A half an hour later, Ruby and Iida stood on the track, with the rest of class 1-A, save for Izuku, in the stands, watching. The race was simple; one lap around the track. Begrudgingly, Ruby let Mina fire Crescent Rose into the air for a starting gun.
When the gun fired, the engines on Iida's legs roared to life, rocketing the boy forward. He looked behind himself to find Ruby but found she was still next to him, bursting into a trail of rose petals. The two were neck and neck the entire race, but Ruby barely beat out Iida, but only by a hair.
"So, does anyone else have any questions?" Ruby asked, taking back Crescent Rose from Mina.
"What does that thing do?" Ochaco asked, pointing to Crescent Rose.
"Oh, this little thing? It's just a scythe," Ruby twirled the scythe around like a baton and planted its handle into the ground. "Also, it's a customizable high-impact sniper rifle." This was met with a collective what? "It's also a gun." A chorus of ohs was heard from the rest of the class.
"Tenya, run back to the dorm and find me a frisbee!" Mina said, excited. Tired, the young speedster ran back, found a frisbee, and presented it to mina.
"What's this for?" Ruby asked curiously.
"Alright, Ochaco, use your quirk to make this thing float. Katsuki, throw it as hard as you can, and put some explosive power into it! Ruby, I need to you try and shoot the frisbee! Got it!" Mina said.
Katsuki used the power of pure, unadulterated rage to throw the frisbee. Seconds later, Ruby shot at it, and Ochaco released her Quirk to let the frisbee fall. When Mina picked up the frisbee, she found that Ruby had shot a hole straight through it.
"Wow, Ruby. Those are some good sniping skills. Load up some tranquilizer darts or some dummy rounds, and you could be really good at supporting other heroes from afar." Mina encouraged. The class then walked back to the dorm room, and they told Ruby more about themselves. However, they were quickly stopped.
"I have a great idea since it's the weekend!" Toru said excitedly, putting a sheet of paper on a tack board. "Now, since Ruby here needs to get to know all of us a little better, and she needs supplies for her dorm and clothes, I'm thinking we all go to the mall tomorrow. Now, this is where the sheet comes in. You'll sign up for a time slot to hang out with Ruby in groups of no more than three." Toru explained.
The next morning, the sheet read:
Morning shopping (Room Supplies): Denki, Kyoka, Toru
Lunch: Katsuki, Eijirou, Tsu
Afternoon shopping (Clothes): Tenya, Ochaco, Mina
Dinner: Momo, Shoto
Ruby looked at the sheet. While she didn't enjoy other people, she was willing to put up with them for extended periods of time. Hey, at least this time she was about the others' age and hadn't been moved ahead two years. After Ruby showered and got breakfast, she met Denki, Kyoka, and Toru at the school gates.
Denki wore a plain blue t-shirt, some grey shorts, and white tennis shoes. Next to him was Kyoka, wearing a black leather jacket, a pink t-shirt, and ripped black pants. Third was Toru, wearing a blue tank top and pink shorts with pink tennis shoes.
"Well, are you ready to go?" Toru asked, maybe raising her hand in excitement, Ruby really wasn't sure.
"Can I ask a weird question, Toru?" Ruby asked as the four stood on the train platform in the station. Toru accepted, and let Ruby ask the question. "If you're invisible, how do you see? Shouldn't your retinas also be invisible?"
A loud whoosh could be heard, the train stopped, and Ruby, Toru, Denki and Kyouka entered.
"So, Ruby. Tell us a little bit about your world. What's your school like?" Kyouka asked.
"Well, people are given a partner during the initiation, and are later grouped up with another pair to form a team of four, with one person designated as the leader." Ruby continued explaining her world, talking about her friends Jaune, Blake, and maybe Weiss, as well as her sister, Yang.
"Your sister sounds a lot like Katsuki if he ever decided to mellow out." Toru joked. Ruby internally screamed. They must never know, she thought.
"I know. They would either hate each other and kill one another, or they would be best friends. Or maybe both. Yep, probably both. Try to kill each other, then become best friends." Ruby continued muttering, and Toru, Kyouka, and Denki burst out laughing, and then stopped in sadness. "What? Did I do something wrong?" Ruby asked, as the group stepped off the train, having arrived at the mall.
"It's nothing, Ruby." Kyouka comforted the young Huntress. "You just remind us of a friend, Izuku Midoriya. We lost him a couple weeks ago, and when you showed up, it make some of us a little heartbroken. Hopefully, Katsuki doesn't blow you up over it. Actually, you should worry about Shoto too."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know he, well, you know." Ruby tried to explain.
"Izuku didn't die. Well, at least some of us have that theory. For a couple days, we had heroes searching all over the globe for him, but he just vanished off the face of the earth." Denki explained. "We didn't even find a corpse. Even if he was dead, there would at least be a body to identify, but there wasn't. That tells me, Uraraka, Tsu, Tenya, Toru, and Shoto something's fishy about this."
"Let's move to a more positive note, and get some room supplies!" Toru said, excitedly. "So, do you have any design ideas?" Toru asked.
"Actually, there's a few things I do need. Is there a sporting goods store anywhere around here?" Ruby asked. A few minutes later, the group found themselves looking at bungee cords.
"And you need these for room decoration?" Denki asked, suspiciously.
"Yep! I thought about designing my room in a combination of what I have at my home, and at my dorm room at Beacon. And that means some wood, some nails, a hammer, and some bungee cord!" Ruby said, picking up some bungee cord, paying for it with some money she received from Nezu, and leaving. "I can probably get the tools from the other courses."
The group then decided to get some curtains for the room. Toru suggested a bright red and pink design, but Ruby went with the black and red floral patterned ones, as well as getting matching sheets.
After this, Toru let her up to the food court, where Ruby met with Katsuki, Eijirou, and Tsu for lunch. The group got their food, and ate in silence, until Ruby tried to make some small talk.
"So, um, how's the food?" Ruby said, awkwardly.
"It's fucking great." Bakugo said, chowing down on his extra-spicy noodles. Eijirou looked at her.
"He's always like this, it's not just you." Ruby's shoulders relaxed, and her posture loosened.
"Denki and Kyouka told me about your friend Izuku. What was he like?" Ruby asked, as Katsuki made small explosions with his sweat in anger.
"You shouldn't have done that." Eijirou said, ducking for cover.
