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"Where is everyone?"

Standing in his classroom, Aiden found it strange that he was the only one there. Pulling out his phone, he dialed Mina's number.

"Yo Mina, where is everyone?"

"*Yawn...* What are you talking about?" She answered sheepishly.

"Why am I the only one at school?! And why didn't you wake me up? I thought you left me behind!"

"Mmm~ *Yawn* We got a day off silly." She replied still sounding sleepy

"Day off?"

"Mmm... Yeah, if you came to school yesterday you would have been told."

"Then why didn't you text me?"

"You ditched me yesterday, this is my revenge." She said sounding more awake.

'How petty!'

"*Sigh* Mina, I think I'll have to re-evaluate our friendship." He said in a sorrowful voice.

"Eh?!"

"As unfortunate as it is, real friends don't ditch others. I'm afraid I may have to drop your rank from bestfriend to casual friend."

"WHAT!! Y-You can't do that!"

"Its already done Ashido-san." He said in a grieving voice.

Hearing him refer to her by her last name, Mina felt like she was hit by a bolt of lightning.

"Wait Aiden! Lets talk this throu-

"Sorry Ashido-san, I've got to go find myself a new bestfriend, I'll talk to you at school like casual friends should."

WAIT AIDE-

*CLICK*

Feeling like her soul had left her body, Mina sat on her bed in shock.

"H-He hung up on me..."

Remembering that he had mentioned that he was at school, a light bulb appeared above her head as she went to grab some clothes.

---

-Classroom 1-A-

'That'll teach her to ditch me.'

Aiden didn't really mean anything he said to her, but in his mind he was at the top of the pecking order. Being at the top meant that he couldn't tolerate showing weakness to those below him. Even though he and Mina were friends, he had to make sure she understood who the dominant one in their relationship was. Thus he punished her by denying her the one thing she craves from him: Her bestfriend status.

[A/n: And he called her reason petty!]

With nothing else to do for the day, he decided to check on the support department. If anyone was going to in school on an off day it would definitely be Mei.

---

Walking into the workshop, he saw the pink haired Mei in her usual spot.

"Yo." He called out.

Removing her welding goggles, she was surprised to see another student besides her at school. It was only after she recognized who the figure was that a smile spread across her face.

"AIDEN!!" She ran and jumped into his arms.

'What's with her and jumping on me?'

"Nice to see you to Mei." He smiled.

"Where were you yesterday! I looked all over for you!" She spoke very fast.

"I was... sick." He lied. He didn't know if there were any recording devices around and he rather not have to spend time in the teacher lounge explaining why he decided to skip a day.

"Why were you looking for me?" He changed the subject.

Remembering that she had a purpose for seeking him out, she quickly separated herself from him and went to rummage a round her workshop.

"Here it is!" She yelled in joy as she pulled out a weird looking metal object. It was rectangular shaped and a weird slit at the end of it.

"What is it?" He asked perplexed.

"Remember that time we talked about your astral energy during the tournament?"

Just as he was about to answer, Mei interrupted him.

"Of course you do! Anyway! I remember you saying that it couldn't interact with other objects as it either passed through it or damage it somehow."

Remembering that they did indeed have such a conversation, Aiden nodded.

"At first I didn't truly understand it, but after watching you fight in the tournament I got an idea! What if the reason your energy couldn't interact with objects was because it ignored the same kind of physics we understood!"

'Ignored the same kind of physics?'

"Then it got me thinking, what if we could somehow contain your energy!" She continued.

"Contain my energy?" He frowned. If what she was saying was possible then it would be very dangerous for him. Having his energy be contained by anything other than his body was detrimental as it could give his enemies weapons to fight against him.

"Yes! As rudimentary as it is, I managed to fashion a crystal capable of withstanding your energy!" Opening the rectangular object in her hand, she pulled out a small diamond-like crystal.

"What is it?"

"Its better if you try it out yourself!" She said with stars in her eyes.

Putting the crystal back inside the object, she handed it over to Aiden and watched in suspense.

"What am I supposed to do?" He asked.

"Just pour your energy into it!"

Doing as she said, he started circulating the astral energy in his body and lead it towards the object.

*BZZZ*

"What the!!"

From the slit in the object, a purple light burst out and shaped itself into the image of a blade.

"What the fuck?"

"IT WORKS!!" Mei yelled in joy.

"This..." He looked at the rectangular object in his hand and ignored the protruding astral energy blade. "This is a hilt!"

"DING DING DING!!" Mei yelled and jumped to his side. "IT REALLY WORKS!!"

Stopping the flow of astral energy, the purple blade retreated into the hilt and returned to his body.

"What is this?" He turned to the excited Mei.

"A saber!" She yelled bursting with emotion. "It works better than I thought! After seeing that move you used against Todoroki in the tournament, I thought wouldn't it be cool if you could have that in weapon form! So I work day and night to construct this hilt and fashioned it around this rare crystal! The theory behind it is amazing! Instead of your power shooting out like it did before, I added small points on the hilt that produce a small magnetic field that holds the energy in place! This way you can use it like a sword and not worry about it flying away!"

Hearing her explanation, Aiden was genuinely shocked. Due to his trauma he was unable to construct anything other than a pole and his knives, but now Mei had just given him and object that allowed him to use a saber! How could he not be shocked!

"Wait! Didn't you say the crystal was meant to contain my energy? So why did it return to me the moment I stopped circulating it?" He asked.

"Eh?" Was her reply.

---

After a couple minutes of checking and experimenting, the two discovered that since astral energy didn't follow the same kind of laws that normal energy did, the crystal wasn't able to contain it in the same way it would with normal energy. Instead it managed to stabilize and maintain it. This meant that as long as Aiden was holding onto the hilt and supplied it with some astral energy, it would take on the shape of a blade. But the moment he let go of it or stopped circulating his energy into the object, all the energy that was inside the hilt would naturally return back to him.

For Aiden this was perfect. Not only did he receive a new weapon in the form of a saber, but it also meant that there was no actual energy loss when using the hilt. He really couldn't ask for a better support device.

Mei on the other hand was slightly disappointed that her creation couldn't truly contain his energy. But she was happy that she created a medium for his energy output. In her own words, "Just cuz a creation doesn't work as intended doesn't mean the effort is wasted." A quote she picked up from Thomas Edison.

[A/n: It's basically the Darksaber from star wars but not hot or as sharp.]

For some reason Mei wanted to name it the Purple Sword but Aiden thought it sounded to stupid and wanted to call it the Astral Saber. So after a bit of quarreling, they decided to compromise and called it the Astral Blade.

Not a moment later, Mina burst into the workshop with desperation in her eyes.