I'm not getting any younger!"
I got into the pod and placed my gunpla. It then asked for the information on my model, so I typed:
Model #: RGN- 000 Gundam Sora-Ventus
Weapons: GN beam tonfa x2
GN Hyper beam saber x2
GN Buster shield
Beam Vulcan
GN Fangs x 12
GN Bayonet Rifle(can be switched from bayonet to grenade launcher)

Optional equipment:
GN pistols x2
GNM (GN Minovsky) particle cannon
GN Grenades

Systems:
TransAm
Divine System (increases power outputs by 35% more)(particles are condensed into a silver colored hue)
GN Barrier
Minovsky particle condenser (psycoframe in arms open and increases particle output by 45%)

After I finished, I hit enter. Then, a flash of light engulfs my vision.
"What is this?!"

(3rd person pov)
As the light dies down, John's pod opens up, revealing an empty pod. Even the Sora-Ventus is no longer there.