Scene 1: Bright New Day at Unmei (Morning 1: All)

Ignored, and the situation had escalated. Again, not a situation she was unused to. At this point, she was acting on pure reflex. "Hey, hey, hey! Will the lot of you just cut it out?" She grumbled, stepping in between the two parties and extending her arms, pushing the small girl back by her shoulder and the boy away by his chest. "It's way too early for a dust-up. Lay off, the lot of you."

With a glance toward the teachers, Mushroom Head gives a shake and a pale pink dust sprinkles down. Her tone shifts to something closer to dismissive than angry. "I don't care. I'm going to have my breakfast. Leave us alone, weird kid."

With that she saunters over to Psychopomp apparently content to collects her syllabus and head to the dining hall. The others start to follow but keep an eye on Mirai.

"Uh huh, you'd better run." Akira was hyped, ready to throw down. She had already planned how to dodge around Lotte, use her as cover to dodge Muscles, disable miss-right-guard, and pop mushbrains in her big stupid face. But now that mushbrains was walking away, there was no one to punch.

Akira stood for a few seconds, almost confused. Her heart rate slowed, and she began to calm down.

She began to see Lotte as a person again, instead of a barrier.

"Oh. Hi. Did you say something? What was up with those girls? Weird huh?" It all slipped out as a stream of consciousness as the last bit of adrenalin keeping Mirai's body awake faded. The world spun and Akira fell to her knees.

Having paid attention to the goings on as well as many of the other things taking place Dan/Josh asked the teacher in a rather casual off-handed manner as he got his syllabus, "So you guys actually allow students to use their powers upon other students or is manipulating other students how you weed out the weak from the strong so that only the strong end up ruling the school?"

"Yeah. Weird." Lotte sighed, knowing well by now it was better to just smile and nod to most people. She actually didn't find anything weird about this, typical highschool interaction... Save for the tiniest girl around prepping to deck the queen of the castle. "Hey, you mentioned something about waking up in a different body, right?"

Psychopomp looks up toward the top of the dorm building, clearly making it so his gaze could not see the exchange Dan is asking about. He lazily holds out a packet of papers like he has been giving the other students. "Don't know what'chya talkin' 'bout kid."

Dan/Josh took the packet saying, "Ah right, thanks. Always good to know how things really stand." He steps away letting others get their syllabi thinking to himself, 'Well so much for morality this was definitely no hero academy perhaps vigilante was the correct word for it but what kind of world am I in now where this kind of behavior would be considered allowable.' as he began looking through the syllabus he was now wondering what they might be teaching here but he was also paying attention to the conversations taking place around him.

DeJoker - give me a notice roll.

Ana watches the interaction carefully, the realm of possibilities collapsed and her headache began to recede, as she stands up mushroom heads minions fall in to defend her.

*Typical, queens always have soldiers to do their dirty work.* Ana had been a queen once, in a previous life, she knew how these things worked.

An she began to move towards the not quite an altercation yet, cold liquid black smoke began dripping from her hands to the ground. It pooled behind her eddies of cold spreading across the flagstones away as it slowly dissipated. People in the courtyard moved away as though the smoke was somehow dangerous.

Ana pulled back just before blue haired girl stepped in between the adversaries, causality shifted and the future changed. The inky dark smoke from her hands receded, not collapsing entirely but to a point where only the faintest tendrils remained.

*What the hell?*

As the mushroom queen and her squad departed the possibilities began to multiply again overwhelming her mind. Ana closed her eyes and took another deep breath.

A couple more quick steps brought her to the tiny tough girl and the blue haired one, *Just focus, one thing at a time.*

"Anika," she said offering a hand to the girl on her knees, darkness swirled lazily around her fingers drifting slowly towards the floor. Possibilities collapsed and she withdrew the hand almost as quickly as she had offered it, "Perhaps not."

"We are neighbors," she says smiling to the blue haired girl. Her accent was soft, Slavic, Russian, perhaps Ukrainian. "I saw you this morning, leaving your room. I ah, I like your hair."

She smiles again, "Oxana, Ana, you can call me Anika, Ana." She looks about quickly pushing her hair back behind an ear, "I should go, get my books and some toast before I throw up again. Do you like toast?"

Ana looks back at the girl on her knees then at her hands, "Look I am sorry I would help you up but that would not be so good. In any eventuality."

"That's ok". Akira tries to stand up on her own, but her swimming head prevents it. Instead, she just takes a comfortable seat on the grass.

"Right. Bodies. Yeah, I got a new one. Seems broken though. My old one was way better"

Lotte saw the new person approaching - The one from this earlier - And breathed in, preparing for whatever absurdity was about to take hold. "Oh, yeah. You ditch that hangover already?" She replied casually, before looking slightly taken aback and twirling a strand of hair around her finger. "Oh, yeah... It's nice, I guess. Thanks. I'm L... Hang on." She didn't care how suspicious or stupid she looked. She wanted out of this fever dream. She'd probably taken the bad choice to share a drink with a customer. Right? And they'd spiked it. Somehow. Her drink. On her watch. A bartender.

Honestly she wasn't sure which explanation she hated more.

"... Chou." She sighed.

She looked aside to the small girl. "Oh good. So I'm not the only one. I had blissfully forgotten what being a teenager was like. Ugh."

"Teenager, what are you... oh. OH! Yeah. I didn't really get the typical high school experience, so this is kind of neat. But I'm kind of just waiting to find out what I'm here to do... Do either of you have any ideas?"

Ana looked at the other two, "Not here, not know," she hissed, "to many ears, possibilities, it all splits, comes back together, splits again leads to too many places. Makes my brain hurt."

Her hands moved as she spoke sending wisps of freezing darkness swirling in every direction. "Later, books, breakfast. I need to focus, to many things, to many possibilities."

She pushes her pink hair back again and tries to smile.

Akira looks around, as if noticing the other people for the first time. The warrior part of her mind had classified them quickly as either a threat or a non-threat, then moved on.

"Ah, yeah, you're right. Better keep it low key. I'll uh... I'll be right here, for right now"

Having heard enough to know he wanted to be near this group, Dan/Josh did not necessarily want to tip his hand to those that might still be watching and or listening that he was one of the displaced so took the opportunity to instead be chivalrous. He tri-folded his syllabus and pushed it into his back pocket as he walked over. Then once in easy ear shot says to Akira, "Well I could not help but over hear and it would be a shame that such a damsel would need to stay her in distress, if you would not feel it was to forward of me I could carry you. Perhaps some breakfast will help you get back up on your feet. Will that be okay with you?"

"Hmm, that is forward... You're cute, but I usually date men to trap and kill them, so I'm not used to how this works otherwise... Plus you look a little too young for me. I'd never turn down free food, though." says Akira, clearly reading too much into the situation.

Wait, do I need to kill him?

You have NO orders to assassinate ANYONE at this time. Perhaps you should find a doctor?

"Smooth, bozo." 'Chou' deadpanned to the newcomer, one eyebrow raised. "That said, yeah, I think we could all do with some food. Anyone know which way to the cafeteria?"

Dan/Josh appears unphased by the insult and just simple ignores it continuing to focus his attention on the one on the ground, "Well if carrying you would be to forward perhaps I could simply give you a strong arm to help you to your feet and help you move. Also I am sorry if my intentions were misconstrued I was not asking you to date me, I was just merely trying to help you in your current situation is all. Although I do thank you for the candid warning about dating you, I will endeavor to not make such a mistake."