“What? Did you buy the entire store?” H. Pearl giggled as her counterpart and Twilight finally returned after an afternoon away, their arms full.
P. Pearl shrugged as she gingerly set her stuff down on her mattress. “I’m an impulse buyer. Sue me. Lucky I had enough bits for it all.”
Twilight groaned as she sat down her own bundles next to Pearl’s. “I swear. You two are just as bad at this as your counterpart. I have to drag you both away from Hobby Town.”
Both Pearls nodded proudly. H. Pearl blinked as the kits were revealed. Most of them were High Grades but were all from several different universes. She also saw the MG Strike as well, and maybe another of the G-units. “Um. We haven’t watched all of these.”
P. Pearl nodded happily as she pulled out her Gafrans and set them with her paint. “Yeah. But I’m going by... Oh, what did Spike call it? Rule of Cool. I can’t help it.”
H. Pearl rolled her eyes. Point, as she saw several kits and paints set slightly apart from the others. “And those?”
P. Pearl sighed. “Future projects. As much as I want to, I’ll hold off on those for now. What the hell do I know about painting any of these?” She held up two in particular. “And what’s with these two? They’re basically the same damn thing. Just different colors. Plus whatever order they used.”
Twilight nodded as she sat down on the bed next to her girlfriend and pulled her close. “They are recolors of the same Gundam. Chronological order is what they were in.”
P. Pearl looked between the two. One of them, labeled as a Titans prototype mobile suit, was a deep blue, while the other, with an A.E.U.G. label, was the same color as the RX-78-2.
H. Pearl saw the question and smiled. “It’s the Anti-Earth Union Group. Both them and the Titans are the main sides in Zeta Gundam. There’s a reason for the color and the side change.”
P. Pearl relaxed a weight off of her shoulders at last. “Oh good. Was starting to worry. And, sweet Celestia, some of those kits looked old. Like. Older than I am.”
Twilight sighed. “They are. A lot of them have gotten what Bandai calls the Revive treatment. You got all newer kits. If the box art seems rather fancy? They’re newer and usually better.”
H. Pearl nodded, noticing the Unicorn, the F91, 00, Reborns, Strike, and more. Not all in the same Grade as well. “No way we can do these all this weekend. On top of watching the series. But you’ve got a backlog started.”
P. Pearl nodded excitedly. She wasn’t totally surprised she couldn’t do all of her kits in one weekend. Even she needed to sleep, and they had spent most of the afternoon away.
Twilight, though, saw a problem with all of this. “Where are you going to keep all of this? One model is easy enough, but this is something else.”
P. Pearl smirked. “You don’t know magic very well if you think that’s a problem. Princess Twilight can handle this for sure. The Moon hasn’t moved an inch since I set it on my shelf.”
Twilight wanted to argue that but bit her lips. What did she know about magic? Even after everything she and her friends had gone through, she still knew so little about it.
No matter how hard she pestered Sunset to teach her, or just let her go to Equestria more often.
H. Pearl, though, saw something else in her counterpart’s eyes as she spoke, and she held back a giggle. It could mean only one thing, but she held her thoughts for the moment.
Twilight saw it as well, but also held her thoughts for now.
P. Pearl, though seemed not to notice it as she picked up the F91. Something about it seemed off compared to most Gundams. “Did it shrink or something? Cause it looks smaller. I think.”
H. Pearl nodded excitedly. “There’s a reason for that.” She smirked as Twilight pulled the DVD out of the shelf where it sat next to Char’s Counterattack. “And there’s more.”
P. Pearl blinked. “Like what? You’re skipping a few series here. Hell. I almost grabbed the Sazabi while we were there.”
H. Pearl nodded as she turned everything on they needed. “Girl, you’re singing my tune. But that’s not what I meant. You skip to F91, and not miss anything. And then we go back and watch the others fill in the blanks. This was made before Unicorn and Narrative made things way more complicated than they really needed to be.”
“Don’t forget Thunderbolt and the Origin,” Twilight giggled, enjoying how she could get a rise out of her girlfriend if and when she brought those two up, earning a glare in the process.
P. Pearl looked over at another shelf. All along it was various Gundam manga. She made a note to look at them later. “Do we have time for all of that?”
H. Pearl nodded happily. “Well. Maybe not everything. We can watch F91 now, grab something to eat, build your model, and then watch Char’s Counterattack tonight. None of those kits have been updated in years, sadly. Except in Real Grade and Master Grade.”
P. Pearl slumped. Just her luck. She wasn’t going to try those until she had more experience with this. It didn’t feel right for some reason. “And tomorrow?”
Twilight smiled. “We can watch Zeta, and maybe ZZ. The Mk. 2 was in both.”
P. Pearl sighed, as her counterpart slid the disk into her player. It was better than nothing she supposed.
"So how did you two get together anyway?" P. Pearl asked, as she finished her High Grade Strike. Oh, how she hated stickers! What idiot at Bandai designed the Aile Striker Pack to need so many of them? "I mean. Princess Twilight is cute. You know. For a girl. But..."
Twi rolled her eyes as H. Pearl giggled. "We've known each other for a long time. I wasn't kidding when I said I used to watch Rosey here when we were younger."
H. Pearl nodded. "I actually had a crush on this goofball years ago." She blushed as Twi smiled. "I never really grew out of it. But it only took Timber Spruce cheating on Twi here for me to finally confess. We never looked back after she said yes."
Twi nodded, her hands clenching in fury at the betrayal. "I still don't know what went wrong. We were so good together. Then I come to find out he'd been seeing Sugarcoat for months! Applejack had to physically hold me back from ripping them both apart!"
Both Pearl flinched from Twi's fury. Very rarely had either of them seen either version of Twilight Sparkle this furious before. H. Pearl laid a hand on girlfriend's shoulder, doing her best to calm her down. Even if she found the display rather hot. Okay. Very hot.
P. Pearl, to her shock and surprise, felt the same, but quickly pushed it down as she added the Aile Strike to an Action Base. New as she was to Gunpla, even she understood it would never stand up on its own without one.
Now came one she was rather looking forward to, having finished the movie, as she opened the F91.
"Please tell me the Master Grade is better than this?" P. Pearl grumbled as she set her finished F91 on an open space on her twin's shelf. "Does Bandai have a thing with making backpacks sticker-heavy or something?"
H. Pearl rolled her eyes, as Twi giggled. "Tell me about it. And the Master Grade is much better when it comes to the sticker department. Most of them are. The newer ones at least."
P. Pearl nodded as she eyed her various purchases. That was a relief for sure, for she had bought a few. Even made a good start on getting all of the G-Project kits from Seed. Maybe she could do one tomorrow at least, as she finally noticed how late it was becoming, and just how tired she was.
Hopefully, she hadn't bitten off more than she could chew so early on. "So just how am I getting all this back to Equestria in one piece?" She asked Twi. "You and Sunset have the only way to talk to the princess around here."
Twi nodded. She had thought of that. "Very carefully of course. Assuming the nice weather holds up on Monday, we can both see you off."
H. Pearl nodded, as she wrapped an arm around her twin. "And I do plan on not falling through that damn portal again, thank you very much. Once was enough for me. I don't know how you ponies do it with four hooves and wings."
P. Pearl stuck her tongue out before everyone burst into laughter. It was better than nothing, the Pegasus thought.