"The tournament is tomorrow!" Yume cheered, grinning at Subaru.

"Yeah," he replied. "We're gonna win, right?"

"Of course!"

xxxxx

"Why don't you do the whole outfit changing process?" Yume asked.

"Umm... 'cuz boys don't really wear fancy outfits...?" Subaru responded uncertainately.

"Then how are we gonna do this?!" Yume yelled. "It'll be awkward if you just stand there waiting for me!"

"How about I'm in the school bus... and then when you show up I jump out or something?"

(The school bus thing... I'm referring to the bus Laura stands on in the beginning when she's singing.)

"You can jump on top of a bus?" Yume asked.

"Umm... no..."

"This is bad! What are we gonna do?!"

"Need help?"

Yume and Subaru turned around.

"Ako-chan! Koharu-chan! Laura! Everyone else in M4!" Yume grinned.

"That sounds kind of rude to Asahi and Nozomu and Kanata..." Subaru muttered.

"Let me run a full scan of my brain database..." Ako said. "Tick tick tick... ding-dong!"

(It's from my memory, don't kill me if it's a bit off or whatever.)

"What is it?" Yume asked, eager to listen.

"Ummm..." Ako said. "I actually don't know. Also, what are Kanata and I going to do, as well?"

"That's right," Laura realized. "What are we going to do?" She looked at Nozomu.

"I'm sure we can think of something," Koharu reasurred.

"I got it!" Yume suddenly said.

"What?" The others pressed.

"Go ask Mahiru!"

They all fell over anime style.

xxxxx

"What are we going to do?" Mahiru asked, gesturing to her and her partner. "Kaito-kun and I? Since he doesn't have to do the outfit thing?"

(OC: His full name is Kaito Hotta, he has pale blue hair, so pale it looks silver, and electric blue eyes.)

"We're doing 'Episode Solo'," she said. "And he's singing the first line, so I'll purposefully show up just a few seconds later and sing the next line."

(See the first "Aikatsu! Stars" ending. Hime and Tsubasa sing first, then Yuzu and Yozora. There's like a seven second pause between them.)

"Smart!" Ako noted.

"So what are you all doing?" Kaito asked.

"Nozomu and I are doing 'One Step'," Laura said.

(I listened to two versions of this: Sky Girl and Yuzukosho. They. Were. So. Different. Sky Girl's sounded super mature, like Laura and Nozomu, and Yuzukosho... had Yume and Ako in it. You already know how it sounds.)

"Koharu-chan and I are doing 'Popcorn Dreaming'!" Asahi grinned.

(I dunno why, but I can totally see him singing and dancing that...)

"Ako and I are doing 'Dreaming Bird'," Kanata said.

(Honestly, this one was the hardest. Ako and Kanata are like so different! I watched so many videos to find this... SO BE GRATEFUL!)

"Subaru-kun and I are doing '1, 2, Sing for You'!" Yume ended.

"Okay..." Mahiru said, deep in thought.

"So everyone... just do the same thing Kaito-kun and I are doing. The girl purposely show up after the boy, just in time to sing your part. That should work for every song."

"All right!" Yume cheered. "Thanks, Mahiru!"