Chapter 2

"Lunch Time is Great"

Alarice loaded up her tray happily with anything that caught her eye, eating was an important part of living and she enjoyed good food. Which was slightly surprising to find in a high-school. Even a Hero High School.

"Why look at this! Now 1-A has an American Transfer all of their own!" A voice filled to its brim with condescension and mock humor. "Could it be that 1-A feels they need to compete 1-B for transfers now too?"

Alarice gave the blond in front of her a glassy-ed look, before walking away from him without another word. That was her class of course, on paper any way, and where she sat her ass in the morning. Either way she didn't have time from some taunting fool in the middle of the lunchroom attracting attention to her she didn't really want just yet.

Whatever else Monoma had to say to her was promptly ignored, before he was dragged off by his class president herself. Unseen by Alarice who was too absorbed in the nagging thought that she had no idea where to sit. Some place outside would probably be preferable to being in the crowded cafeteria. Never-mind who she could sit with, too? Did she even want to share her time and space with people who might not even like her by the end of the day?

She saw an arm sticking up, waving to her for sure. Having no where else to go obviously, Alarice went to the girl who had waved her down. Plopping down into the seat next to Momo Yaoyorzu, whom she had met that morning.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, you looked a little lost for a moment there." Momo responded, before taking a bite of her own food. Alarice noted then, that they both had quite a lot of food on their plates, at least compared to their two table-mates, Mina Ashido and Ochaco Uraraka.

Alarice just gave her a stiff nod, before taking a few bites herself, smiling just a little as she did so. It was good, and it was nice to have fresh food. It would have reminded her of home if any one knew at home knew how to cook.

"Lunch rush does a good job doesn't he?" Momo commented, cheerfully, noticing the way Alarice had piled up her tray, adding; "Trans-formative quirk that takes a lot out of you too, huh?"

Alarice stopped for a moment between her bites to look at Momo with slight confusion. "Yes?" she offered, not sure how to respond to that, worried that the girl was trying to worm the real answer out of her. "I think you told me earlier, but, what was your Quirk... Yaoyorozu?"

"Momo, and, its Creation."

Alarice nodded, trying to be polite, feeling a little rude that she'd had to ask. "I guess we both have to make up for what we use with our quirk." She tried to smile about it.

A silence settled into little gathering of people for lunch. Alarice looked cautiously to her table-mates as the silence began to drag on. Unsure of what to do to keep the conversation going before she became unwelcome. Uraraka beat her to it;

"Iida said you were told not to get attached before today?" Her voice was soft and combined with her appearance, made Uraraka easy to talk to. Alarice found herself increasingly liking her. She didn't even think before answering the question.

"Yes.. um.. I was advised by Aizawa sensei not to get too attached to any one because there wasn't any guarantee he was going to accept me into the class. " Alarice's voice was low, and her cheeks became dusted with pink. Till she noticed the faces of understanding and the nod she was getting from Momo Yaoyorozu.

"Is that.. just how Aizawa-sensei is?"

"Yup." she responded, smiling and nodding, before Momo continued for Uraraka. "He didn't say that, exactly, when we started, but he did tell us any one who failed his expectations on the first day would be expelled."

"He's a man in love with his logical ruses!" Mina Ashido said, in a humorous, if teasing tone to a man not standing (or laying) any where near by.

Alarice took note of Midoriya settling down next to Uraraka with his own food. His notebook with the pencil attached to it landing on the table first before the tray. Uraraka followed Momo's and Mina's statements with some encouragement; "He only says such harsh things to try and get the best he can out of us, he hasn't sent you home so, just keep doing your best in class and you'll be fine!"

Alarice nodded her head, not sure if she believed what she was being told just yet. Quietly munching on her food that she hadn't managed to wolf down yet, despite the conversation. Mina broke the silence this time; "Tell us about the two weeks of testing! We never saw you, what'd you have to do?"

Alarice paused for a second, mid chew, not sure how to respond. "Well, I needed to prove I could cut it to be here, so there was a lot of that. I um, also found out some new things about my transformed state, with my quirk, that hadn't been fully documented yet when they shipped me off." She started to mumble a little bit, it was a small stretch of the truth, before, she cleared her throat. "It's called adaption. It came from my mom, but its not something I can consciously use. So that got tested primarily, usually. There was some other stuff here and there."

She sipped on her drink before continuing, not really comfortable talking about such things around students who probably knew their quirks considerably better than she did despite being of the same age. "Aizawa-Sensei needed to get a baseline I guess, on how it functioned, since I only had an anecdotal story about its use with a student who could form thunderstorms." She stopped again to think about how to explain it. "I guess he didn't want to try possibly electrocuting me right off the bat, to see if I was right that I might be resistant electrical damage now."

"Well, could be bad news for Kaminari... assuming that's she's right and it's permanent now... mm" Midoriya mumbled loud enough that Alarice did hear it, and assumed he was actively participating. Remembering the excitable blonde she met that morning who was very proud of his electrical quirk.

"I mean, that's my working theory at the moment.. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, I guess?" Alarice answered for him.

Midoriya looked a little embarrassed but recovered quickly, some what use to being called out now at this point for getting involved in his notes and mumbling. Alarice flushed herself, realizing his own embarrassed flush on his cheeks.

"So, what did Aizawa-sensei do to get a baseline for it?" Midoriya asked, getting back to eating and thankfully putting the pencil down to focus more on the conversation in front of him. Alarice's flush didn't go away.

"Ohhh, what did you have to do?" Mina offered, encouraged and into this discussion now that they were getting somewhere with their transfer. It also helped that the flush was cute and now Mina definitely needed to know more.

"He asked Midnight to help him out." Alarice added, fiddling with some of her hair. "I mean it worked I guess, useful data was gotten but it was so, awkward. I mean I guess it was safe, its not like her quirk could hurt me."

Again Alarice found there were knowing nods around her by her new classmates, with the added bonus of Midoriya looking ready to start writing down whatever she had to say next in regard to that quirk function.

"I know what you're talking about, Midnight's an odd character." Momo added, finishing off her plate as soon as she was done talking.

"I wouldn't worry about her either, Alarice! She's all talk, even if its weird talk! She's a really good person once you get past her Hero Persona!" Mina added in again, with a wide smile, and even a little laugh. "So can she no longer put you to sleep, Stone?"

"Yes, I mean only when I'm a he-Transformed." Alarice recovered, her ears turned red this time and she quickly tried to change the subject. "So tell me about you guys, I don't know that much about any of you either!"

Uraraka looked at her a little concerned, even puzzled but Midoriya was the first to acquiesce in some way. Pushing his notebook over to her, in a show of friendship, and perhaps, in solidarity. The way she was acting about her quirk reminded him of his own when it had been 'name-less'. It still technically was, of course, but not as much as it had been when he had started.

"I've got notes on everyone if you want to look at it. Since you're just joining us, maybe you'll find it useful. We are going to have our first exercise after lunch after all." Midoriya's smile was welcoming and reassuring, bringing out one from Alarice too.

"Thank you, I appreciate it, Midoriya." And she spent the rest of her lunch, looking through the hand written pages while the others talked around her.