I think this is the first Monday where I'm not waking up to help Aunt Cass start the day. Ari thought as her alarm clock rang. She had gotten up at the Lucky Cat's usual time, but instead of helping her aunt with the morning rush she'd be off to her first day at public school.

She had gotten a big plate of pancakes and turkey bacon when she got downstairs. "First day of school, how excited are you?" Cass asked her.

Ari couldn't talk back since her mouth was full of food, but she gave a thumbs up. "Glad to hear, if you need anything at class, remember I'm a phone call away." Her aunt ruffled her hair and walked to serve another customer.

"Hey guys." Ari turned to the others, who were busy digging into their own food. "What were your first days like?"
"First day of...?" Hiro raised an eyebrow.

"SFIT."

"Oh, it was a blast!" Honey Lemon exclaimed.
"It was alright." Gogo hummed.

"I was an anxious wreck." Wasabi rubbed his sleeve.

"I thought it was cool." Fred chipped in.

Ari snickered. "Fred, you're not a student."
"Oh, right."

"My first day was a bag of mixed emotions." Hiro shrugged. "But at least I had my friends, and you do too."
"Thanks." She hummed. "You have fun at school today."

"You too." He flashed her a thumbs up.

At least Rachel was walking with her or else she'd be freaking out the entire way there.

"I can hear you sweating from here." Rachel hummed. "Chill."
Ari rolled her eyes. "Can I ask you something, Rach?"
"Ye."

She grumbled. "Please don't tell the other kids about my… amnesia. That goes for you too Katie, I know you're in Rachel's backpack."
Said feline popped her head out from behind a flap. "Rats! How'd you know I was there?"

"I cat-sitted you for Rachel's New York trip, I know your tricks."
"Clever girl." Katie pouted. "We won't snitch."

"Dare I ask why?" Rachel raised an eyebrow.
"They're gonna pester me about it and it's none of their business." Ari huffed. "It's bad enough I still have amnesia, arrrg!"

"What's the latest thing you remember?"
She flashed a deadpan stare. "Not you too."

Rachel snickered. "I'm curious. And when I mean latest I mean freshest memory before your amnesia."
"Suffering."

The scruffy brunette raised an eyebrow. "That's all?"

"I won't bother you with details." Ari shuddered as the dark memories of gunshots flashed in her head.
Thankfully, Rachel dropped the subject. "How was your New York trip?"

"Awesome." Ari had literal stars in her eyes. "I have cousins now, and I got to see Spiderman in action!"
"Just Spiderman?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "Hiro's favorite is the spider-mech… thingy."
"Mhmm." Rachel hummed with amusement. "Did you know that on my trip I got to see not only Spiderman, but Iron Man too?"

"...You suck."
"Love you too Ari."

Katie started giggling from her place inside the backpack.

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

Mikan Ferns added David Ferns to the group chat

Mikan Ferns: David FINALLY got a new phone

Honey Lemon: wb David!

Fredzilla: yayyyyy!

Sienna Kline: 3

David Ferns: I've returned

Sara Ferns: It's been 3000 years.

Hiro Hamada: DEAD MEME SARA

Sara Ferns: NEVER

David Ferns: Guys please don't.

TheLittleMermaid: Also I'm at Bridgeton and oh my god

Hiro Hamada: DO I NEED TO CALL AUNT CASS ARE YOU OKAY?!

Gogo: Oh no

TheLittleMermaid: I'm fine!

TheLittleMermaid: They keep talking about Big Hero 6. The student body are superhero nerds I can't

Fredzilla: Omg!

Wasabi: What are they saying about them?

Rachel Rosemary: Jimmy Newton is a fan of the lizard, Chad Porter is a speedy fan, Ambrose Williams has a crush on the green one, Barry Beckenbaur likes the red one the most, Claira Ryder's favorite is pink and Cindy Verona's a Captain Cutie fangirl

David Ferns: We have no idea who these people are

TheLittleMermaid: Same

Hiro looked up from his phone at the mention of another person who had a crush on his superhero persona. Whyyyyyy. He groaned.

"Settle down, settle down students!" Ari put her phone away as her first class began. It was math, taught none other than Sarah Rosemary. Rachel was sitting next to her, and flashed her a thumbs up.

She ignored the blue still hiding in the backpack sticking her tongue out.
Sarah started the class. "Now, I hope you all had a very relaxing break, but first, we have two new students joining us today."

Wait. "What?" Ari whispered. "Two?" She turned to Rachel, who shrugged. Both of them did not expect that twist.

"Most teachers introduce new students in order of first names, but I thought it would be nice to go in order of last names." Sarah explained. "So, Ms. Cruz, would you like to introduce yourself to the class?"

A girl around their age stood up, she had dark-tanned skin, her brown hair was in bangs and a ponytail, she had light brown eyes with a golden glint to them. She was wearing a green-striped shirt, a black hoodie with green cuffs, blue capris, navy sneakers, and there was a green clip in her bangs.

"Hi, I'm Megan Cruz." She nervously waved, Ari could feel her pain, she'd have to introduce herself soon. "I really love photography, and I really want to be a journalist when I grow up. I'm very good at finding stories."

One of the boys, Ambrose. Ari remembered, raised his hand. "So does that mean you're into a lot of gossip or something, when you say you're a journalist?"

A few kids tried not to snicker. "No, I'm not that kind of journalist." Megan narrowed her eyes. "I'm one that wants to get the truth to the people."

"So like Rachel?" Ari blurted out, then covered her mouth in embarrassment. Why did I say that out loud?!

"Wow." Rachel snickered. "Glad you think I'm so honest."

"Uh." Oh great now the new girl was giving her weird looks. "I'm flattered?"

The whole class burst into laughter as Ari sunk slowly into her seat.

"Settle down class!" Sarah silenced them. "Thank you for introducing yourself Ms. Cruz." She then turned her attention to the still flustered Ari. "Now, would you like to introduce yourself Ms. Rosemary?"

Ari was about to speak but another student cut her off. "Wait, Rosemary?" It was the sophomore girl named Cindy. "Is she your cousin?"

Several students started chattering until Rachel groaned loudly and pinched the bridge of her nose. "You guys gossip more than the news." She facepalmed. "We have three people with the last name Smith in this class and none of them are related, just because Ari has the same last name as me doesn't mean we're related. Capiche?!"

The irritation in her green eyes shut the rest of the class up. "Sorry." They all gave meek apologies.

"It's fine." Ari waved it off, she noticed there was a tense frustration in her friend's eyes, so she didn't want to add to that. "Um, I'm Ariel Rosemary, not related to Rachel as she said, I'm adopted." She nervously chuckled. "I'm also a Big Hero 6 fan, I like helping my aunt in the cafe, and I really hate eels, they're gross."

"Well now that that's settled." Sarah turned to the board. "We will begin today's assignment, grab a tablet everyone, I will be calling each row to grab a tablet-"

Ari didn't get a chance to talk to her fellow new girl until lunch.

Which was at the end of the day. Bridgeton's cafeteria was rather large, it had a cafe, a fountain and an outdoor section where students could chill in the school garden.

"Hey, it's Ariel!" She was about to try and find a spot to sight when a familiar brown-haired boy with hazel eyes dragged her over to a seat by the cafe.
"Hank!" Ari greeted him. "Your school is awesome!"

"Thanks." The soccer boy grinned. "Janice sadly, is sick today, but Chad will fill her in. How have you been since Halloween?"
"Peachy." She yawned, then stopped when seeing who was also by the table. "Uh, hi."

"Hey." Megan waved. "So, you're new too?"
"New to this school, yeah." Ari clapped her hands. "I've been in online school for the past few months."

"Oh, I just moved here last week." Megan explained. "After the whole thing with..." She trailed off. "The star."
"Yeah." Ari winced. "That was scary."

"I just hid in my parent's room and cried." Hank spoke up.
"Same but in my garage."

They both high-fived.

"Well, well, well." Rachel strolled up to the table. "I see the new girls are getting along."
"Oh shut up." Ari grumbled. "And where were you?"

"Trying to get Katie to not dig up the tulips in the courtyard again."
"What?"
"What."

Rachel just huffed and took a seat next to Megan. "Nice to meet you."

"Thanks." They both shook hands. "A few students mentioned you here and there, you must be one of the popular girls."
She just snickered. "Only because popularity is judged in niceness."

"Wait, you're popular?" Hank teased, and got a jab to the shoulder.
"Oh hush."

"Can I ask how come you and your parents moved here?" Ari asked.

"Well my dad got a new job here." She answered, but Megan glanced away. "And uh, it's just me and my dad now."
"Oh." Ari's eyes widened. "I'm so sorry for your loss."

"No-no-no It's not that my mom is dead or anything..." Megan trailed off. "She and my dad are divorced."
"Oof." Rachel frowned. "I take it that it wasn't the best divorce?"

"I'm not answering that to a stranger." She glared at Rachel, who backed off.
"Fair enough." She raised her hands in defence, then noticed Ari was on her phone. "What are you doing?"

"Texting my brother." Ari curled her lip. "Lucky jerk gets a free trip to Sycorax today! And he KNOWS that I can't go so he's rubbing it in with his stupid smug face and… UHG!" She groaned. "He is SO dead when I get home."

Rachel exchanged a weird look with Hank. "Someone sounds jealous."
"You don't say..."

Meanwhile with Hiro!

He had entered the Robotics lab, only to find Professor Granville was speaking to the students. "Um..."
"Pssst. Hiro." Sara whispered, gesturing for him to come over. David was next to her, listening to the dean.

"What's going on?" He walked up to them.

"Granville is taking some students with her on a trip to Sycorax." David told him. "Since they donated to our Biotech building and some of our students are interning there now."

"It's gonna be weird not seeing Mika as much." Sara hummed. "But she really wants to do some good on her new job."
"Good for her." Hiro winced at the mention of Mikan, he didn't hate her after last semester, but it was awkward. "Uh, I kind of hope I go. I haven't been to Sycorax except from what Ari told me."

"Even though the little-I mean Karmi will be there?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Don't remind me..." He didn't want to have to think of her stupid smirking face!

David snickered with amusement.

In the end, Hiro, his friends, and a handful of other students were chosen to go on the trip. However Fred couldn't go because he wasn't a student, and he had to leave Baymax with Fred, which sucked.

As everyone was piled on the bus, he was sitting next to Sara as everyone chattered in excitement.

"I can't wait to see Sycorax!" He heard Honey Lemon exclaim.

"Me too!" He heard another student exclaim.

Gogo just rolled her eyes. "Eh, I'm not expecting much."
"I'm expecting a lot." Wasabi grinned.

"I just hope it's got better employee policies than Krei-Tech." David frowned. "Otherwise I'm having a talk with Liv."
"Same!" Sara called out, then turned to him. "What about you Hiro?"

"Hm?" He was thinking about something.

"What do you think?"
"Oh uh." He frowned. "I was thinking about my brother, he was excited about the idea of us going on class trips together."

"Ah." Sara nodded with understanding. "He'd probably either make sure nothing bad happens to you during the trip or else, or question everything."
"Yeah he would." Hiro snickered. "He'd have to drag me away from everything because I'd be so invested with everything!"

Sara giggled at the thought. "I think he'd have fun, I wish he could see it himself."

"Me too." Hiro took her hand. "Are you gonna be okay with Mikan?"
"What?" She raised an eyebrow. "She's my sister, why wouldn't I be?"

"Remember last semester?"

"Oh." Sara frowned. "I don't blame her for being tricked by her dad, but I'm upset that she didn't question him, did she really trust him more than me? And the whole thing David and his mom... Mika didn't want him to tell me I just..." She sighed. "Maybe it's because I can't relate to them, my mom was horrible, but she wasn't a supervillain."

Ouch. Hiro winced in sympathy. Maybe I should join the others on the 'ignoring Mikan bandwagon'. "Just because you didn't have their problem doesn't mean you can't be there for them."
"Yeah." She sighed. "But I do know what it's like to be in a dark place right now."

Hiro watched as she traced the cut scars on her wrists and arm. "Sara?"

"I'm really scared Mika's gonna spiral like I did and she'll try to..." Sara shuddered, her fingers nervously scratching at her scarred wrists. "She'll… try to-"

"Hey-hey-hey." Hiro held up his hands in comfort. "Everyone might be mad at her, but none of us would let her go that path." While he and his friends were still mad, they also were worried about Mikan's mental health, despite what happened, she still was their friend. "Maybe you should tell your parents if this is eating you up so much."

"I don't know." She sighed. "I don't want to worry them."
"Sara…"

"Fine!" Sara huffed. "I will, but on one condition."
Can't be that bad. "Okay."

"You have to be nice to Karmi for our entire trip to Sycorax."

"I hate you right now."
"Love you too!"

AN: Next week we'll get to episode territory but here's the build up

And also Megan! I love Megan, she gets to appear early and she is AWESOME!

At this point in time the Nerd Gang are still unsure about forgiving Mikan as she did do some bad things last season, eventually they will but for a little bit they'll give her some time. Dw none of them would be jerks, Sara is just being Concerned about her sister.

QOTW: Favorite student from Bridgeton?

Anyways prepare! hehehehe :3c