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Msmusicful: They are, even though it's a pain to study for them.

Dash24zappshift: AP means Advanced Placement, so it's basically a college course you can take in high school to get college credit. But to get the credit, you have to take an exam at the end of the year for that class and pass it.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

Don't own nothing-double negatives. :D

Despite the fact that Niko and Kotori both had major part in the filming of the scene they wanted filmed next, they were the only two there that could produce costumes the way the production crew wanted them. So the filming process was halted for a moment while the costumes were being made and less important characters were put to work helping the two of them make the costumes. Even the director got roped into it-though Tsubasa did try to run away at the beginning. In fact, for a complete total of two days, the team of 12 college and high school students sat around in their green room sewing costumes together. Or rather, all of them except for Maki-having been declared incapable of sewing anything without harming herself in some way. She was instead put in charge of making the power point that Nozomi would be using in the filming. All of the weapons and powers would be green screened to prevent actual harm to the actresses.

Introducing the Idea

"Okay, here's the plan." Nozomi pointed at the screen behind her as she said her line after the starting signal from Tsubasa. The power point was supposed to go on as she pointed at the screen for dramatic effect, as if they were so advanced that pointing could cause something to turn on.

"Wait-go back and try the line again!" Anju called out. As the main props manager, she found herself in charge of the laptop with the power point and the projector, but she was having a bit of a problem getting the projector to show the screen on the laptop. Maki hurried forward to assist Anju with the technical problem and they got the projector to show the power point. Anju covered the projection lens with a cardboard box and gave the signal to Nozomi again.

"Okay, so here's the plan." Nozomi briefly wondered if the extra word would be okay for the film but she had no choice but to continue and point at the screen as Anju removed the box from the lens, making it appear as if the power point had come on as Nozomi pointed.

They then had to film each of the girls' reactions to the new idea, which was a different struggle of its own worth. Rin was not very keen on the idea of wearing such a baggy costume that she claimed looked 'stupid' even though she found the idea of being able to shoot flame amazing. However, as the flame would be computer-generated, Rin lost interest again. So instead, they filmed her responding to a bowl of ramen, which she promptly ate as soon as the camera was off of her.

Umi stammered her lines nervously, still not used to having the camera on her. At least it worked with what Tsubasa was going with to have Wasabi be a bit apprehensive about the prospect of fighting. Unfortunately, they still had to do several takes before they could be satisfied the filming because Kotori kept getting into Umi's shots at the wrong times and generally making the bluenette mess up her lines. The final response was filmed with Kotori being restrained off camera to prevent any more mishaps.

Kotori and Niko both took the least amount of time to film their parts as both of them were more composed than the other two.

Practice

Tsubasa had hoped to gloss over the practice scene quickly, not wanting to put that much work into editing the special effects but as they tried, the scenes ended up being too funny to not green screen. Umi's blade was just a piece of cardboard wrapped in green cloth and tied to her arm but she still hit a lot of people with it unintentionally. Tsubasa tried to keep count of how many times Umi actually did manage to land a hit on the target they had made but the numbers were remarkably low compared to the amount of times that Umi hit herself or another actress who had gotten in the way.

Kotori lay on her stomach and pushed the green covered balls she would be using around to see if they would roll around like they weren't covered. Upon finding out that they would not roll and that they were soft, she proceeded to start throwing them at the people closest to her, which were Niko and Rin for the filming though a few projectiles did end up hitting Nozomi or Maki in the forehead. For some reason, none of the projectiles came close to Umi at all.

Niko put on roller skates for the first time in her life and struggled to stand. Standing without the need of the wall or any other person took her a full ten minutes to master. They decided to use Niko's attempt to skate for the first time as the part where GoGo started learning to use her superfast wheels. As Niko figured out how to skate around without falling, they then added the cardboard circles they had cut for GoGo's wheel weapons. For when Niko started practicing her throwing skills, they gave her Frisbees to throw at the target.

Rin did trip a lot in her new outfit, most of which was to be omitted from the final film. She enjoyed playing around with the suit a lot more than she had originally thought, making Tsubasa wonder if the ramen was a waste of funding. Then again, they had no funding to begin with except for what they had managed to get from Maki's mother, who they had stopped asking for money before the woman spent too much on the project.

"How often do I become almost shirtless in this film?" Maki asked, obviously irritated with the next part of the script.

"It's fanservice. Just do it." Like most of what Tsubasa had decided, there was no room for arguments if they wanted to get the film done as soon as they could. Also, Nozomi seemed to be having a lot of fun almost undressing Maki, for very obvious reasons. She no longer went all the way; a slap from Honoka had taught her that she shouldn't try too hard with Maki. Maki signed and lifted her shirt, already dreading the poking that was sure to come with it. At least she had been allowed to wear a green band around her stomach so the effect could be added in more easily than the last time Nozomi needed to open the port. Nozomi poked her a few times to get the message across that she was trying to put the battle hardware back in-which was just a mini floppy disk with an unhappy face on it; there was nothing saved to the thing.

Instead of having Maki and two others in green suits hold Nozomi up for the flying scene-they didn't even know how they could position the girls so that they looked like they were flying-they filmed the two in front of different screens. They would have to edit the film so that Nozomi appeared to be sitting on Maki as the two of them flew.

Omake

"Here you go, Honoka-san." Maki's mother handed over Maki's helmet to Honoka.

"Uh…thanks?" Honoka looked up at the older woman questioningly.

"The helmet's connected to Maki's brain, which means she can control it. But you do realize that we could reverse the connection?" Honoka's mind started to connect the pieces; this helmet would give her control over Maki. "I reprogrammed it for the scene when Baymax loses his healthcare chip so her actions would need to seem out of control. Here's her remote." Now Honoka was really confused. What kind of mother would willingly hand someone the key to controlling her own daughter? But the feeling didn't last. She snatched the remote from Maki's mother and dashed off to find Maki.

No one could explain the bruises found on Maki the next morning, even though the red-head had no idea how her helmet got on her head in her sleep.

Honoka had a bit of a hard time figuring out what the remote could do in terms of controlling Maki.