IS: Infinite Stratos 3 ~ 8

Didn't I drop this?
Sure did.
Why is it here?
No idea.

Just for the hell of it, I started back in on episode three.

Entrances.

Lin Yin Fang - A Chinese Representative Candidate, Her personal IS is called Shen Long. Having attended junior high with him, She's the "second" childhood friend of Ichika. When they were young she told him that she would learn to make sweet and sour pork so that she could make it for him everyday. Ichika took this as her making him free food but in reality... she was meaning that she would be his wife.
       Now at the IS Academy, She trys to boot Houki from Ichika's room so that she could move in with him. In the process of attempting this, she issues a wager on the Inter Class Tournament.  Winner gets to have looser consent to one request.
      Their battle ends up interrupted by a strange, unmanned robot thing which the two of them fight and barely defeat.

Charles Dunoa  ~ Look! It's a male! heh... A French Representative Candidate, His personal IS is called Rafale Revive Custom II.  Being the second male in the Academy he ends up being roomed with Ichika, With Houki being booted. {poor Houki}
      All is well for a while, The girls are swooning over both Charles and Ichika but... yea.. Charles is really Charlotte.  She was sent to the Academy to spy on Ichika by her father/fathers company, The Dunoa Company is the third largest IS related company in the world.. but they are falling behind.
    She was supposed to gather information on Ichika and his IS, This was all discovered after Ichika walks in on "Charles" while she's getting out of the shower.  He forgives the situation quickly and decides to help her...



Laura Bodewig ~ A German Representative Candidate, Her personal IS is called Schwarzer Regen. She followed Chifuyu to the Academy from Germany, She hates Ichika with a passion when she first arrives due to something that happened a long time ago that caused Chifuyu to forfeit a Championship match.
     She attacks Lin and Cecilia, going far beyond just beating them she nearly kills the two before Ichika and Charles show up... Besting the two of them as well just before striking Charles down Chifuyu shows up.
 {No more fighting till the Inter Class Tournament.}
       Laura is some sort of super soilder or was... When the IS units were developed she didn't quite synch up with them enough to truely be "super".  She had nanomachines implanted in her left eye to help but that experiement failed.
    

The Tournament ~ It will be pairs matches, Lin and Cecilia both wanted to be Ichika's pair but he chooses Charles. Turns out however that the damage done by Laura to their bodies and their IS's Lin and Cecilia can't participate in the tournament anyways.
      Those who don't choose get paired up in a lottery...  Houki gets paired with Laura of all people. First round, Charles and Ichika Vs. Laura and Houki.  Laura's not much of a team player so, that was a bit of a mess.... Charles finishes Houki off pretty fast {disables her IS} then joins Ichika in the fight against Laura.
      It's not as one sided as I thought it'd be, With teamwork Laura goes down pretty fast but then..... Laura's IS mutates... with her inside it forms a giant...sword wielding woman thing.. The tournament attendees and students are all evacuated and Ichika ends up taking it down without killing Laura.
     Laura's IS is or was apparently equipped with a banned VT System, Valkyrie Trace System. When the pilots mental state, will and damage taken were all at the correct levels it would activate...and did.

Chifuyu Orimura

Date ~ A rumor was started around the school of anyone who won the Tournament would get to date Ichika. Since the Tournament was canceled no one won and no one gets to date him.
       This rumor was started with the ease droppings of a conversation between Ichika and Houki... Houki says that if she wins the Tournament he'd go out with her. However at the end of the eighth episode Ichika approaches Houki and says he would go out with her..... out shopping.  >_>   Clueless.

Charlotte Dunoa ~ Charles finally decides to show his real self and introduces herself as her true self, Charlottte. Of course this is a shock to everyone but Ichika.... Certainly since the night before the two of them were in the "guys" bath together.
        During her introduction Houki is angered {room sharing} and Lin busts into the room with her IS, Cannon set on Ichika she attemps to blast him and... Laura defends him with her own IS.  Laura turns, snatches Ichika up and kisses him!  Finally Someone Did It!  She proclaims that he will be her Wife.

Only 4 More Episodes.
Will watch them when they are all out.