A/N: btw, i don't own sky high or any of the characters from the movie. i do own alexis, and her family, and any other little randoms that may pop up. oh, and this is my first story ever, so please don't be too terribly harsh. thank you!
The bus pulled up. Yellow, medium sized, and completely non-descript. She stepped onto the vehicle and the driver arched an eyebrow at her. She gave a slight nod and strode past the four or five students already on the bus and took a seat in the very back. Glancing to the side she caught a long haired boy cast a sidelong glance at her from his book. She spent the next 15 minutes and the next three stops watching houses and streets fly past her window. She only became slightly aware that people were looking at her when she turned back to the front and met the interested stares of three boys, two brown haired and one with ridiculously blonde hair, and two girls, one with red hair and the other with black and purple locks. Pulling the headphones from her ears, the red haired girl repeated herself.
"You're new, aren't you?" she asked Alexia, a warm smile on her face. Alexia only slightly smiled and gave a quick nod.
"Yes I am," she replied, "Just enrolling today."
"Oh man," the blonde haired boy exclaimed at her accent, "where are you from?"
"Um," Alexia mumbled, "England. London specifically. I've been in California for the last year or so though. Rather hoped I'd dropped most of it."
"I'm Layla," the red haired girl introduced herself, holding out her hand which Alexia shook quickly before pulling back to herself and offering a quick 'Alexia' in response before Layla continued, "And this is Will, Zach, Mag-"
Layla was cut off by the emergence of seatbelts and handlebars and the bus taking a sudden swan dive off of an unfinished freeway overpass. Alexia let out a quick yelp, but noticed that none of the other students were looking frightened and rather used to the whole situation of the bus sprouting wings and a jet engine out of it's bottom side. Keeping her mouth shut for the rest of the flight, she was somewhat amazed to see a floating school approaching swiftly from the distance. The bus landed with a slight jolt and the seatbelts and handlebars disappeared back to wherever they came from. Alexia stood up on slightly shaky legs, tightly grasping her bag. Layla smiled her motherly smile at Alexia, while Magenta and the others gave small smirks.
"Everyone is surprised the first trip," Layla said, "but you'll get used to it soon. Will and I will show you to the office."
Layla and Will said quick goodbyes to the other three as well as, though Alexia found it odd, the quiet long haired boy who had his nose in the book the entire ride. He glanced up at Alexia once again and she got a better look at his dark and unreadable eyes. She caught that his name was Warren, and the shorter brown haired boy was named Ethan.
Heading towards the front of the school, Alexia looked around, hiding her amazement that there were so many people around her that were, well, just like her. Her age, going to school like normal kids, but completely different from almost the entire population of the world. All around the front lawn of the campus, kids were glowing, stretching, floating, flying, firing, icing, and speeding past each other. Entering the school, it looked just like the other average high schools that Alexia had attended, and the students for the most part looked like the other completely average students she had gone to school with, but they were different. Different like her. Vaguely Alexia was aware that Will was talking to her about something.
"We're juniors this year," he said confidently, "Layla, Zach, Mag, and Ethan are all in sidekick classes; warren and I are both in hero classes, but he's a senior so we don't have many courses together. What grade are you?"
"I'll be a third year I think," Alexia said, thinking for a moment. She was transferring nearly two weeks into the first session and into a completely different curriculum. 'What if she had to start back at the beginning with all the little first years?' she thought worriedly.
They had stopped in front of a large wooden door with the words 'Principal Powers' in shiny brass lettering across the front.
"My stop then?" she asked a nodding Will and Layla. "Well, thank you then. Perhaps I'll see you both later?"
"Of course you will," Layla exclaimed sweetly, "We'll sit together at lunch no matter which classes you're assigned. Good luck with power placement!"
Layla and Will were off down the hall, leaving a confused Alexia muttering and wondering what power placement was. Turning back to the door, she gave it a heavy knock and waited for a faint 'come in' from the other side before turning the handle.