Hiro ran into the locker room, not caring that the shower was running. Just one of the guys running late like I am. he thought. After all, the girl's shower time ran out five minutes ago. Surely none of them were taking an extra-long shower?

He had been half a lap behind in gym class, so he was about ten minutes behind the other guys getting back from the spin-grav park that the school owned. Most of the guys would get a shower after lunch, though, so they could be first in line.

Hiro got undressed, grabbed his towel and soap and ran into the showers. The other person was humming so he looked up, only to notice it was a girl. Not just any girl, though, but a soapy Sugara. "Sugara-chan?" he asked, suprised. She shrieked and slapped him.

(Opening theme song)

In the middle of a hallway leading to the cafeteria Lucia R. Braun laid her buttocks against a set of locker as she leaned foward. Her eyes were predatory as she glanced from both side to side as to assure herself that no one was coming. From this preliminary scan Braun did not seem to see any 'prey' that were wandering. With that out of the way Lucia twirled around to face the lockers she was resting against. Bending down she began to enter the code necessary for the bottom most locker to open.

Click.

Lucia stared into the locker and saw that, yes, Herr Kommissar was proudly guarding one of her many riding crops. Saluting to the Locker Lucia R. Braun began to speak, "Ah gud! I zank sie Kommisar for keepink mein arsenal safe. Ja keepen up ze job und I zhinking I shall presenten zee with und present!" After stopping the firm salute Lucia rummaged through her locker to pull out a riding crop. Quickly Lucia stood up right and slammed her locker shut. She took a few moments to bend her riding crop while a grin slowly emerged on her face. As the crop was deemed appropriate Lucia dramatically pointed down the hallway with it.

"Now" Lucia proclaimed, "Ist time for ze eatink." With that she began marching down the hallway, her heels making a distinctive clinking with each step, while waving her riding crop from side to side.

"Singing vill come later vhen I have un adorink crowd." she mused to herself.

Sugara had run out of the shower to get dressed and by the time Hiro had finished showering she was almost done brushing her hair. "What were you thinking, walking in on me like that?" she asked a towel-wrapped Hiro.

"It was five minutes after the girl's shower time had ended", he responded. "I thought it was another guy."

"Oh, I'm sorry." she apologized, "I was washing my hair for the fifth time. I guess I lost track of time." she reached up to the burst capillaries on Hiro's face that were in the perfect shape of her hand and a yellow glow left her palm, healing him. "What if buy you lunch to apologize? Come on." she grabbed his hand and started to drag him towards the door.

"Hey, wait." he said, trying to pull away from her.

"What? You don't want to eat with me?"

"No, I just need to get dressed first."

"Oh," she said, "in that case I'll go wait in the hallway."

Five minutes later they sat down at their table in the cafeteria, though their meal consisted of the only food that was left, tempura and rice balls.

Luna took a hearty sip of her tea as she sat at her table in the cafetaria. Just like most days, she was accompanied by her adoring fans from the lower grades, who nervously ate along with her. She herself didn't really care about them much however.

"Aaah, Luna-sama is so elegant as usual..."

"Just as expected from a princess..."

Luna was used to whispers and comments like that. She didn't think of herself as anyone special however. She was merely acting the way she had been raised since she was little.

"Please excuse me," Luna said as she rose from her seat. She had finished her lunch earlier than everyone else in the table.

As she walked towards the doors of the cafetaria, she passed by the table where Hiro and Sugara sat. And without any warning, a gust of gentle wind blew out of nowhere, lifting Luna's already terribly short skirt and revealing her white panties to the two. Blushing slightly, Luna quickly held her skirt down and continued her walk, pretending that nothing had happened.

What was that all about?

@TheUnknowable

Opening the doors to the cafeteria Lucia R. Braun spotted an older peer of hers, that "Princess" Luna Albeircht, who happened to heading out of the cafeteria. Perhaps this Luna was attempting to hide for she knew that in her heart of hearts that she was going to be upstaged by the wonder that was Lucia R. Braun. Sneering at Luna, there was a quick crack of the riding crop against a nearby wall as Lucia began staring her up and down.

"Vell, vell, vell..." Lucia R. Braun began before leaning forward and waggling one of her free index finger. "If isn't zee Preeencess..." With a scowl on her face Lucia R. Braun did a mock curtsey while shaking her head. With a twinkling glimmer of hate in her eye, Braun simply pointed at the cafeteria.

"Vatchen how un real diva, nein un Empress does it." declared Lucia as she sensually swayed into the cafeteria. Dramatically she pointed up with her riding crop, paying very little attention to how any of the other potential students would react.

After all it was showtime. And so Lucia R. Braun began to sing, while deliberately choosing to not bring any outside focus or enhancement yet.

"I'm not like most girls/
Who only take just take what they're given"

Sang Braun as she dramatically stepped on the side of a cafeteria bench-seat and stole a rice-ball jelly donut from some poor sap. She intensely leaned her body back as she took a bite from the item, before tossing it. With a mixture of swaying and a modicum of dancing she continued on, traversing the cafeteria with her imposed melody.

"Like a plastic little princess/
Lucky for me/
I'm not like those girls/
Who only take it all for granted"

@HammermanHiro-kun covered his eyes upon seeing something he shouldn't. After all, he wasn't a pervert.

"You looked, didn't you!" said Sugara-chan. "You wanted to see Luna-chan's panties."

"No", he quickly replied, uncovering his eyes. "It was an accident." He looked around, and saw that at the next table was Kenny, a delinquent with a shaved head, arrow-shaped tattoos, and an aerokinesis implant. "I bet Kenny did it." Kenny high fived one of his friends, oblivious to the fact that he was caught.

@PleekLucia walked in, and began addressing Luna. "Hey, it's Lucia." he said, trying to change the subject. "And she's got a riding crop for some reason. You know, I don't even think she's on the Equestrian team. I wonder why she carries it?"

"Maybe it's a fetish." responded Sugara.

"A fetish?" he knew he had heard the word in a tv program, but couldn't remember the meaning of it.

"Yeah, you know," she explained, "it's an English word meaning 'an object of religious or supernatural significance'."

"Well," he responded, thinking over the possibility. "I suppose it could be used for some sort of ritual flogging, but I've never heard of such a religion on the asteroid. Maybe I'll ask her about it later."

Luna was about to leave the cafetaria when she heard the comment from Hiro, saying that some guy named Kenny was responsible. She looked where Kenny was sitting and saw him high-fiving his friends there.

Yep, he was clearly responsible.

In anger, Luna walked towards his table and slapped him right on his cheeks without saying anything, giving only an angry glare. After that, she immediately walked away, not caring about the pervert's reaction to her actions. He was simply not worth of her time.

And then another weirdo arrived, standing on her way out of the cafetaria. She greeted her in quite the haughty manner before proceeding to sing something about her being a "plastic princess". Well, she didn't care about that either, so she left he cafetaria without bothering to respond to her.

@TheUnknowable@Pleek

Lucia R. Braun stood and extended out her arms ready to bask in the limelight and all the cheering that was sure to happen. However after a few moments it was obvious that no one was cheering for her performance. Brushing a bit of her hair to the side she peered around the room to make absolutely certain that, no one was paying attention to her.

That was indeed the case.

And to make matters worse, students such as Luna were leaving the area. There was only one way to respond to this situation. Lucia R. Braun had to handle this in a very careful matter.

"ACK!" shrieked out Lucia R. Braun as she began jumping up and down and stomping her heels hard on the ground. "Sie will payen zee attention to me! Sie will payen zee attention to me! Sie will payen zee attention to me!" Of course jumping around and fuming angrily like this in heels wasn't necessarily the best idea. And this would reveal itself to be the case as Braun slipped and slammed down onto the ground.

@TheUnknowable @Hammerman

The next morning Hiro and Sugara arrived at the docks with their belongings. Hiro had one bag with included a few technical devices and just enough clothing for the journey. Sugara had three large suitcases filled with an entire wardrobe of clothes. It was quite lucky that Hiro was below the mass limit on his bags, then, as he had to bring one of Sugara's large cases aboard as his own, even though their was something frilly poking out of it.

The teacher, Professor McDonald, was already aboard, and helped them load their baggage into the cargo hold. "I'll pilot us up to the ship once everyone is here." he told them as they sat down in the front row and buckled in with a five-point harness.

Luna arrived just before Hiro and Sugata. She carried with her one large suitcase filled with her clothes. Oddly enough, after looking at all her clothes the night before when she was packing, they were all too skimpy for her liking. Combined with her skimpy school uniform, that meant she really didn't have anything not skimpy to wear.

She would have a talk with her maids when she returned home.

When Hiro arrived in front of their ship, Luna was already up there walking up stairs to go inside, carrying her luggage with her. And since the princess was wearing her absurdly short uniform skirt (Luna was pretty sure it actually failed to cover her underwear all the way even if she stood still, showing a hint of the fabric a little), Hiro got a good view of her yellow-striped panties.

Once inside, Luna took her seat, which just happened to be beside Hiro's. Once again, thanks to her ridiculously short skirt, her smooth and white thighs were visible to Hiro. And with any movements of her legs, it teased him with the sight of her undergarments once again.