U.A. Cafeteria

"I still have more cute babies to show you! I promise you they are the best babies that I can produce and will work well with your quirk! Didn't you see those gauntlets?! Aren't they just the most innovative baby I made?"

Mei was still rambling on while being led by Cassie toward the U.A. Cafeteria. Cassie was inwardly glad that Power Loader had intervened and told both of them to go get food, because she felt bad interrupting Mei's one-sided conversation, but at the same time she was really hungry. Mei's stomach grumbling and cutting off her speech earlier solidified the decision. Cassie was so excited to finally get to see the famed cafeteria of U.A. where Lunch Rush is currently serving amazing food. She suddenly realized that, there might be her future classmates currently eating dinner in the room and that she doesn't know what to expect.

"Please tell me that you like your gauntlets, I spent so much time working on them! Power-Loader didn't let me fully work on anything but your gauntlets! Your interchangeable boots are almost done, so please please please come back to our workshop tomorrow to try them on too!"

Cassie chuckled and nodded enthusiastically, Mei's enthusiasm rubbing onto her. Truth to be told, she was so blown away at how well the gauntlets work with her costume and at how great Mei was at her craft. Cassie was glad that Mei was so welcoming and positive, and was really happy to consider Mei her new friend.

Too busy listening to Mei's rambles, she didn't realize that she had arrived at the cafeteria and Mei pushed open the doors a bit too harshly. The double doors slammed against the wall loudly, the cafeteria immediately quiet down and all eyes stared at her. Luckily, that didn't faze Mei at all as she began to pull Cassie toward the food line, now explaining to Cassie which food is available for dinner and the cafeteria hours. Cassie tried to not make any eye contact out of embarrassment, but she could still hear some hushed conversation around her.

"Isn't that the Seiai Academy uniform?"

"What's a Seiai student doing here?"

"Oh no, she's now within Mei's clutch. I feel bad for her."

"Oh wow, she's really tall and look just like a model."

"I wondered what her quirk is?"

"Isn't that the Cassie girl that got added into our dorm this year?"

That caught her attention and she turned to look for the owner of the voice, and found a floating U.A. uniform sitting at a booth with a blonde hair girl with horns, and a girl with short brown bob with her bang covering her eyes. As soon as she made eye contact with girls, they all got flustered and stared at their food instead. Before Cassie could do anything, a tray of food got shoved into her arms and Mei's face appeared onto her vision.

"So tonight we have Bibimbap, and Pho in additional to our daily Udon noodle, Katsudon rice, Ramen, Steak and Potatoes, and Glazed salmon rice. Just tell Lunch Rush what you would like, and he can whipped them up for you within seconds!"

Two minutes later, with her tray of Bibimbap secured in hands, Cassie followed Mei to find an empty table to sit at. Mei then made eye contact with someone in the crowd, and pulled Cassie along with her.

"Hello, Mei! Great to meet you again! I hope you had a great summer break! Who do you have with you here?"

Izuku gestured to her, and suddenly everyone at the table turned to look at Cassie. She smiled shyly and gave everyone at the table a small wave. Before she could answer the question, Mei had already launched into a full dialogue about her summer and surprisingly, she was relieved that Mei took charge of the conversation because Cassie was starting to get overwhelmed at the stares not only from the occupants of the table but also the entire cafeteria. Cassie then took advantage of the situation to fully observe the table in front of her. Besides Mei's friend, there was a girl with short brown bob, a guy with glasses who looked like a strict type, a handsome guy with half-red-half-white hair with different colored eyes, a cute guy with purple hair and major eye bags, and a girl with orange hair in a side ponytail. She was familiar with Izuku, Shouto, Ochako, and Tenya. She regularly watched U.A.'s Sports Festival every year, and those four were among the top contenders of the festival. Two of them were rumored to be the new U.A.'s Big Three and she believed it.

"Excuse me, I believe you are standing in my way to sit down with my food. What business would a stuck-up Seiai's student doing here? Aren't you too busy paying for friends and for your hero position to hang out with us? I bet you have to have some connections in the hero industry to be able to go to Seiai, judging at how proudly you wear that uniform at another hero school."

Whipping her head around, Cassie locked eyes with a blonde-hair guy who was barely taller than her. She was taken aback at first at how rude he sounded, but at the same time she was shocked at how close he was standing to her. Mei shifted behind her and grinned forcefully, but her eyes narrowed.

"Awe come on, Monoma. Don't be harsh to your new classmate! She is already enrolled and transferred to U.A., so she deserves to be here as much as everyone of us."

Mei commented sharply, and Cassie was mildly surprised at the immediate change in her demeanor. But what Monoma said really hurted. It was ignorant and so wrong, and Cassie knew that he was trying to get a reaction out of her. And she doesn't intend on giving him what he wanted.

"Hey Mei, did you hear something?"

Mei turned to look at Cassie with a shocked look on her face, as Cassie pretended to look around past Monoma. Soon, Mei caught on with her intention.

"Now that you mentioned it, I thought I heard something too. What do you think it was that we heard?"

"I don't know, Mei. Could have been a fly that happened to get into the room. I really hope that fly is able to get out, insects that got trapped in air-conditioned rooms don't usually last."

Monoma was gaping at the girls blatantly ignoring him, and everyone in the room were gaping at how Cassie was handling the situation. Before he could say anything, Cassie turned to him with a fake shocked gasp.

"Oh my, I didn't see you there. I'm so sorry, I was distracted by some irrelevant bug noises. Thank you for reminding us of our food. We'll be heading to our table to eat our food and let you eat your food. Our bad."

Cassie's voice was dripping with fake sweetness as she pulled Mei toward a booth at the far-right corner of the cafeteria, Mei's grinning widely as she followed her new friend to the said table. As soon as they both arrived at the table, Cassie let out a big sigh and turned to the wall with a despair-filled face.

"Did I really just do that oh my lord, I don't want to make any bad connection at my new school and the new school year just barely started oh my god. Please just end me right there Mei, please just end me right there!"

Cassie wailed out quietly as Mei finally let out her loud cackle, patting Cassie's arm lightly.

Back at Izuku's table

"Earth to Monoma, are you there?"

Itsuka Kendo waved her hand in front of a still shell-shocked Monoma, fighting a smirk that was slowly begin to appear on her face.

"The nerve of that girl, who does she think she is?"

Monoma finally recover himself enough to sit down and grumbled, digging into his food harshly. When he looked up, he was once again shocked at what he saw.

"Todoroki and Shinsou?! Why are you both smiling?! Is this funny to you?"

The two people addressed shook their heads at the same time, and turned back to their food wordlessly, ignoring Monoma's accusing question.

"Why's everyone ignoring me?!"