You know how this works. I don't own Roy (don't I wish), I don't own his staff, and I don't own Central. Pretty much the only things I do own are the plot, my character (General Ree), and the academy (yeah, that was me). Oh, and anyone mentioned in the flashback is also my creation. Quick background, I brought Hughes back (yeah, saw that coming, didn't you?) because he's too awesome to die. The grave can't stop him! Well, that's enough of that, let's get this party started.

She found him where she always had, at the intersection of the Science and the Combat sections of the school. "You never could find your way around this place," she teased.
Maes jumped like he always did when she snuck up on him, but covered it nicely, as he had learned to over the years. "I always choose the path that seems right and it always leads me back here. Remember orientation-" he started.
"Just before freshman year. You were so lost…" The echoes of another lifetime consumed her as she traveled back.
several years earlier
A scrawny, short boy stood in the hallway, pointing in first one, then another direction, muttering to himself. As Arika came up from behind him, she began to speak. "Lost?"
After getting over the shock of there being someone else there with him, the boy said, "Terribly."
She stuck out her hand. "I'm Arika."
"Maes," he said, shaking it.
"Where are you trying to go, Maes?'
"I'm trying to find my Intro to Command class."
"That's where I'm going. I can show you where it is. Third period?"
"Yes…" he said cautiously.
"Looks like we'll be having that class together," she said with a grin. They had gone not ten feet when some guy knocked right in to Arika, knocking her to the floor.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," he said. He helped her up and helped dust her off. "I'm sorry, that was rude of me. Oh, um, I'm Roy." The boy talked fast and without pause.
"I'm Arika. Nice to meet you."
"You too," he said, and ran off. He was halfway down the hall when her call stopped him and brought him back.
"Where you headed Roy?"
"Intro to Command."
"That's where we're headed," she said, gesturing to Maes. She looked at Roy for a moment before adding, "You're going the wrong way."
"Nonsense, I know exactly where I am."
present
They laughed at the memory of a Roy from long ago. Suddenly, there was a voice behind them. "It took me an hour to find that class," Roy said, "but I found it."
"Like hell you did. We had to track you down," Arika said.
"Did I get to the class?"
"Yeah, but-"
"Then I found it. Now, does anyone feel like a visit to the roof for old time's sake?"
"I'd love to," Maes said, instantly remembering all the great times they'd had on that roof. They found the right hallway that led to the right door that led to the staircase to the roof, and went out. "Do you two remember all the stupid things we did up here?"
"Most of them," Arika answered.
"There was the time with the fishing line," Roy said.
"And he time with the dean's car," Maes added.
"And the time you two almost got me killed," Arika said.
"Which one?" Roy laughed.
"My favorite was the one with the trampoline," Maes said.
"Really? I always preferred the one with the jello," Roy said with a grin.
"I liked the one with the pool, myself," Arika said nostalgically.
They reminisced for a while longer about the stupid, dangerous stunts they had pulled.
"And after everything," Maes started.
"We'd always come up here," Roy filled in.
"And watch the sun set over the city," Arika finished. "It was always so beautiful up here." She laughed, a small chuckle, at first, but it built. It became a huge sound that defied the city before her, and her friends joined in, and together they mocked Central, spead, in all it's glory, before them.