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"YOU'RE WHAT?!?" Philia winced at the volume her ears were subjected to. She expected this reaction, but she could have done without the hearing loss.

"I said-,"

Ryuko growled, "I know what the hell you said! But I wanna know why?!" she demanded, though for someone who couldn't move her body off the ground. She was currently being bandaged up by Mako, her dad having fixed her up. There were minor cuts and slices all over her body, a few more serious than others. The woman had to carry two immobile girls, one asleep the other paralyzed with exhaustion.

It was kinda cute, watching her trying to squirm only for Mako to chop her head.

The woman sighed, "Look, in my defense I came to this school expecting it to be... well, a school dear."

"And it is a school!" Mojang popped in, "Even though I sleep and forget everything, they still teach us stuff!"

"Yes, yer right, but I didn't really expect superhuman students, the whole school brimming with perverts, and borderline stripping demigods, y'know?" She dragged a hand down her face, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"So, what you're scared?!" With a hard frown, Ryuko forced herself up, walking right up to the woman. She was about 164 cm (5'5"), while Philia was 152 cm (Roughly five feet). The girl was not liking this one bit. She had a bit of a... abandonment problem. "If you wanted to go to a normal school, why didn't ya? You're just gonna run cause things gettin' a little rough?"

Philia sighed, "Ryuko-,"

"Little bitchass," the girl interupted.

"Its not up to yo-"

"Aww, baby pussy can't handle school?"

The woman held back a sigh, fighting the urge to smack a bitch. It was obvious Ryuko wasn't going to listen nor let her defend herself. It was like being on Twitter.

Philia turned on her heel, walking up to the parents. She bowed to them.

"I appreciate letting me stay here for the past few days," she thanked them, "But I'll have to take my leave. A grown woman like me can't be relying on a family."

"Oh no dear! Its no trouble at all!" Sukuyo, that's the mom by the way, assured her. "But I understand, if you ever need a place to return to, our door's always open."

"Sure am gonna miss that extra bonus for having another student," Barazo grumbled before his wife elbowed him, "I mean, yeah of course kiddo! Its been fun having you around! Don't be afraid to swing by!"

"Wait, you're leaving?" Mataro, the boy shouted.

"Philia!!!" Top Ten Mojo hugged the woman's legs, whining. "Don't go! I can't let my two besties fall apart just cause you're a wimp!" Philia held back a choke, "Besides, who am I gonna hang out with?"

"Hey! I thought I was your bestie?" Ryuko felt attacked.

"You are my bestie Ryuko," the girl perked up, hugging her as well, "You both are!"

Ryuko accepted Mako's words before turning to Philia who was already walking out the door. She felt a pain in her chest watching the woman she had befriended just up and leave. It hurt her. "So you're just gonna run off like a coward?"

"If ya don't like something then change it," the woman waved her off, "If not then quit complaining. Then again, weaklings in this school can't really change anything by themselves."

"Excuse me?! I'm the one who fought that bitch Satsuki! Don't call me weak!" Ryuko felt her temper rise. "What did you do? Hide in the corner crying and whimpering?"

"I'm not the one who failed her dead dad," Philia hummed before she quickly dropped her backpack and caught a fist. Mismatched eyes stared into cobalt blue burning with anger. Calm and collected, Philia deflected another punch before punching the wind outta the girl.

"I'm... sorry," the woman scratched her head, "I went out of line there... see ya." she picked up her bag and walked into the streets. Ryuko, kneeling down, could only stare at her friend's back as she disappeared behind a corner.

"Don't go..." her frown deepened before she shook her head and headed inside.

Philia hummed a tune to herself before she realized something.

"Where the hell am I supposed to stay for tonight?" She felt like a dumbass before it soon began raining. "Gee, thanks Karma."

~ ~ ~

In a dreamscape, Ryuko floated through a black void. Her eyes slowly fluttered open and she soon found herself in a wedding dress. It was an intricate design that only a master of its craft could have made it. Beautifuly white as the snow in the harsh winter... with an ugly splatter of blood staining it.

'Where... am I?' the girl looked around and found herself in Honnuji Academy, only to see that a mountain of corpses littering the courtyard. No stars, One stars, Two stars, and the bodies of Elite Four.

'What?! What happened?' Ryuko took a step back, terror filling her. 'Who could have killed the entire school?'

"Our beloved really went all out didn't he?" Ryuko turned to see Satsuki next to her. She also wore a wedding dress, masterfully crafted with blue accents. In her hands she held scissor blade like her own, slicked in blood.

Ryuko blinked and stared down at her hands. She held her scissor blade, only it was lilac purple rather than that chrome red. Blood also stained it. She didn't know what came over her, but she raised the blade to her face and licked the blood.

She savored the taste, that wonderous taste that she could only experience in her dreams. She wanted more, she wanted to gourge herself on this feeling.

A stomp shook her out of her dream within her dream. She turned to where Satsuki stared, towards the school's entrance. The stone walls were ruined, brought down by some unknown force.

Approaching from the rubble, a lone figure marched forward. With great antlers like that of a tree's branches, Ryuko shiver in delight as her beloved darling grew closer.

She had to bite her finger as her eyes met those burning hard eyes filled with such emotions. Rage, fatigue, fear, and sadness. These emotions made her wild, made her feel things she couldn't with anyone else.

This man, she wanted this man all to herself!

With jagged teeth as sharp as steel knives, the monster stomped a foot down before letting out a thunderous roar.

"Ara ara, let's go Ryuko," Satsuki felt the same too as she walked forward.

"Of course, sister." Ryuko let out a lofty breath before she followed closely behind.

The two sides charged at each other before Ryuko imagined a hand digging into her ribs.

~ ~ ~

"Wake up Ryuko! We gotta go! Go! Go!" Mario shouted as she ran around the house like a mad woman. Quicker than the two sisters, she dressed herself in her uniform just as Ryuko woke up.

"Hrmmmm, five more minutes..." the girl yawned only to get picked up and yeeted into the shower. She yelled as the cold water woke her right up.

"Come on Ryuko! This is a really important day! We cannot be late!" Mako began combing her teeth and brushing her hair with toothpaste.

"W-W-W-Whyyyyyy i-i-i-isssss i-i-it so i-import-t-t-tant?" Ryuko's teeth chattered as her body froze. She tried to wash herself as quickly as possible.

"Because!" Mako spat out some toothpaste, properly fixing her hair, "It'sssssssssss-"

NO LATE DAY

Ira Gammagori stood tall as ever upon a platform, overlooking the sea of nameless students. They all chatter and mumble amongst themselves, scheming, planning, strategizing ways to reach school. He was already pretty irked that he was letting Matoi get by in her pajamas, though that Mako girl had a point.

"Attention, No Stars of Honnouji Academy!!" the man's voice booms, "As you are all aware, today is NO LATE DAY!! That mean anyone and everyone who is tardy today WILL BE EXPELLED FROM HONNOUJI ACADEMY!!"

"Excuse me!" a voice yells. The Three Star and the duo turn and sees Philia struggling to get through the sea of students. She's shoved back and forth, before she growls whipping out a boat and rowing. She reached the platform and clambers onto it.

"Karma, all mighty!" The woman huffs, she straightens herself before facing Ira. Compared to her, this absolute mountain of a man who always seemed taller than everyone loomed over the tiny woman. "Yeah, yer with the student council yea?" she ignored the glare Ryuko gave her, though she waved at Mako.

"That is correct," the man crosses his arms. This had better be important.

"Right, so I was wondering if I could turn in my letter of transfer to you," she rummaged through her pocket before pulling out a paper. She handed it to the man, his massive hands three times the size of hers.

Gammagori's eyes quickly scan across the paper, recalling the woman had came to the office yesterday. He nodded at the paper, noting how everything was filled out correctly. Name, info, security check, etc.

"I see everything is filled out," Philia smiled, "But you must deliver this to the front office!"

"Wha-? How come? Can't you do this?"

"Any and all documents must be dealt with by the principal who will give me the paper to file out. Until then..." he folded the paper handing back to her, "YOU MUST ATTEND TO CLASS IN A TIMELY FASHION OR YOU WILL BE EXPELLED!!" he yelled her face.

"What?! This is malarky! Ya can't just expell me cause I'm late, eh!" the woman was about to smack a bitch.

"On another note, why aren't you dressed in proper attire?!" the man yelled again, seemed this was turning into a screaming match. "You must be in proper attire or you will be punished! You can't go to school like that!"

"Screw ya, I was supposed to be walkin' right on outta here, ya bloody squatch!" she looked at Ryuko, "And whaddabout 'er huh?"

"She is an exception! And I will make on for you since you are about to transfer! Do not insult my kindness!"

Philia sneered at the man before mumbling, "Pas fort."

"What was that?"

"Salut, comment ça va?" She greeted at Mako as the trio all gathered at the base of the stairs.

"Huh?"

"Nice of you to join us, wimp." Ruko grumbled. Philia paid no attention the the girl, keeping her gaze ahead. "Don't ignore me!"

"So what's all the hubbub?" The woman turned to Mako. Ryuko gawked before she reeled back a fist, prepping a hard punch.

"Today is No-Late Day! A day where all no star students sacrifice blood, sweat, and tears to make it on time to class!" Mako made wild gestures with her hands, "because if we are late, then we are forever expelled!!!"

"Sheesh, sounds like an exaggeration... actually I take that back."

Gammagori slammed a button activating the road to the school to transform in a deadly obstacle course filled to the brim with traps.

"Behold! Honnouji's academy great barrier!" He grinned as a horn blares, signaling the beginning.

"Wow! It looks like an amusement!" Mao awed as everyone began shoving forward.

"Why does this look familiar?" Philia wondered. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see Ryuko with a fist reared back.

"Hey asshole!" She slammed her fist into her, sending the woman flying towards the front. She yelled before she felled into a swarm of students climbing the stairs.

"Owie..." she groaned.

"Hey bitch! Quit blocking the damn way!" Someone yelled.

"Screw you!" Philia growled as she got up. Ryuko and Mako made it up to her, and she was about to say something until the stairs changed into a slope sending everyone down.

Everyone yelled as they hit the bottom, creating a pile stopping the flood of students. But not for long as people simply began clambering over each other. Ryuko had stabbed her scissor blade into the floor and held Mako by her shirt.

Philia on the other hand was barely holding onto one of the spike of the staircase.

"Merde!"

"There's another 999 of these! That's more than usual." Mako commented.

"What?!" Ryuko and Philia screeched, before they turned to each other and glared.

"Ow! Oh god! The pain! It hurts!" A girl cried out. A red eyed weirdo fell to the ground, writhing as she held arm.

"Oh crap! Are you okay?" Ryuko went to help the girl up. "Hey, you're in our class right?"

"Yeah, you're Maiko Ourge!" Mako peeked over Ryuko.

"Ogre?" Philia mumbled. "Oh crap, yer arm's messed up!"

"It's fine, I just hurt it in that trap just now," Ogre struggled to stand, feigning weakness.

"Hey, don't over do it!" Ryuko sent a glare to the woman, "this idiot must have fell on you."

"Wha-! Excuse me, ya fell on her too!" Philia didn't deny it, but certainly didn't agree.

"Hey! To make it up to her, we should take Maiko with us!" Mako suggested.

"No, I'd only slow you down, just leave me!" Maiko begged. Her acting was pretty good. Able to earn the pity of other and take advantage of the good hearted people.

"Okay, bye," Philia and Ryuko waved her off.

"Ryuko! Philia!" Mako shouted.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding, sheesh!" The woman snickered. She slung one of Maiko's arm around her. "Come on, we still got over 900 of these booby traps."

"Yeah, I can respect a girl who WON'T give up." The scissor girl glared at woman.

Mako giggled, "Hee hee, she said traps,"

~ ~ ~

The group of gal pals traversed through the obstacle course of death, doing their best to not die. They leaped over tiger pits, swinging spiked logs, and crossed over pits of boiling lava.

"So asshat, you wanna tell me why you're pussing out?" Ryuko tressed across the bridge, Philia behind her.

"I told ya it's none of yer business."

"Ah! My arm!" Maiko stopped in the middle of the bridge, the weight making it break.

"Watch out!" Ryuko grabbed Maiko and Mako, but Philia fell into the boiling oil. She leaped out of the pool, her ass on fire.

"YOWCH!!" Oh, my bad, boiling lava.

"Ugh! This would be so much easier with Senketsu!" Ryuko groaned as she leaped onto a giant skull.

"My butt's on fire!" Philia's pants had burnt off. She ran around before she tripped her hand grabbing into whatever was there.

Somewhere, there was distance sounds of funeral bells ringing for the loss of a father. A boy and his dog cried, but they continued their mission.

The three continue their trek, dodging more traps, as Maiko seemingly triggered each and every one in their path.

"I swear yer doing this on purpose!" Philia leaps, rolls, and angles her body barely dodging buzz saws like it was Hollow Knight.

"I swear I'm not!" Oruge cries as a swinging blade comes right at her. The girl's ass is yanked down to the ground, the blade nearly killing Philia.

"Watch it!" Who made these traps?!

Giant rolling boulders, buzz saws, alligator pits, flame throwers, more buzz saws, dart traps, false pathways, more buzzsaws. Everything was thrown at them, with the new girl or Mako triggering seemingly everything and either Ryuko or Philia had to deal with it.

The four gals made it to a tower, the time 8:30 am. Only thirty more minutes left until the bell rang.

"Ohhhhh! I don't wanna be expelled! I don't wanna!" Mako groaned, nearly falling off the tower.

"Bell hasn't rang yet, so there's no reason to give up." Philia held the girl's shirt. She was a mess, her clothes were burnt, sliced or torn. Her face has bruises, and scrapes, and her hair was now horribly cut to shoulder length.

Ryuko wasn't looking too good either. She had her fair share of cuts, bruises, and burns. But she wasn't as bad as Philia.

She looked to her left and saw several students kneeling. One of them was calling out names.

"Hey, Maiko, what's up with them?" She pointed at them.

"Oh, that's a pseudo-classroom. Students who have given up trying to reach the school pretend to take attendance. They can't handle the thought of being expelled and kicked out of their homes."

"That's really sad."

"It's not sad, it's pathetic." Philia said. She stared down the group of kids, a cold and uncaring look in her eyes.

"The hells your problem?" She had just about had it with this woman. "You can't spit on someone trying their damnedest."

"I don't care for people who give up before the finish line. If the bell had rang I'd understand, but to give up halfway through?" She huffed, turning to the school. "I don't pity people like them. Even if I was at the beginning of the start, I'd still give my damn hardest!"

The three girls looked at the woman in wonder. They had assumed she was some lazy coward, but she seemed really determined.

Somewhere, distance sounds of funeral music played for the loss of a son. A dog cried for his master, but he continued his mission.

"Hm, that's rich coming from you." Ryuko huffed, "You barely started this semester and you already wanna leave!"

"That's different." Philia pointed to the school, "We have a goal set before us. And we're gonna finish this!"

A small series of booms caught the girls attention. They turned to see a school bus slowly trending through the road.

"Hey! That's a school bus the One Stars get to use!" A landmine exploded, but the bus still pushed forward. "Ah, landmines."

"It's armored plated, it can take it."

"Ohhh! One Stars have it so easy! I wanna ride the bus! I wanna, I wanna!" Mako cried before she was picked up.

"Then let's go!" Philia threw the girl as the rushed to the bus. They tricked the bus into stopping with Maiko.

"Hey! No Star, get the hell off the road-" a guitar case shattered the boy's teeth. Ryuko sneered at the dude, spitting on him.

"Alright chuckleheads," Philia and Ryuko cracked their knuckles, "this is your stop."

The bus zoomed forward, the two girls tossing the One Stars out like trash. Philia sat in the back, the bus shaking with every landmine they cleared.

She saw a mother breastfeeding her baby. She smiled and gave a wave. The woman smiled back before she pulled out a radio phone.

"Hi, I got a school bus hijacked by a couple of No Stars." The smile never left her face.

"Oh... uh, guys maybe we wanna step on it?" The woman looked around to see people looking down on them from their homes. Like a lot of people.

"Why's that?"

"Okay, we'll proceed with extreme prejudice." The mother then reached into her pocket dimension that was her boobs. She whipped out a tommy gun, before blasting.

"Fuck!" The whole town began firing on the bus. The 'bullet proof' windows shattering as the town slowly ate away at the armor plating.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" The girls hauled ass, dodging gunfire like the beaches of Normandy. "What do we do?!"

"We fight back with a counterattack!" Maiko slammed a button and a platform rose up.

"Whoa?!" Mako held onto a turret as bullets began firing out. She didn't really have control as the platform span around, bullets firing wildly.

"Mako, get down from there!" Ryuko yelled calmly.

"Get down," Philia growled before she took control. She gave a hard look at everything before she began firing.

"YAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Bullets spat out with experienced aim. The woman shot at larger groups or anyone with a big gun. The barrel glowed hot as shells spilled out and filled the bus' floor.

"RPG!!" Philia looked to see an elderly woman aim a rocket launcher at them. With a calm smile she fired.

The scarfed woman spat to the side before turning the turret and fired at the rocket. It exploded quite near them, but they managed to zoom through the smoke.

"Yeah baby!" A sniper shot nearly took her head off, making her duck. "Bring us down! Bring us down!"

The platform lowered but not before another sniper shot hit the turret. It malfunctioned, bullets spraying everywhere in the bus!

The roof fell off, leaving the girls exposed. Two rockets flew at them, sending the bus flying.

"YAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Ryuko screamed.

"Oh My God!!" Maiko cried.

"Wheee!!!" Mako cheered.

"They're in the trees?!?" Philia suffered from PTSD.

The bus crashed onto the ground, metal frame screeching as they slid across the ground. The sides grinded away from the entrance before they were thrown.

"Ugh, huh? Guys look! We made it!" Ryuko smiled as the school was just in front of them.

"And we still have 15 minutes until the bell rings! We can still make it!"

Ryuko turned to Maiko, a smile on her face. "We couldn't have done it without you Maiko! You're totally rad!"

"What am I? A chopped appendix?" Philia groaned, her face in a pile of dirt.

"Ah shucks, I didn't do anything at all!" The girl blushed, "but I'm happy you still think so."

Ryuko turned to Philia, her face mad before she let out a sigh. She held a hand out and held the shorter woman up.

"I guess you helped too," the girl cleared her throat. "I appreciate you sticking with us till the end, so... Look if you still wanna leave I won't stop you. I'll respect your decision, but I-, maybe we can keep in touch?" The girl held her head down, trying to hide her blush.

Philia blinked in surprise. She didn't expect Ryuko to let her be. She seemed like the kinda girl that reacted first and thought later. A type that didn't give up unless you beat her into the ground.

The shorter woman smiled underneath her scarf before she wrapped an arm around the girl.

"Oh! I'll miss you too even if it's only been two days!" Philia laughed, giving a noogie to the girl.

"Hey! Stop messing with my hair!" She tried to push off the woman, but when was she so strong?!

"Yay! We're best friends again!" Mako wrapped the two in a group hug. "And with a new gal pal!"

A barking was heard and the girls looked to see Senketsu riding on Guts. The little pug galloping through the courtyard.

"Hey, Ryuko look! Guts has your uniform!" Mako pointed out.

"Why'd Guts' bring it? Sheesh Mako, your dad has the craziest ideas." Ryuko laughed.

"Owie! The pain! It's unbearable!" Maiko held her arm as she fell to the ground. She latched onto whatever she could grab blindly. That being Ryuko's pants.

She yanked them down, revealing that bootylicious behind that made Guts spew blood from his nose. He slid in his own blood, unable to control his speed.

"Watch out, you crazy mutt!" Senketsu yelled as Guts slid right past the three. Only for a foot to kick the dog and snatch the Kamui.

"Guts!" Mako and Philia rushed to the dog. They held his body as the life from his eyes faded. Funeral music played as the two girls cried.

"What the-? Maiko what the hell was that for?!" Ryuko turned to the girl who held Senketsu. She held her head down with a wicked smile before she let out a laugh.

"Fool! You thought I was on your side?" The girl struck a jojo pose, "I've been waiting for ages for you to let your guard down! The injured no-star classmate identity was a fake! My true identity is..."

Title words slammed onto the girl, nearly knocking her down.

"MAIKO OGURE!! HEAD OF TRAP DEVELOPMENT!!"

"Trap development, huh?" Ryuko said. Feelings of betrayal resurfaced.

"Yes, a shadowy figure hiding within the commoners of the No-Stars! Blah, blah, blah!" The girl went on,  blabbering on about usurping Satsuki and taking over Hono City or something.

"So, she works with the school. That's bad, right?" Philia whispered.

"Yeah, I think so." Mako whispered back. Guts was fine, he sat on her head. "She did spring every trap we went through."

"And she knew how to drive the bus and that there was turret."

"And her arm wasn't broke at all!"

"Would you two shut up!" Maiko growled as she put on Senketsu and immediately transformed. It was awkward, looking wonky, but seemed to work.

"What the-?! On the first try?" Ryuko gaped.

"Now, who to try my power on?" Maiko rolled her shoulder as she walked towards the trio. "I know, the weak obviously!" She pulled back a fist and threw it towards them.

"Watch out!" Philia stood in front of Mako, ready to take the punch. Only it never came. The three turn to see Maiko struggling to move, she grunted and groaned, trying her damnest to even move an inch.

Philia leaned over to Ryuko, covering her mouth despite wearing a damn scarf. "Heya, uh, what's going on?"

"I, uh-" Ryuko turned to Senketsu, noting his expression.

"Hurry! I... can't... hold her for... long!" he grunted, his eye squinting.

Ryuko understood and nodded before she began cracking her knuckles. An ominus aura grew behind her as Maiko realized her situation. She panicked struggling even more as she pleaded for her life. But her begging fell deaf before the Kanto Vagabond.

"Please! Let me go! You'll never see me again, I swear! I'll give you back your Kamui!" the girl cried as Ryuko approached the girl. She took a stomp forward, reeling back her fist as she threw it with all the feminine rage a teenage girl going through puberty could muster.

"Omae wa mou shinderu," Ryuko said before her fist made contact with Maiko's face.

Philia and Mako watched as Ryuko gave the girl the beating of her life. The two gals wincing and flinching as Maiko caught Ryuko's hands.

With her face.

Ryuko spat on the girl, Senketsu in her hands neatly folded and cleaned. She pressed her foot on the girl's head, her face deep in the ground. "If I ever catch you pulling shit like this imma send you straight to Jesus!" she growled.

"Come on Ryuko! We still have ten minutes until the bell rings!" Mako dragged Ryuko

"Alrighty then, lets head out-" Philia smashed her face into a something, falling on her ass. She cursed under her breath, holding her nose. Suddenly a wall painted as the school courtyard fell, revealing they were nowhere near the school.

"What the-?"

"Ha ha! You fool!!!!!" Maiko yanked her head out of the ground, her face all jacked up. Even so, she was still laughing as if she'd won.

"This is my final trap! I call it, Return to the beginning!" Suddenly the ground began moving as painted walls fell revealing the group were on a moving platform.

"Good luck getting to class now, girls." Maiko laughed. "Getting expelled won't look nice your permanent record."

"Permanent record?!" Philia exclaimed, panic in her voice.

"But what about you? Won't you get expelled too?" Ryuko countered.

"Not if I'm dead," Maiko stood on a steel beam on the edge of the platform, a smirk on her face. Everyone tensed as she scooted a bit further.

"As long as you guys are late, I don't mind giving my life. Especially if it affects you, Philia." Maiko turned on her heel and leaped off the platform.

"FOR HONNOJI ACADEMY!!!" She screamed as her body went dropped through air. The trio rushed to the edge and saw the girl's body falling further and further. It seemed these people really had a loyalty to this school.

"Just kidding~!" A parachute popped out of the girl, catching her as she floated off.

"I hate this school." Philia grumbled.

The platform shook as it ran off its path, skidding across the ground. The girls held on for dear life as they slowed to a stop. Well, more like crashed.

"What the?! This is nowhere near the beginning!" Ryuko gawked as the were at the docks of the island.

"How the hell are we gonna get to class?! We only have one minute until the bell rings!" Dread began filling Philia. Oh no, if she was expelled then they would be able to find her!

"Hey, look! It's a cable car that only the super rich can use!" Mako pointed. The Philia and Ryuko turned to each other before grinning.

"Hey! You can't be here-!" With a couple of broken teeth, the One Star operated the cable car. Ryuko looming over him with her scissor blade.

The cable's mechanism span full speed, but Ryuko held the car in place. "Come on! Hurry it up!"

"Hold on! We gotta leave something for the fare!" Mako reached into the infinite space of her boobs. She pulled out her bento box and left one of her moms mystery meat.

"Come on, Mango! We gotta go!" Philip picked up Mako and tossed her into the car. The girl herself barely hopped on as the car zoomed off.

"Only thirty seconds! We won't have time once we stop!" Mako held on for dear life, despite expulsion looming over her she still enjoyed her ride.

"Then we aren't gonna stop! Full steam ahead!" Ryuko kicked the car's door open, and readied her blade. At the right time, she swung her sword releasing the cable car.

The car shook and flew across the skies. The car trembled and then began tilting, spinning, the girls holding on for dear life.

"I... can't hold... on!" Philia grit her teeth as she hands began slipping.

"Hold on! We're almost there!" Ryuko saw Mako lose her grip, but she managed to snatch her. She held her sword in her teeth, and turned to Philia only for her to let go.

"Tabernak!!!" The girl yelled as she fell off.

"PHILIA!!!" Ryuko and Mako yelled as the car crashed into the school. All the students probably died as the duo crashed in.

Ryuko as fast as she could grabbed a desk and slammed it down. She raised her hand and yelled.

"Can I be excused?!" She grit her teeth, pissed she had to waste time. Philia could have been gravely hurt! Or worse!

The teacher turned to the car, noting only Mankanshoku came stumbling out. He turned back to Ryuko, wondering where the other gal is.

"And where's the other one?" He asked, though he seemed to already know.

"She's on her way! Just give her a couple of seconds! I-"

The bell finally rang, signaling that any poor unfortunate soul not in class were now tardy. Which meant expulsion.

"CAN I BE EXCUSED?!" Ryuko growled.

"... sure." And with that Ryuko leaped out the massive hole she made. She transformed her uniform as she fell, hoping she could find her friend.

~ ~ ~

Speaking of friends, Philia was currently in a crater in the school's courtyard. So close and yet so far.

"... ahhhhhh..." somehow the woman had survived the fall, though that didn't mean she was okay.

Wiping some blood off her mouth, Philia shakily pulled herself out the ground. Her bones creaked and cracked as she just fell into her face. A vague person shape hole was left where she fell.

"PHILIA!!!" The girl groaned and picked her head to see Ryuko zooming over to her. The blue blur skid to a stop, the air and dust whooshing past them.

"Shit!" Ryuko saw how badly the girl looked.  The right leg wasn't supposed to point that way, right? And that shoulder looked a bit too far out.

"Crap! Philia, are you okay?!" She hesitated to touch the girl, she didn't want to hurt her worse.

"Oh... yeah... perfectly fine..." Philia said with incredible sincerity. Just kidding, that was sarcasm.

The girl tried to get up, only for a terrible crack to snap.

"AGH!! Putain de bórdel de merde!!" The girl screamed, that funny accent hitting Ryuko's ear.

"We gotta get you to the infirmary!" Ryuko picked up the girl in her arms, a bridal carry, ignoring the what was obviously curse in what she presumed French. She was so small.

"Fuck that! Just get me to the councilor's office! Gotta turn this shit in." She pulled out a set of paper that were crumpled and crushed, but still legible.

"What, but you're hurt! I ain't-"

"Listen Matoi Ryuko! I got a lotta crap on me, and I ain't looking for attention. Just... take me to the front office..."

Ryuko bit her lip before relenting. Booking it, she tried to hold her friend as gently as she could. No way in hell would she be caught dead being carried like this. She looked to Philia to see if she cared, but she seemed to be trying to pop her shoulder back into place.

As the two came to the office they noted Gammagori standing at the office. Satsuki was also there, standing with her head high.

"Oh great,"

"Fauche C. Philia," Gammagori announced, "You are late by ten minutes and forty two seconds! As a result of this tardy, you are hereby expelled from Honnoji Academy!"

"Shame, though," Inumuta, the boy with the high collar, "Matoi here only had a couple seconds before she'd be late too."

"Here, put me down here," Ryuko gently put the shorter girl down. Shaking a bit, Philia walked up to Satsuki. The Elite Four went to step in, but Satsuki walked pass them.

"Here," The girl gave her the papers. Satsuki couldn't see the girl's mouth, but she could see a frown. Her eyes told her everything.

"These are worthless now," Satsuki took them anyway and tore them. "You are no longer a student here at this academy, though it seems you didn't wish to remain here. Rather cowardly." There was a ghost of a smile on the taller girl's lips.

Philia let out a raspy sigh. Wasn't it reasonable to leave a life threatening situation if you could? Why everybody gotta give her shit?

"Aww, shorty couldn't handle Japanese schools? Maybe you should go back to Canada, hm?" Nonon smug face poked around Satsuki.

"Shut up ya strawberry short cake!" Philia shouted.

"You're shorter than me, pipsqueak!" Nonon retorted.

"That's cause ya got heels on!" Philia returned.

"Fine, fine, I surrender. Just, please calm yourself. I won't insult you anymore," The Elite Four and Satsuki raised a brow. Nonon would never back down from a fight.

"Even I wouldn't stoop that low." she added.

"Why I oughta!" Ryuko held back Philia who lunged.

"Enough!" Satsuki slammed her sword. "You will leave the premise immediately or you will be removed!" Gammagori slid up to the girls, ready to pick them up.

"Now hold on a second! I'm sure we can-"

"There is no excuse for tardiness!" Gammagori yelled, "You are a disgrace to this academy and what it stands for!" He picked up the girl and balled her up. He reared his arm back as if he was getting to throw a baseball.

"Hey! Let her go asshole!" Ryuko pulled out her scissor blade.

"Putain de merde!" Philia kicked the man in the head, but it did nothing as if he was a statue.

"Know that we will ensure that this expulsion will go on your permenant record, Fauche C. Philia." Satsuki commented.

Philia stopped struggling before jerking her head to the president of the student council.

"How the hell do you know my name." She asked in her tongue.

"The same way we know you don't exist, Fauche." Satsuki responded back in French. She smirked a little when the girl narrowed her eyes.

Not fooling around anymore, yanked on one of Gammagori's elongated earlobes making him drop her. She landed on her feet, but winced.

"I'm sure the IRS would appreciate it if we let them know that we have the location of a fugitive. Even more so if we were to capture you."

Ryuko looked back and forth between eyebrows and Philia. They were talking in frenchy and if looks could kill Satsuki would be a pile of ash.

"Uh, the hell's the IRS? And what's she talking about?" She asked. Was Philia involved with some kinda yakuza? Well, she was foreign, so maybe a mob from Canada?

'Dis ho,' Philia took a deep breath, popping her neck as she thought about the States. Yer school system's crap and you need insurance or you die. But yer off by a couple of dollars and suddenly a SWAT team is heading your way with an Apache helicopter.

"She didn't tell you? I suppose I wouldn't either if I was in her predicament." Sayageyama snickered.

"The Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS, is a department of the United States responsible for collecting tax revenue." Inumuta explained, "Although they know the amount you owe, it is up to its citizens to calculate their own figures. If you are incorrect they come after you."

"Sounds like a shitty system," Ryuko commented. So Philia's in debt. "So she owes some money, about how much does she owe? Can't be that bad-"

"About 12.57 million US dollars." Inumuta cut in. Everyone winced as Ryuko and Philia choked. Even Satsuki shivered. If there was one thing she could be grateful for it was that her monster of a mother taught her how to commit tax evasion.

Truly, the IRS was an even greater monster than Ragyo.

"Fauche C. Philia owes 12, 579, 842 dollars." Inumuta continued.

Ryuko grabbed Philia and began shaking her. "HOW THE HELL DO YOU OWE 12 MILLION?!?" She yelled.

"And 34 cents," Philia mumbled. "It was an honest mistake! How the hell was I supposed to know I marked myself as a dependent? And then the accountant I hired fucks up my file and-, agh!!!"

The girl fell to the floor, dread and sorrow surrounding her. She spent months on the run constantly just to lose these money grubbing bastards!

'Why couldn't I have been an abused and neglected character?!' She screamed internally. 'Oh wait, that's right. I'm an orphan.'

Philia sighed and picked herself up. She dusted her pants off before opening her arms. "Okay, whaddaya want?"

Satsuki perked a brow, "I beg your pardon?" She hid a smile. She knew what the girl was talking about.

Philia growled, she knew what she was talking about. "I said whaddaya want? Ya deaf or something, cause I doubt ya brought all this shit up just to crap on me. So either ya want something or yer just yanking my chain."

She strangled the air in front of her. "Cause so help me if it's the latter. Cause if it's is then imma show you why the why we have so many school shoo-"

"Are you trying to bribe me, Fauche?" Satsuki lowered herself as if she was about to sit when several One Star students came outta no where and made a chair for her.

"Are you trying to black mail me?" Philia returned. "I'd kick yer ass if it meant shutting yer mouth close."

"Are you threatening Lady Satsuki?!" Gammagori growled.

"I think you need to learn your place pig!" Nonon sneered.

"No one threatens Lady Satsuki and gets away with their lives." Sanageyama pulled out his shinai.

"Prepare to die, peasant." Inumuta glared.

"Stay back Philia," Ryuko stepped in, her hands ready on her Sekki Teko. "Be ready to run!"

"Like hell I'm running!" The girl pulled out a glock-, I mean cracked her fists.

Red and purple stood against white and their army of gray. The Elite Four we're armed and ready with the One Stars ready to jump at the signal. Ryuko and Philia were on guard, ready to smack a bitch if it came to it.

"So you think you can 'kick my ass'?" Satsuki asked. She raised a hand a immediately everyone slid back into position. A butler was there—for some reason— serving tea to the Lady. She took a sip of her cup, pinky out because she was that fancy.

"Well?" She looked at the girl, eyebrow perked. "Answer me."

"I'm not above beating anyone in a fair fight." Philia raised her hands. "These hands are rated E for everyone."

"Is that so?" Satsuki placed her teacup on a plate before handing it to her butler.

CLICK!

With an over dramatic heel click, Satsuki was suddenly standing over Philia, her presence looming over the very short girl. Ryuko tried to step in between them, but the Elite Four and One Stars barred her.

"What the-? Hey, lemme through!" She reached for her scissor blade.

"Don't you have class to attend to, Matoi Ryuko?" Gammagori asked, arms crossed.

"Do not fret, Matoi. I won't harm, Fauche." Satsuki frowned down on the girl who shot a bird back at her. Satsuki hid her amusement, such a spiteful attitude.

"You can kick my ass? Then I have a proposition for you, Fauche C. Philia."

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

"If you can defeat one of my Elite Four in a one on one, then I will deal with your debt problem."

"Wait, ye'll pay off my debt?" Philia smiled in joy only to get bonked on the head. "Ow! What the hell?"

"Don't be a fool!" Satsuki yelled, "The IRS is no joke. And you must own up to your own mistakes!"

"Okay, okay, sheesh. So then whaddaya offering?" The girl rubbed a smoking bump on her head.

"We'll void this tardy and wipe it from your record. Further more, we'll give the IRS a false lead of your whereabouts." Kitkat made her way back to her spot and sat down, One Stars dashing in to make her a seat. And I don't blame them, haha.

"That is if your win."

"And if I lose?"

"I'm sure you don't want to find out."

Philia imagination began brewing up ideas as to what the student council president had should she fail. Torture, servitude, execution, public humiliations? She could end up like that one kid that got crucified on the front of the school? Or maybe she'll have her become a personal slave?

To be honest that last one doesn't sound so bad.

'Wait those aren't my thoughts!' Shut up, idiot. Lemme dream.

"Pfft, I guess everything I can think of can't be compared to what the IRS will do." Philia scratched her head pondering her options. She looked at the four bozos that stuck to eyebrows' side like guards dogs.

"Fine, whadda I have to lose."

Satsuki smiled.

"Then it's settled, you'll have three days time-"

"Nah ah ah! We gotta shake on it!" Philia made a god awful inhuman noise before spitting on her hand. She offered it to Satsuki who stared at her like she was some abomination.

"Come on, I know ya want me to fight one of yer dogs if ya went outta yer way to do all this. But where I come from, we shake on it or it don't count."

Satsuki could see the grin on Philia's face despite being underneath her scarf. She closed her eyes imaging herself strangling the girl with the scarf.

When she returned back to reality she took the hand, never breaking face as Philia shook the hand with vigor.

"Ah! Maybe ya ain't so bad KitKat! Get that stick outta her ass and we'd get along just fine!" Philia laughed.

"I was going to let you choose your opponent and give you three days to prepare, but you will be fighting tomorrow." The young lady sneered as she pulled her hand away. One of the Elite Four came up and wiped her hand.

"O-oh, well that's fine, I'll fight anyone-"

"You're opponent will be Ira Gammagori. You will meet in the courtyard."

"Ah, and who's Gammagori?" Philia smiled weakly as she suddenly felt a presence behind her. Trembling with fear, she cranes her head up to see the giant of a man staring down at him like he was a piece of trash.

"You dare rub your disgusting slimy disease ridden spit on our fine Lady?!" He screamed, practically steaming with rage.

"Ah hah ha, uh, no hard feelings?" Philia could only shrink as the man reeled back a fist.

~ ~ ~

"Welp, glad I got all this paper work done." Mikisugi smiled as he finished signed off on a paper. He had to ask for repairs for his class room. Honestly, kids.

He then perked his head up. Was it him or did he hear screaming?

"-AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

BOOM!!

Coming from the hole in his class room, Philia came flying in before smashing to the the desk Mikisugi was working in. The same desk that held all of the paperwork he had spent hours signing and working through.

"I hate my job..."

Total words: 7,478

That's right! Another chapter just after the Warhammer pilot? Look at me! Aha ha, I am tired.

But it looks like we're getting a fight! A normalish human versus Ira Gammagori! An eight foot giant with the power of a Three Star Goku uniform! How will Philia prevail?