#v1s wings are inside their back pack thing.

[batmecha]

7-s footage (drawn over this tiktok)

[arensika]

Those are stored inside V1's core! (the circle in the middle of their back)

Some of the more observant (obsessed with robots) people may have noticed that my design of V1 is slightly different from the official game design

Some parts of the design are slightly simplified for animation purposes (like removing certain unimportant markings), or aesthetic changes (like making the markings on the wing parts glow).

But the circle in the back of V1's wings pack is my explanation on how they store weapons!

Fun fact, in the base game it's canon that V models can retract their wings fully. V2 does this in the first fight with us. So the circle is not addressing that issue— it's moreso just me being silly and adding my own take on how V1 stores its weapons.

The matter energy system (ME System or MES for short) works as a sort of hammerspace where V1 can store weapons, items, and even some living things. The core of their MES is on their back. (that small circle). It serves as a video-game weak spot.

A well-placed shot on it can disable V1's MES system, meaning it can't switch weapons until its system has the proper time to reboot, which can take valuable seconds or even minutea depending on how bad the damage is.

This can be really bad if they were holding, say, a railcannon at the time when their weak spot is hit.

This all applies to V2 by the way, but due to having more recently updated software, V2's reboot time is significantly shorter.

Theoretically a human *could* be absorbed into the MES, but it'd likely kill them if they were just a normal human. Small animals like hampsters and cats would be okay though, or even small humans.

I like to think the inside of V1's ME system is just the sandbox level with a pile of ready to be used guns.

I just realized I typed this all and probably misinterpreted your question as "why didn't I draw the guns in the animation"

Simple! I would die if I had to animate all those guns. So take this overly complicated explanation (excuse) instead.

Tried animating how I think V1's wings work

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OSF AU - All the Little Children (10/?)

Part 10: In which the Hero reappears, a turtle comes to the rescue, and a panicking pack of preteens discuss the power of propaganda.

Content warnings: None, aside from the usual warnings about Garp’s total lack of parenting skills.

Once again, the punch-happy grandpa appeared out of nowhere on sleepy little Dawn Island. Naruto hadn’t worked out where he landed, though he knew the guy was a Marine and had to dock his ship somewhere since he sure as hell didn’t live on the island. Instead, Naruto kept patrols of clones running through the forest in the shape of bugs and other stuff, trying to be sure no one got caught off guard by the guy ever again. Thus, Naruto was the first one to know when Garp was headed their way.

While Kei-sensei lived farther up the mountain to give Fū some space, she came down almost every day to help with training and making them non-wild food and whatever else the FNG trio needed (though she made a funny face whenever she heard the name). Naruto had told her about Luffy and Ace and Sabo and their shitty grandpa, and he didn’t need to be a sensor to know she wasn’t happy about the situation.

And she hadn’t come down the mountain today. Not yet.

Naruto cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, “Time out!”

Gaara let Sabo yank his pipe out of a fist made of sand, while Luffy had Fū in a rubbery headlock, and Ace got dog-piled by Yang Kurama, Shukaku, and Chōmei the instant his and Naruto’s sparring match ground to a screeching halt. Okay, sure, Naruto had been a bit distracted by impending doom, but he could handle himself without their help.

“Why’d you stop?” Usually, Ace would have thrown in in a curse or a taunt, but Naruto guessed he could sense the sudden tension. Even Yang Kurama, who was sitting on Ace’s leg, didn’t look happy.

“Your evil grandpa just reached the forest,” Naruto said in a grim voice.

Everyone with visible skin went pale with fear. The Tailed Beasts bristled instead.

Except for one. “Who is this ‘evil grandpa’?” asked Isobu.

“Remember when we told Keisuke about how we became friends in the face of a greater foe?” Gaara asked, thought it sounded a bit like he didn’t really want an answer. “It’s him.”

“Oh,” said Isobu, more thoughtfully this time.

After that, everyone else was so busy fleeing toward the FNG base—so named because it sounded cool and because “base” was what they were using it for—and toward the “safety” of the trapped zones that only Naruto saw Isobu curl into a ball and roll away. Since the bear on stilts mostly didn’t notice the Tailed Beasts unless they were biting him, Naruto figured he’d be fine, and probably fast enough to reach Kei-sensei if he kept rolling.

Several minutes of controlled-panic running later, the shouting started. “You can run, but you can't hide, brats!”

Naruto signaled Fū with his left hand, and she and Chōmei did a spin on their next step that ended in a blizzard of sparky powder shooting toward the direction Garp might’ve been. It probably didn’t do much other than make him look like the world’s scariest victim of a glitter prank, but it got everywhere and it itched pretty bad. The attack bought them a few precious seconds—long enough for Chōmei to spit thirty meters of sticky silk across the shortest path between Garp and their group.

Up ahead, Luffy whooped with surprised laughter as Gaara threw him over the mouth of an open pit trap and into the bushes beyond it. Sabo and Ace made the jump on their own, with Gaara sweeping after them on a carpet of sand that hid the trap’s exact dimensions from the enemy. Gaara also made sure that the ASL bros kept going, hanging back only to make sure Naruto and Fū were going to make it.

They almost made it.

But the bear crashed through a tree, landing just where Naruto had been running a split second before. Naruto yelped as the ground buckled and rolled, throwing him off balance and nearly sending him stumbling into Fū’s outstretched wings.

“You’re not the ones I’ve had the longest,” the old bear began, “but you’ve earned this, too. Fist of Love!”

Ohshit.

Naruto shoved Fū, preparing to take the hit because it’d take him less time to heal—

“Reverse Summoning Jutsu!” squeaked Isobu’s voice from nowhere.

—And then there was Kei-sensei, wrapped up in Tailed Beast chakra and blocking the punch with one glowing hand. The energy that made a V1 chakra cloak dangerous rippled and dispersed the force of the punch, sending shockwaves through the air but nobody else.

Why hadn’t any of them thought of that? What the hell?

“Who the hell are you supposed to be?” Garp demanded, though he pulled back and shook out his fist, like he’d finally hit something too tough or weird to break.

Kei-sensei stood up to her full height—still way smaller than Garp—and said, “Kids, run. I can handle this.”

“Kei-sensei, you didn’t fight him before,” Naruto protested, even though he could feel Fū pulling on his arm and the others needed him. He’d designed most of the traps around their base and they were mostly armed, still.

“That was an order, Naruto,” Kei-sensei told him flatly. “Go.”

Naruto opened his mouth to argue more, but Fū finally yanked him off-balance so she could get him to rejoin the others. And anyway, his voice would have been drowned out by the immediate, deafening slamming noises and flying debris that followed, because Kei-sensei and Garp hadn’t wasted any time getting right down to the fighting part.

Fū flew them across the covered pit even though Gaara would never have let them fall in, and even if carrying Naruto’s uncooperative weight with one arm was really bad for her balance. When she let go, Naruto, Fū, and Gaara all tore after the ASL brothers like their lives depended on it.

Something exploded behind them.

The FNG group ran faster.

Naruto skidded to a stop once he reached the open end of one of their many side tunnels. After the bear on stilts had plowed through last time, they’d made sure all the entrances were too small for him to get in. Luffy and his older brothers, though, were small enough to fit just fine. All three of them brandished pipes in a white-knuckled grip until they recognized the other gang of kids.

“Where’s Gramps?” Ace asked, still cautious.

“Keisuke appeared,” Gaara explained, which was kind of a lame explanation. Summed things up, though.

Naruto bit the side of his thumb, trying to think of ways to weaponize that reverse-summoning trick. “So maybe we should—”

Another explosion rocked the forest.

“I guess they’re still busy?” Fū guessed, looking over her shoulder warily. “I mean, if there’s anyone who could stop the Tidal Blade…”

“Are you kidding?” Ace gaped at her, completely stunned. “I hope she kicks his ass into next week!”

“But she’s the—” Fū began.

“Wait, no,” Sabo began, holding out his hands in an attempt to stop the fight.

But Naruto had long since lost patience.

“Will you shut up?” Naruto burst out, glaring at Fū with his connection to Yang Kurama acting up. “Kei-sensei’s never done anything to you, or to any of us! What the hell is your problem?!”

“She’s the kind of person who gives all jinchūriki a bad name!” Fū shouted back. “There was this village, in the middle of the Land of Fire—one of yours—and sh-she killed everyone there, and she’s killed whole t-t-teams and I-I don’t want that to be us!”

Naruto froze, while Fū fought to keep from crying. She's really that afraid of Kei-sensei?

“But isn’t that what shinobi are?” Gaara broke in, drawing everyone’s attention. Under their stares, he just said in a flat voice, “Shinobi are weapons that serve their villages. Keisuke is a strong kunoichi, but she’s easily what any of us could grow up to be. There’s no way to go through shinobi life without doing something terrible. Even so…” Gaara trailed off for a second, thinking. As Fū sniffled, he asked, “Who told you Keisuke was untrustworthy?”

“Only everyone,” Fū mumbled, rubbing her reddened eyes. “Shibuki and my tutors and…”

“I don’t know about everyone,” Gaara said after a little longer, crouching next to Fū. “But Keisuke is the reason I can talk to Shukaku now. Why we don’t hate each other.”

“Huh?”

“She and Isobu helped us learn to talk, instead of fighting,” Gaara explained.

Naruto scratched his head. “And the only reason we know each other is because Shukaku finally got in contact with Yang Kurama and Yin Kurama, back when we were little. He couldn’t do that before.”

“And she makes us yummy food!” Luffy said, hugging Fū with his rubbery arms. Once his stretching yanked him into her shoulder, he added, “So don’t be sad, Fū! We’re all okay right now!”

Fū bit her lip and didn’t respond, other than to hug Luffy back.

Naruto sighed. What a mess. “Look, we’ll talk about this later. Right now, let’s just go inside.”

A few hours passed, and Luffy ate all their food with Ace and Sabo’s help because no one wanted to go out and get another tiger. Fū sat and sulked for most of it, not even doing more than picking at her food and seeming sick to her stomach. Gaara had Shukaku on his knee and Chōmei on his shoulder, and the three of them talked really quietly for a while after dinner.

Naruto and Yang Kurama waited at the entrance of the cave until Isobu rolled in.

��Is it done?” Yang Kurama asked his turtle-like brother.

“Well, they are heading this way and neither of them are dead.” Isobu’s tails wiggled. “The rest is going to be part of our talk next.”

“Ugh, words. And with a human none of us like,” Yang Kurama muttered, settling onto Naruto’s leg and lowering his head onto his paws. “Wake me when it is over.”