It was a normal day in Hope's Peak, Halloween was coming close and a lot of students were preparing for it or were already prepared for it.
As for certain gacha lovers club…
"What are you doing here Natsumi?" Hajime asked his girlfriend.
The Yakuza princess, for her part, was reading a magazine drinking orange juice, partly because her boyfriend's obsession with it rubbed off on her.
"What? I can't chill out here? This club is one of the few places that allow Reserve Course Students to access, plus I want to spend time with my handsome boyfriend~"
"You're bored and got into a fight with Sato again"
"Ok true on the first one and not on the second one, we don't fight anymore since Mahiru started dating my brother…we both pretty much lost there so there isn't much to fight over at this point. And the part about wanting to hang with you is true as well" She said shrugging.
"Ok, fair enough" Hajime then noticed she had some of the prizes he won from the Gashapon machine. "Why did you grab those?"
"It's only the ones you won, and the ones you we're going to give to me"
That was true, she guessed which ones he was going to give to her, he didn't know if that's because they know each other that much or he was that predictable.
"Fine, let's hang out then" He said sitting in one of the puffs next to her.
"So how was your day? You know, apart from being boring?" Asked Hajime.
"Eh, fine. Me and Sato were doing our usual people watching without you, it's not as fun by the way"
Hajime nodded, he, Natsumi and Sato usually did people watching…which consisted of pointing at people and either snark or laugh at them…
When you're in the Reserve Course you need to let out your frustrations somewhat…you know aside from s-forget what he said.
"I was also trying to practice my photography skills, I hate to admit it but Mahiru did help me improve a lot, even Sato complimented them"
"Of course she should, they're amazing"
"Aww, thanks sweetheart~" She said in a mocking overly-cute tone.
"I see you're also getting along with Mahiru better"
"Sadly yeah, though it isn't annoying how she sometimes jokes about being my older sister now" She rolled her eyes.
"You did pick on her before" He pointed out.
"True, but I'm making an effort to accept her, she shouldn't make it harder than it already is"
"Fair"
"How was your day then?"
"It was fine, hanging out with your Brothers class again"
"Sometimes I feel you're the unofficial member of that class, like you belong there"
"Maybe, buuut I wouldn't have get to know you as well as I did without getting into the reserve course, so I'm fine with things the way they are"
"I still wonder sometimes how you're able to afford going there, you aren't loaded from what I gathered" Natsumi wondered.
Hajime's smile became strained for a second. "I have my ways" was all that he said.
"Hey, were you hanging with that Nagito guy again?" She asked worriedly.
"Yeah, why?"
"You ok?"
"Yes Natsumi, don't worry, nothing happened to me" He rolled his eyes.
"Look, nothing against your friend, it's actually weirdly cool once I got to know him…but his luck…"
Hajime sighed, Natsumi worried about him whenever he hung out with Nagito. Not because she had anything against him…not anymore at least. But because his luck put everyone around him in danger.
He knew this, Natsumi knew this, he himself knew this…but Nagito was his friend, he was someone that understood him the same way Natsumi did, so he did his best to be his friend despite the danger and Nagito trying to push him away.
"It's fine, you know I'll be careful…but if something happens please try not to blame him"
"I promise I'll try, still kinda hard when you and my brother hang around him constantly trying to be his friend…it's sucks that we can't use Makoto to cancel out his luck"
Hajime nodded, one time they thought of the theory that Makoto and Nagito's luck would cancel each other out…it did not work, Makoto's luck made him immune to Nagito's but it only affected Makoto, not anyone else…
"Were you guys talking about me?"
Speak of the devil and he will come.
"Hey pipsqueak, catch this!" Said Natsumi to the lucky student who entered the club as she tossed him a doctor hopper can.
"You're only two centimeters taller than him," Hajime pointed out.
"Still means I'm taller," Natsumi shrugged.
Makoto shrugged and opened the can…only for it to break and all his content to fall off.
Far from being bothered by this, Makoto asked out loud. "Junko, you can come out whenever you are"
Suddenly Junko came out of the closet…literally.
"And once again, I failed to kill you" She said In a faux dramatic voice. "...How despairing," She said, salivating.
"Ugh, get a room, you two" Natsumi rolled her eyes.
"You two have no room to talk, or do I have to remind you of the depraved things you were doing that one time we entered the club?" Junko pointed out.
"YOU PROMISED TO NEVER BRING IT UP AGAIN!" Natsumi shouted with a red face of embarrassment.
"Come on, none of the stuff we did can compare to what you two got up to" Hajime pointed out.
Makoto shrugged. "You got us there"
Being the boyfriend of Junko Enoshima tends to slowly erode your shame, besides he was more comfortable with the other members of the club and their girlfriends.
"Hey, we're normal compared to the Inventor bitch and her boyfriend," Junko said.
"No you're not you despair bitch"
Everyone turned around to see Miu and Shuichi having entered the club.
"Hey buddy" Makoto and Hajime waved.
"Hey guys" Greeted Shuichi.
"Hey Yakuza pipsqueak, hey despair bitch" Miu greeted them.
"Hi Inventor bitch" Greeted Natsumi.
"Hi and no, you two aren't normal either" Junko said.
"Compared to you two we are, but I didn't come here for that. I came here to show you guys my awesome new invention, it will rock your socks off!" Miu bragged.
"Another "Do it while you sleep" inventions?" Junko snarked.
"First off you all fucking use them, so don't go dissing my awesome work like that. Second no, it isn't like that…it's the motherfucking palette Swapper" She took out a modified paintball gun.
"Why does it look like a paintball gun?" Hajime asked.
"The Palette Swapper is an invention that changes your hair and eye color. Kinda like the options to change your color palette in video games" Shuichi explained for Miu to make it clear and to the point.
"That's right, with this bad boy we won't have to waste money on wigs, hair dye or contact lenses, much easier to use as well" Miu bragged.
"Huh…that's actually rather useful. Amazon coming from you" Junko said.
"Fuck off!"
"Does it have a time limit? Do you need to apply again after a certain time?" Makoto asked.
"Nu uh, once I use this the only way to change it back is using this machine. Even if you shave your hair will grow back to the changed color"
"That's rather impressive…and a bit worrisome" Hajime pointed out.
"Yesh don't worry, it doesn't change you in any weird way or give you some defect, me and my darling Shuichi already tested it" The inventor rolled her eyes.
"We already ironed most of the bugs out," Shuichi admitted with a sweatdrop.
"Besides, this shit is perfect for Halloween coming up" Miu pointed out.
"Yeah, that's a good point," Hajime agreed.
"If it works like you said it does, then yeah. I guess I can test it out. Means I don't have to waste on hair dye and contacts constantly" Junko shrugged.
"So you want to be my second test subject?" Miu asked snuggly.
"Yeah yeah…it better not make anything weird or you're getting" Junko said in an actually threatening tone.
"Eep!" This actually scared Miu. "Fine, fine. Nothing bad will happen…so what color do you want?" She asked.
Junko moved her blonde hair to reveal the red hair hiding under it, then took out her contacts too.
"Give me my blonde hair and blue eyes as my actual colors" She said.
Miu was doing some touches in the machine. "Blonde hair and blue eyes coming right up!" Then she aimed the gun at Junko, pulled the trigger…and suddenly any trace of red hair in her head became blonde and her eyes became blue.
"It worked," Natsumi pointed out.
"Are you ok Junko?" Makoto asked.
"...Yup, I'm alright, nothing out of the ordinary. Nice work so far, Inventor bitch" Junko said, in a way feeling oddly satisfied that she was now Junko completely, no trace of her former appearance to be found here.
"You're welcome Despair Bitch, anyone else needs another makeover?" She asked the others.
"Now that you're asking…could you give me red eyes? Please?" Makoto asked.
"No problem!" She programmed her gun again and fired, Makoto's emerald green eyes becoming Ruby Red.
Junko took out a little mirror she had and passed it to Makoto who looked at it. "Thanks! This is perfect for my Halloween costume" Makoto said.
"I need to change my eyes back to red for my costume too. It's gonna be fucking amazing" Junko said.
"You want it now?" Asked Shuichi.
"Nah, I meet you up at the party and you change my eyes there, for now I'm gonna keep it like this"
"I want to hold the change until the party too, I have the perfect costume to choose now" Said Natsumi cockily.
"Yeah, me too. Good job with the invention Miu" Hajime said as well.
"Was there ever any doubt with my golden brain?" Miu asked cockily.
"No dear, no there wasn't," Shuichi said, which made Miu all happy.
"We need to prepare our Halloween costumes too, we're gonna fucking kill it with what we have in store!" Miu bragged.
And so the rest of the trio prepared for Halloween.
"They're taking an eternity, for fucks sake we need them to make the costumes work" Junko whined.
"Calm down, Junko it's only the eyes for you that are left"
"Yeah, we're still missing the hair and eyes for our costumes, they don't work without them" Whined Natsumi as well.
"It's a good thing I prepared ahead of time," Makoto said.
"And I'm guessing you got a lot of questions for you suddenly having red eyes," Hajime pointed out.
"Yeah, I did," Makoto admitted.
The quartet was waiting for the other part of their group to arrive, all dressed in their Halloween attires.
Hajime was dressed the same as Nero from Devil May Cry 4 (One of his favorite games of all time). Natsumi was dressed as an older version of Hat Kid from a Hat in Time (Her favorite game, don't ask). Junko was dressed as…Junko, from Touhou Project (because what better Halloween costume than dressing yourself as a spirit of pure resentment that looks like you and has the same name?) And Makoto was dressed as Storyshift Chara (Because apart from looking like them, they had the same passion for Green Hoodies).
"Sorry we're late!"
They heard Shuichi's voice and saw him alongside Miu. Shuichi was dressed and even styled his hair in a similar way to Sonic The Hedgehog, wearing a red and white hoodie and blue pants (taken from official art of a human Sonic). His hair turned a more vibrant shade of blue while his eyes were Emerald Green.
Miu for her hand was dressed in a blue suit taken straight from Freedom Planet 1 Sash Lilac, her hair was even styled so it looked like it had two large tendrils and horns. Her hair was now purple and her eyes Magenta color.
"There you are, the fuck took you so long!?" Natsumi demanded.
"We were busy getting prepared, jeez you people need to learn about patience, maybe fuck while you waited, would help you chill out a bit" Miu dismissed.
Junko rolled her eyes. "Please, you two took so long because you fucked each other Before coming here"
This got both Shuichi and Miu blushing hard. "We did not!" They said at the same time.
"Really? You do know I'm the Super High School Level Analyst, are you gonna tell me I'm wrong?"
"Bu-"
"And Makoto doesn't count, he's special because he's the only one I can't predict"
"She's right, you know," Makoto added.
"W-whatever, what s-stupid color do you w-want?" She said embarrassed while taking out the palette Swapper.
"White Hair and Blue eyes" Shuichi said, then Miu changed those colors.
"Brown Hair and Blue eyes" Natsumi asked, then got her Palette Swapped.
"Red Eyes" Junko said and got her eyes changed to red.
"Now we match," Makoto pointed out.
"So do we," Hajime said pointing about him and Natsumi.
"And we match too, as speedy platformer characters" Shuichi said as well.
"Well, what the hell are we waiting for? Let's show those losers how to party!" Miu said.
"Let's just not make a repeat of last Halloween" Hajime said.
"You told me you weren't gonna bring that up!" Shuichi and Miu said.
"Sorry, sorry" Hajime apologized.
"And that goes to you two as well with the Halloween before that" She said to Makoto and Junko.
"We said we're sorry," Makoto said.
"You gotta let that go already," Junko said, annoyed.
"Whatever, let's get moving," Hajime said.
And so they all entered the party, what was it like? Well that will be left to your imagination…