If anything happened on this plane ride then Mob was turning them around….and she meant it this time.

Well she would ask the pilots to turn the plane around, of course, because it wouldn't have been safe for her to turn the plane around with her powers. She wasn't even sure if she as strong enough to do that…and she wasn't going try. She wasn't going to try and she prayed to whoever it was that you were supposed to pray to that she never ended up having to ask to turn the plane around either. She didn't know what it was about plane rides that made everyone so…upset….

But she couldn't let that happen this time.

"Ok, so here are the new plane ride rules. They're the old rules but I added some new ones. No fighting, no saying mean things, no letting Hatori drink because he's fragile, no going out onto the wing of the plane, no taking other people out onto the wing of the plane, no being in the bathroom for reasons other than using the bathroom, no singing, everyone has to stay in their assigned seats…um….hang on…let me get my phone." said Mob as she reached into her pocket for her phone. She had made a memo to herself about this…because there were a lot of rules. She hated making rules, and she hated enforcing them, but her friends gave her no choice.

Plane rides just brought out the worst in everyone for some reason.

"Here….I mean you left this." said Serizawa as he held her phone out to her. She had left it on the seat…the one next to him…and he wished that she would come back already. He had never been on a plane before…and he was very close to a lot of other people…and he was trying his best to stay calm….but it was hard. Especially because if he lost control of his powers then everyone would die and it would be all his fault!

Calm. Down.

He handed Miss Suzuki her phone and then took another drink of the milk she had made him. Well she hadn't MADE it for him, it had come from a store, but she had poured a bunch of clear liquid which was not water into it and told him to sip it when he started to feel overwhelmed. He felt…the same…just a little dizzy…but maybe that dizziness came from the fact that he was in a plane thousands of kilometers in the air and everyone was around him…and he just wanted to go and be in his room…but he couldn't be there….but at least he had his umbrella…and Miss Suzuki was there too…

So he felt a little better.

"Thank you. Ok just let me…oh! My friend Minori sent me this picture of a cat in sunglasses and the words at the bottom say-"said Mob

"Mob, I just took three bars. You have at most half an hour before I'm dead to the world so get on with it." Said Minegishi not opening their eyes. The leather of Ryou's jacket was surprisingly soft against their head…not that they should have been this close to him. They were mad at him…well they tried to be. He had done something stupid, again, and he knew that he'd been stupid…but in the grand scheme of his stupidity staying out all night freeing all the cats and dogs in Tokyo was the least he could have done. At least he hadn't gone tripping with Sho…that would have been a disaster for everyone…but they were still mad.

Or at least they would be when this stupid plane landed.

"Is that…safe?" asked Shibata. He reached over and debated poking Minegishi just to make sure that they were…alright. If they tried to kill him it at least meant that they hadn't died. He wasn't their best friend or anything, or even their very good friend, but he did know that Mob would have been devastated if they died.

Also there would be no buffer between Shimazaki and everyone else…and that would have just been….he didn't even want to think about it.

"I've seen Toshi take more than three in one sitting. They'll be fine and if not…well that's what that guy's for." Said Shimazaki pointing to Fukuda's spot over in the corner. At some point he was going to have to talk to Mob about these assigned seats. Sho had been assigned as Fukuda's moving buddy and, well he didn't want to sit near Fukuda, this plane ride was going to be so boring with Sho all the way over there and Toshi asleep…not that he didn't like it when Toshi slept…they just slept better in bed when they let him curl up around them…but this was nice too…

But he also had a pocket full of fishbowl rocks and Hatori was right there….and Sho had good aim….

"Someone needs me?" asked Fukuda as he looked up from his and Sho's game…and died. Why did they have to make a new Nintendo mass fight game? He had just gotten the hang of the old one…but it was fine. He would gladly have died a thousand digital deaths if it meant that this plane ride went smoothly…hell. He would have died and come back in the real world if it meant that he could make this go well.

Because these things never went well.

Not when you had this many…he didn't even know whats…crammed into a tin can flying thousands of kilometers in the air. Thank God Sho was near him and not with Shimazaki. Shimazaki brought out the worst in Sho…especially when he was all cuddled up with Minegishi…and Minegishi was always unnecessarily mean to Sho and Sho always retaliated…and then Hatori would freak out and run to Suzuki…and then Shigeko would probably send him over to sit with Suzuki too….and that was not happening. Not after…that thing that happened between them that he was never going to speak of or think of again….

This plane ride needed to go well.

"Nobody needs you so just…stay over there and keep on playing with Sho. Ok, so the rules are-" said Mob

"I just Googled and it says-" said Hatori as he pulled out his phone. His arm bumped Shibata's but that couldn't be helped. There was no room back here. He'd talk to Mob about this assigned seating thing in a minute. He liked Shibata, and they'd been moving buddies for a while, but there was no room back there…and also Suzuki didn't have a moving buddy since Fukuda had volunteered to be Sho's…and Suzuki…well he hadn't ever said it but Hatori got the feeling that he didn't like to be alone…

And also Hatori had felt Shimazaki's aura on him for this whole plane ride and he had one hand in his pocket…and that was never a good sign.

"I know what I'm doing now shut up and let Mob go over the rules. Mob, keep going." Said Minegishi

"Ok! Um…so there are new rules. Please, please, PLEASE be nice to Serizawa. That's a big rule. He's never been in an airplane before and he's really scared and nervous and it's going to be a long flight so please be nice to him. Please. If you guys are nice to him then…um…there's going to be…um…good things!" said Mob. She stood in the aisle so that nobody could see Serizawa. They were looking at him and he hated it when people looked at him, it made him feel like he was under a microscope and then he got nervous and exploded, and if he exploded then they would all die and she didn't want that at all.

He was so nervous he was holding onto his umbrella with both hands.

She reached her aura out to his and he clung to hers. He held onto her so tight that her colors were totally covered by his. Maybe she should have done a half and half vodka and milk ratio for him. She had started him with a couple of capfuls because that was all that it had taken when she had started drinking. Her tolerance was a lot better than his even though she was sixteen years younger than him…but maybe she should have taken into account how much bigger he was…she felt her pockets…

Good. She'd brought her vape pen with her.

"Like what?" asked Sho looking up from his game…and maybe he shouldn't have done that since Fukuda knocked him off the world…he'd get his later. Right now big sis said that good things were happening…and when she said good things she meant good things. Not like when Fukuda said good things but really he meant desert with fruit it in or multi vitamins that tasted like candy but weren't…and why he cared so much about what Sho did and did not eat he would never know.

"Not dying in a plane crash." Said Minegishi

"Why did you have to say plane crash?!" said Hatori. He held onto both arm rests for dear life. Were they losing altitude? Were they going down?! He could…well he could use his powers to fly the plane like an RC plane…but not if the new guy was going to explode and kill them all!

"Don't worry, Hatori, I won't let anything happen to you. I'll break your fall, alright?" asked Shibata

"B-But then you'd die." Said Hatori

"I think that I'd make it and if not, well, at least I managed to save someone." Said Shibata

"You guys know that I can teleport, right? If the new guy has his daily panic attack I can just get us to safety…well Toshi first but then the rest of you…actually let me see who I'd be comfortable leaving behind." Said Shimazaki

"Well someone's feeling pretty macabre today." Said Minegishi

"Hey! Shimazaki is not…that word! And if he has to let people die and he has to let people die…but maybe we won't die. If we hit land we might live and then the survivors can eat the dead." Said Sho. He leaned back and crossed his arms. He didn't care if his Switch fell and hit the ground and shattered into a million pieces…and it didn't because Fukuda caught it.

"Sho, don't." said Fukuda. He didn't want to deal with this again. Sho was a child and he was too young to…well he was almost eleven and he was getting to the age where he needed to learn to stop picking fights with people…but he would teach him that later. He could feel the new person's aura…and he knew that feeling. That was the same feeling, the same sort of static electricity feeling, that preceded one of Suzuki's explosions…or one of Shigeko…and he had no idea how to diffuse this situation. Shigeko seemed to have it under control…and he didn't even want to think about what could have been happening between those two….he had to focus on Sho and keeping him calm and alive…

And keeping him from fighting with Minegishi…who really should have known better then to fight with an eleven year old.

"But we won't be crashing or eating anyone…not that there's anything wrong with eating people…well there is but…well there's nothing wrong with being a cannibal if you don't eat people and we shouldn't be making our friends feel bad for things that they can't help." Said Mob. She looked at Hatori while she said that so he knew that she was talking about him. He didn't need to feel bad about what he was, he couldn't help it, and he needed to know that she was always on his side. Even though he had rejected her…well she had embarrassed herself there…she was his friend and no matter what happened between them she would always be a friend and a friend was there for you no matter what.

"I am never going to live that down…" muttered Hatori as he held his head in his hands. Shibata patted him on the back. It didn't help.

"No, you aren't." said Minegishi with a shake of their head. They might have felt bad for him if he hadn't brought this on himself. Maybe he would learn something from all of this…or maybe he wouldn't and he would spend the rest of his life as the butt of a joke that would never get played out.

"You are who you are and there's nothing that we can do to change that. We accept you for who you are and you accept me…and I hope that everyone can come to accept Serizawa too. He can't control his powers and he gets scared easily and stuff…but he's still a good friend and a good person and, yes, he could take this plane down with all of us in it but…all of us could. Well maybe not Minegishi or Fukuda…but most of us could…but we won't…and…um….what was I saying?" asked Mob. Her thoughts were a little…slippery…right now. That happened to her sometimes. She maybe should have written that down too.

"Miss Suzuki…can we turn around…please?" asked Serizawa. He didn't look out the window. He didn't look at anyone else. He focused on her. He focused on the sparkly snowflakes all over her shirt. That was something that he could look at. The world was too big but those were small…and she was small…and somehow her being small…it was nice. He was bigger than her and he got the feeling that he needed to keep her safe…from everything…but he also mostly got the feeling that he wanted to go back to Japan and his new room and just…stay there until he was better. He had been getting better, he had started walking around in the house after everyone had gone to sleep, and maybe if he just waited a few more weeks or months or years then…then he would have been well enough to go to…wherever it was that they were going next.

"No, I'm only turning this plane around if someone starts a fight…and I don't want anyone to fight…and we're not going to-" said Mob

"Sho, come on. Fight with me in the game. Don't fight with Minegishi in real life." Said Fukuda. She could and would turn that plane around…and she would throw them all off schedule…and she never thought things through. Turning the plane around would just prolong the time that they spent sealed up in this tin can…and the more time that they spent in this tin can the greater the chance of one of them exploding…in some way. Like when he and Suzuki had gotten bored and made cans explode over an open fire. Sho was getting close to exploding, emotionally anyway, and Minegishi was just adding to the fire…and that was just what he could control. There was always Serizawa. He was clinging to Shigeko for dear life…and she wasn't going to make him stop…and this was….

He hated it when things were out of his control…especially when things got that bad.

"Shimazaki's going to save me first if the plane goes down because big sis' friend freaks out. Then he'll save Minegishi…well he should save big sis first…and if anyone has to die then it should be-" said Sho. If anyone was getting left behind it was dad. Maybe he would die and maybe he wouldn't, Sho didn't know he wasn't the grim reaper, but he was willing to take his chances.

"Nobody's going to die. Sho, don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you. I can heal and you can put up a barrier so you'll be fine." Said Fukuda. He patted Sho on the back and tried to get him to look back down at his screen and not up at the chaos that was growing around them. He was just a little boy and he did not need to be contemplating his own mortality like that. It was just so…to borrow a word from Minegishi…macabre.

"Yes, nobody is going to die and…um…Sho, if you're nice to Shibata I'll let you put extra frosting on your after bath time poptarts." Said Mob. She winced as she said that. Serizawa felt it in her aura and reached out and took her hand. She patted his hand and his aura. He was worried about her…and it was nice that someone was worried about her since she had to worry about everyone else…like Sho. If he had that much sugar before bed then he would never be able to fall asleep…and also his stomach would hurt…but it was better than Sho accidentally being mean to Serizawa and then Serizawa exploding and the plane going down.

"I want four poptarts and a can of chocolate frosting so I can make some sandwiches." Said Sho

"Sho, that's way too much sugar in one sitting. You're going to lose another tooth…an adult tooth." Said Fukuda

"So? You can just fix it." Said Sho

"Sho, that's not the point. One day I won't be here and-" said Fukuda

"That's fine." Said Mob. She winced again. Serizawa patting her hand again. Four was…a lot…but if Sho needed four poptarts to be happy then he was getting his four poptarts of happiness.

"And I want to eat them in the tub." Said Sho. If he ate them in the tub then maybe she would let him have more because eating during his bath meant that they were a during bath snack and not an after bath snack…and he would definitely take more baths if he got to eat more poptarts. It wasn't like they were going to get wet or anything, he could always hold them with his powers, and also they would be a good distraction from the drowning feeling he got whenever he was in water.

"Um…alright….I guess." Said Mob. If he ate his poptarts in the tub then they were going to go from after bath rewards to during bath rewards and then he would start asking her every single night for during and after bath rewards…and then she would have to deal with sugared up Sho…and she loved Sho a lot but she didn't like to deal with sugared up Sho…but sugared up Sho was better than dead in a plane crash Sho.

"And I want-" said Sho

"I want Mob to finish saying her piece so I can drift off into sweet oblivion." Said Minegishi. They needed sleep. Flying was hell and they needed sleep. They needed….well they needed a lot of things but what they really needed was sleep. They could feel Ryou's hand in their hair. It helped.

"Don't go to the light." Said Shibata. He knew that when people did what Minegishi did they sometimes never woke up….well that was something that happened when you mixed those pills with other things…and he had no idea what to do if they stopped breathing…well get Fukuda…but he was such an asshole that he might not have done anything for Minegishi. He had left Hatori to suffer after all and Hatori was one of the nicest guys Shibata had ever met in his life.

"I'll go wherever I feel like." Said Minegishi

"Anyway just…that's the big rule. Please be nice to Serizawa. He's a nice person but he just can't control his powers, that's all, and we've all been there so just…try to be understanding…and be nice." Said Mob. Serizawa was still holding her hand….and now she had two things to worry about….well three. She had to worry about Shibata exploding and how sugared up Sho would be later….and now she had to worry about Minegishi going to the light….and they had just started their trip. London to Tokyo was over a day…and they had to make stops for fuel…was there anything faster than a plane? Like a….rocket ship? Or something? She didn't know.

She leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes…and then heard some glass clinking together.

"I'm always nice…and good catch, new guy." Said Shimazaki before he opened one of the tiny bottles he had stolen from the drink cart. He took a drink…and was proud of himself for not spitting it out. Fireball. Who in the hell had gotten Fireball? For the love of…well he had already opened it so down the hatch it went.

"Th-thank you!" said Serizawa. He hadn't meant to do that. He had just seen something coming towards Miss Suzuki and then he'd caught it…with his powers. He stared down at what he had done…and then stopped doing it. He hadn't even known what he had been doing and then he'd started to think and he'd messed up and she must have been so upset with him and….and she seemed…alright. So that was good…at least.

"Shimazaki, it was nice of you to give me this but you…aren't as nice as you think you are. Sometimes we see ourselves in our heads differently than other people see us…but that's ok. I like you and I think that you're one of my best friends but…well sometimes…you're not as nice as you think that you are. You're very mean sometimes, especially to Hatori, and I don't like it…so be nice. Please…and thank you for whatever this is." Said Mob

"Sure thing little boss lady, I can be nice." Said Shimazaki

"What'd you give her?" asked Minegishi fighting their way back to the land of the living. Their thoughts were getting slow and their breathing was getting slow…and they were getting hungry…but they had enough sense not to raid the snack cart or do…other things that they wanted to do. As angry as they were with certain people they knew better than to start something on this plane. Mob didn't need that kind of stress and the new guy didn't need reason to freak out and kill them all.

"Tastes like Fireball but who the hell knows." Said Shimazaki

"Nasty. Mob, don't drink that." Said Minegishi

"Why? What is it?" asked Mob as she read the label. She'd never had this before…and Shimazaki had good taste…and she knew her limits. She didn't even like getting drunk and her dad was sitting right there anyway. He was playing Minecraft…or maybe he was actually working…but she wasn't going to be drunk in front of him. She knew better than that.

"Whiskey, really bad whiskey, which you do not need to be drinking…now give it back to Ryou." Said Minegishi

"Um…well I don't know if I like it or not…" said Mob as she tucked the tiny bottle into her sleeve with her free hand. Minegishi…they worried about her for no reason sometimes. They could be sort of a worrywart, kind of like dad, so maybe it was an adult thing. She knew how moderation worked and she didn't need her best friend to remind her. She knew what she was doing with this just like Minegishi knew what they were doing when they took three of their mint tin pills at once.

"What's that?" asked Sho craning his neck over the seat. Big sis had one of her tiny bottles…and there was mostly nasty stuff in there…not that he wanted to ever agree with Minegishi about anything…but that stuff was usually really gross and he had no idea why big sis liked it.

"Not something for you, Sho, if you want to drink something then go and get a soda…or two…but no more than that." Said Fukuda. He hated Sho drinking soda, the last thing he needed was more sugar in his system, but it was better than him taking up drinking. One budding alcoholic was bad enough.

"….fine…but you never let me have fun." Said Sho

"Hey, you know who could use some fun in his life? Hatori…and since I'm such a nice guy-" said Shimazaki. Toshi was jabbing him in the side. What? He was just going to maybe get him a little drunk, just a little, not enough that he would die or anything. Just a little because these long plain rides were boring as fuck.

"Hey Mob? Can I go sit by your dad? He seems lonely…and also I don't like the way that Shimazaki's been looking at me." Said Hatori

"Dad says that he doesn't get lonely because he's a full and complete person on his own and also Shimazaki can't look at you in any ways because he doesn't have eyes but, yes, you can go and sit with my dad." Said Mob

"Hey, if he gets to go and sit with your dad then-" said Shimazaki. Sho was right there and he seemed more than a little bored…and even though Hatori was going to the safety of Suzuki's aura there were other fun things to be done. He and Sho hadn't declared a winner to their last game of the floor is made of lava airplane edition.

"No, nobody else gets to move…and anyway you have to sit with Minegishi because you love them." Said Mob

"That's true…and if this plane goes down I at least want to save Toshi." Said Shimazaki. Sho…he would try and save the two of them at the same time…and Mob would probably live through it. If the plane went down. The new guy's aura was still loud but not all panicked and shrieking, so that was good, but there was always the chance that they would all end up remaking Alive…or Airplane. Yeah, Airplane was funnier. Alive was really sad for a movie with cannibalism.

"I-I wouldn't-" said Serizawa. He would never have done something like that…on purpose. He felt safe. He felt safe with Miss Suzuki beside him. She was there and her hand was in his and his other hand was around his umbrella and as long as he had those two things then he knew that he would be alright.

"Don't talk like that, you're scaring Serizawa. Serizawa, drink some more milk. You'll feel better." Said Mob as she sat down beside him. He let go of her hand so that she could sit down but then he grabbed it again and held it super tight…he was very strong…but that was ok. She was his friend and when you were friends with someone you let them hold onto your hand with all of their strength….and it didn't matter if he broke it or not because Fukuda was there. Fukuda may have turned into a jerk and stuff but he at least still did his job…and stuff.

"I…I'm already feeling better…because you're here. I know you wouldn't let anything happen to me…and also the milk is making me kind of…dizzy." Said Serizawa

"Oh. Here, we can share my vape pen then. It's a…the strain that makes you sleepy. I forget the name of it. It'll make you tired, too, so that's good. You should sleep at some point. This plane ride is going to be over a day." Said Mob

"Um…I'm alright." Said Serizawa. He didn't think that it would help him, her pen, since it hadn't really helped before. He had been making things float, mostly, when he'd tried it on Halloween…he hadn't broken anything but he didn't want to risk it on a plane…or risk offending her.

"Alright. Um…did you bring you DS? We can play Harvest Moon or Animal Crossing or-" said Mob

"Smash! Get over here and play Smash with us! Fukuda sucks! He sucks di-" said Sho

"Sho!" said Fukuda. He knew what Sho had been about to say. He knew where he had learned that. He knew that it was his job to un-teach Sho that. Somebody had to.

"What, you do. You're really bad at this. Even big sis is better than you and she always picks ice climbers." Said Sho

"What's wrong with ice climbers?" asked Mob

"What's right with ice climbers?" said Sho

"They're brother and sister like we are and they're cute." Said Mob

"You can't pick a main just because it's a cute character! Well unless it's Toon Link but he's awesome." Said Sho

"I-I like Toon Link too…but my main is, um, Lucario right now…but I like ice climbers! They were better in…um…Brawl…but they're good too! They're all good characters…I mean….it's a good game…series…" said Serizawa. Now he was being stared at…and he hated being stared at. He little red haired boy, Miss Suzuki's little brother, was leaning forward and staring at him…and he had really cool eyes…even if his pupils were very small and kind of intense…but in a good way? Or maybe not since the person beside him…he was blanking on the name…was trying to get him to sit back.

"Sho, come on. Let's not bother your sister and her new…friend." Said Fukuda. He didn't know the new guy but he knew that he was…whatever…to Shigeko. He didn't want to get involved in her life like that. He had no idea what he could do about her life and the course it was taking…so for his own sanity he would leave her alone. She didn't even like him anymore anyway.

"Fukuda, shut up. He's my friend too now. Suzuki Sho, but you already know that…so let's play Smash." Said Sho as he held out his hand. The new guy stared at him before reaching out, shaking his hand quickly, and then quickly going back to holding his umbrella like he was scared it was going to start raining on the plane. His other hand was holding big sis's but not in an 'I like you way' or anything…so that was ok…and it was ok if he did like her since he was nice to her and stuff…but Sho would still be obligated to beat him up…well if she didn't like him back…but he didn't seem to like her like that so he was ok.

And also he knew about Smash so that got him about a million points in Sho's book.

"Sho, don't tell people to shut up. It's mean and if you talk like that then people are going to think that you're a mean person." Said Mob. She didn't mind that he had told Fukuda to shut up…and she wished that she minded since she was a nice person…well she tried to be. It didn't matter how she felt about Fukuda because she still had to teach Sho how to be nice. She was the big sister and she had to teach him right from wrong.

"I-I don't think that he's mean and…and I'm Serizawa Katsuya…but you knew that already and um…sure! I would love to play with you." Said Serizawa

"Cool! Ok, four person smash with weapons on and no teams." Said Sho

"Sho-" said Fukuda

"Ok, fine, teams. I'll protect you Fukuda….but you had better not pick someone stupid like Mr. Game and Watch or Isabelle or Pichu! You need to be someone easy like…Mario…or something. Ok, you're Mario and I feel like changing it up so I'm going to be Toon Link…and big sis, you had better not be the Ice Climbers again and Serizawa you can be Lucario and-" said Sho

"Sho, I think that I'll sit this one out. Alright?" asked Fukuda

"What? You want to go and hang out with dad?" asked Sho

"No…I just have some work to do…and I think that I'll do it over here. It's been a while since we spent time together." Said Fukuda. He looked behind himself briefly…and then looked away as Suzuki made eye and aural contact with him. The eye contact stopped but the aural contact remained and…well he just needed more time. He needed time to get over…that thing that he were never speaking of again. Suzuki was sitting with Hatori but he was focused on him…and he had no idea what was going through that head of his…but he wasn't going to pick his brain or anything like that. Not now. Maybe later.

Sitting here with Sho, Shigeko, and the new guy was better than sitting with Suzuki and Hatori and that big unspoken…thing.

"Ok Fukuda, you have to do what you have to do. We'll be fine here on our own. Alright, Sho, give us a minute to join." Said Mob as she used her powers to pull her DS out of her Elsa bag. Plenty of charge. Good. This plane ride was going to go well. It had no reason not to go well. Fukuda had pulled out his laptop so he wasn't going to fight with anyone…and Shibata was listening to something but he never fought with anyone anyway so he was fine….and Minegishi and Shimazaki were napping together…well Minegishi was napping at least it was hard to tell with Shimazaki sometimes…and dad and Hatori were hanging out and playing games and stuff…and Serizawa was a lot calmer and now he was making friends and playing with her and Sho…and this whole thing was going better than she had ever imagined it would be.

She probably wasn't going to end up having to turn this plane around….and that was wonderful.