Fighting was easy. It was simple to attack the punching bag hanging from the gym ceiling, circling around, ignoring the stares of the people around her. They were saying she was weak. Well, think this is weak? She threw a punch hard enough that a muscular man had to dodge out of its path so it hit the wall instead. He left muttering about grade it swung back, she kicked it back. It stopped just short of the wall. She looked to see who had stopped it. A tanned guy with bleach-blond hair looked down at Ruby with obvious scorn.

"The little kid's gym is over there-the basketball court. This place is fifteen and up." He pointed at the door. She gritted her teeth. "I AM fifteen! I have to practice for me job, so get out of my way."

The man smirking, tossing his beach-blond hair. Ruby hated him instantly. "What kind of job could a little kid like you have? Volunteer lifeguard's asisstant?" His friends laughed in the background. Ruby pushed a strand of her dark brown hair out of her face. "I could show you...You'd just have to come with me for a little bit. After all, it is pretty wimpy. You wouldn't be impressed. I just like watching your stupid little ignorant faces grinning with delight when you realize that your blatantly obvious guess was right." She faked cheerfulness. The guy shrugged. "Eh, why not. Go on, little kid."

Ruby turned and left, beckoning. She walked along, listening to his flip flops against the tile floor. She nodded to the receptionist who she was on decent terms with. After about a minute they left through the back the door into the small, loud area by the backup generators. (There had been a blackout after the most recent fight and gyms were last priority.)

She reached into her small pants pocket and pulled out her wallet. He raised an eyebrow as she hesitated. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, show me the wimp card."

"I wouldn't be saying that if I were you."

"Well, you're not, are ya, little chick?"

"I don't think you can handle the truth."

She didn't see it coming. He grabbed her by the front of the shirt, slamming her against the wall. "Shut up and show, you little-"

"Uh-uh. Don't insult me."

She pulled out a white ID card. It had her age, a picture of her, the Kronos Orginazation symbol and name...and her occupation.

The jerk read out loud. "Kronos Orginazation.." There was mild surprise in his voice. "Ruby G. Crystal, age fifteen, born July 30'th, 3005...occupation...What the-"

Ruby grinned. "Go on."

"Uh..."

"Go on. I dare you. Otherwise you would've lost to humanity's third best...read it!"

He gulped. "Uhm...Pilot of Titan Unit Four..."

Ruby laughed. "The one and only. Now, I'm going to get down..."She lashed out with her leg, kicking him in the chest. He jerked back in surprise, rubbing the pressure point she had hit as Ruby landed neatly on the concrete.

"Training, bro! By the way, if there were security cameras going right now, you would've been court-martialed. But I made sure there aren't, even though you're a sexist jerk who just works out to impress the ladies who have literally no brains! Like almost all of my classmates."

"Uh...?"

Pearl wrote absentmindedly. She was idly going through random math problems that came to mind, waiting for her break to end.

"If this and this are...then X equals the same as Y..."

"Hey, Pearl!"

She turned around. A tall woman with a suit and traingular hair stood behind her, smiling.

"O-Oh! Hello, Sardonyx. How's...How's it going?"

"Pretty good. You?"

Pearl smiled nervously. "Um...Fine. I'm fine." Sardonyx's smile faded. "You don't seem like it." Pearl flushed pale pink. "Well...um...Well, the situation with Sapphire is tiring, and I've been working nights for a couple days, so I'm not used to it yet..."

"Seems like a lot more than that." Sardonyx sat down in the desk chair next to Pearl. "Lemma guess-Resipisco?"

Pearl straightened up, her pen dropping to the floor. "...Almost." Sardonyx narrowed her dark eyes.

"Let us ignore for the time being, yes?"

Haha go look up resipisco in google translate. You still won't figure out anything. Uh, unless you've seen Puella Magi Madoka Magica, read my mind, watched Gravity falls, Evangelion(congratulations), and the entirety of my crappy Warriors fic with Latin titles.

Good luck!