The break...did not include food.

  Or not as much as Alexa would have liked, they said things like 'If you eat too much you may feel bad after' and 'We can only give you light food'.

  Cheating was abound, and Alexa knew it, their enemies were making sure she wasn't fed enough to participate at her maximum, so Alexa would not be deceived!

  So she did the second-best thing!

  "Gloryyyyyyyy....Alexa is hungy (? ????????? )." So Alexa snitched!

  The other girl merely turned to look at her as if she wasn't sure how to react, "We will be able to eat a fuller meal after the events for the day are done." The other girl answered turning to the cooking helpers.

  "That is correct Lady Blackthorn," One of them said taking Glory's plate, the girl had a simple soup with barely anything on it and a piece of bread. "...Lady...Alexa?"

  The cook helper said, unsure about how to refer to Alexa, pointed to Alexa's table, "Lady Alexa has already surpassed the minimum suggested intake, and that is because she went around asking multiple people for food..."

  Alexa was snitched!

  They snitched on Alexa!

  They would get stitches! Mikey said as much, snitches get stitches!

  ...Unless those stitches were food, and so they snitched for that reason? Alexa needed to check on that, too; perhaps that was why they snitched? To get more food?

  "...Here, Alexa, we were planning on giving this to you later, but since we are about to start the events, we may as well." Glory said while pulling something from her backpack, it was a pink bar-like object.

  It had the words [Brain Burst], Alexa didn't like the implications of having a brain burst, it sounded like it would hurt. Especially since Alexa had many important things in her [Brain], like her memories about where she hid the mango candy.

  And the memory of the taste from the first Candy she ate. And the memories of how many candies people owed her.

  And things like that.

  "This should be good enough to last you till we end of the day, Esteemed Mother said that it should be fine for you to eat it if your power indeed burned that many calories." And like that, Alexa was given the envelope with the weird name, "What are you waiting for? Didn't you want a Mentalist MRE?"

  The mentalist MRE? This was it?

  But it didn't look anything like how Alexa remembered the previous MRE she had eaten before?

  "What's the problem?" Glory asked confused, "Are you planning to eat it till we end the events? It's okay, if you are really hungry you can eat it first, we wanted to buy your participation and to make sure you wouldn't throw our events. But after getting to know you, we know better."

  "Indeed, you aren't devious enough to be able to throw the events without being caught on after all." Alan added from the side.

  Rude.

  But Alexa was grateful nonetheless...why?

  "Main Core! Record the thing!" Because she got to eat the thing!

  The tasty thing!

  So Alexa took the envelope and shoved it down her throat!

  "Alexa!" To the surprise of Glory, who screamed in horror.

  But Alexa would not get defeated!

  "NOMNOMNOMASDLASKHDFASLKDFHASFMOGUMOGUlakfhasf....Sound of eating!" So Alexa said while shoving the thing down her throat...again, she had a gag reflex that almost made her throw the thing away.

  "No! Bad Alexa, you don't eat the envelope!" Glory said trying to open Alexa's mouth, but it was too late!

  Alexa had already eaten the thing! It was safely stored on her tummy! So it was a done deal!

  "Puke it out!" Glory suddenly said, shoving Alexa's head down so it pointed to the ground, "Puke it out right now!"

  And then started hitting Alexa on the back!

  It… didn't hurt? It was closer to her massaging her back; it was quite comfortable, actually, but that was beside the point! Glory wanted the thingy back!

  "No!" Alexa said, trying to wrestle herself to freedom.

  "Alan! Stop gawking and help me here, Alexa's joints behave like gelato!" Glory said to Alan while Alexa turned noddle mode on.

  She was an Alexa Noddle! She would noddle her way to freedom! Freeeeeeeeedom.

  "I mean…she is a shapeshifter core user, trying to use a joint lock in her was a mistake," Alan said sighing in defeat, "Alexa, where is the MRE bar and the envelope? Can you show them to me?"

  Could she?

  "You promise to not take it away?" Alexa asked while raising her head and stretching it a little so it was above Glory.

  Right now Alexa looked like an Alexa noddle hugging Glory, most of her uniform was normal and wasn't stretching, so only Alexa's arms, legs and neck were stretching beyond normal.

  "Of course, I'll not take away anything that is yours," Alan said smiling.

  Alexa would not be deceived! That smile was evil! Evil!

  "Sure," Alexa was deceived! “Here….bleeeeeeergh.”

  And then from her mouth Alexa let the envelope (Now empty) be reconstructed, it was almost as if Alexa had turned into a printer…An…Alexa printer.

  "....Glory stop struggling and let Alexa go, look at this," Alan said, picking up the empty envelope from Alexa's mouth.

  ".... I'm stuck, Alexa, let me go. I promise to not take away the snack." Glory said as she struggled to release herself from the mighty Alexa noddle.

  There was no escape from an Alexa noddle! Once you got entwined into an Alexa noddle, only death awaited you, muahahahahahahahahaha.

  "Alexa, I'll convince Glory to give you another snack later, let her go." Alan said from the side, so Alexa had no option but to release Glory; her evil plans to squish Glory enough to see if she could turn into a Glory noddle would need to wait for later.

  "Kay~" So Alexa said while returning to normal, it was quite…interesting, so long Alexa didn't want to transform into anything too outlandish she could control the rough look of her body easily enough.

  Granted, this was also thanks to the panic of her snacks being stolen from her of course.

  "...yuck." Was the first thing Glory said when she was released and walked towards Alan.

  That was rude; Alexa Noddle wasn't yuck!

  Glory was yuck! Her Mother was yuck! Her auntie was yuck! What was an auntie? Alexa did not know, but it was yuck!

  "It's fine, for some reason it doesn't have spit," Alan said raising the empty envelope. Alexa had remade it exactly as it was when she ate it, so the interior could be seen.

  When the MRE bar got into her mouth, the first thing she did was open it with her nanites and decompose everything.

  She now had the full Blueprint of the MRE Bar…and…

  Core didn't react to it.

  “[Notice: MRE Bar did not qualify for a blueprint since it is normal food with no redeeming factors besides the highly concentrated nutrients and sugar.]”

  This narrative has been purloined without the author's approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.

  Well that was underwhelming, why had Alexa gone this far then? This thing was almost the same as the Speedster MRE she had eaten before!

  "....did you clean it already?" Glory asked confused, "Then what's the deal? No wait, why is it open? It was closed when I gave it to Alexa, and it had a bar inside. I made sure to check it wasn't faulty or empty before picking it up."

  Faulty? There were faulty of these things? How could you make a faulty MRE? The formulae wasn't that complex!

  It was simpler than her gallbladder! And Alexa's gall bladder was very simple! It was where Alexa stored her gall!

  "Nope, Alexa spat it like this, dry and already open, as if she had opened it with a pair of scissors…Or a knife." Alan said turned to Alexa as he said this.

  Alexa…had not used scissors or knives; she had used nanites! Well, technically, that was using a monofilament knife…since her nanites had ripped it open using a long line of marching nanites to open it in a straight line.

  "Alexa? Did you need to eat it like that?" Glory said turning to Alexa while checking out the envelope. "Did you need to give me a scare like that?"

  Alexa was not sure why, but Glory was scary right now, it was like…like she would scold Alexa! And Alexa was innocent! Innocent she was!

  "....Yes?" Alexa answered, confused, "Main Core helped me with the digestion of the envelope, and since Alexa needs to make sure the MRE is in place for when Alexa needs it, she had to eat it as soon as possible."

  Really, she would not let a source of energy and calories go to waste that easily! Alexa would not allow waste of efficiency!

  "So it's easier for Alexa to nom things and think later." Alexa said nodding her head at the statement, she truly had been born to nom.

  “*sigh*...” Glory did the sigh! "Okay…so? Where is the MRE bar then?"

  "... it's on Alexa's tummy." Alexa said, the bar…was not there since the materials had been taken apart while analyzing composition and the components got sent to the places they were needed the most.

  The sugar content was packed away on Alexa's happy stockpile (Sugar Stockpile), the calories and fat content got sent to the appropriate pile, and so on and so on.

  "...Did you even chew that properly?" Glory asked with a worried look, why was she worried?

  Or was she angry because Alexa didn't share? It wasn't Alexa's fault! They didn't say that they wanted to nom on her MRE snack!

  Granted, Alexa nomed it faster so they wouldn't get a chance to ask…but it wasn't Alexa's fault that they didn't ask in time! They knew Alexa! Alexa liked to nom things! Everyone knew that!

  …Everyone knew that…right?

  "Of course!" Even so, Alexa answered nodding while reverting her form from Alexa Noddle Edition to Alexa…Alexa edition (Allegedly, the best version). "Alexa is the best at noming things!"

  And she was the best, no one could nom like an Alexa, you could ask any nearby Alexa that and the answer would be the same!

  Or at least to any Alexa worth their name, any Alexa that couldn't nom right wasn't a true Alexa. They may dream about electric sheep, but they weren't a true Alexa till they started noming.

  "Then why didn't you just eat it like normal?" Glory sighed in defeat, "Fine, then let's just…prepare for this."

  What was there to prepare? Alexa had ate (Little to nothing), nomed her MRE Mentalist edition thingy (it wasn't that special besides having a higher dosage of dextrose) and had unlocked a secondary food transformation.

  With this her arsenal of food transformation had increased, she could become Alexa Taco Edition and Alexa Noddle Edition.

  And you know what they say about noodles…they are tasty with some parmesan cheese, tomato sauce, and some fried chicken!

  No, wait, where did that come from? Besides that isn't noodless anymore but Spaghetti! With fried chicken…The hunger was getting the best of Alexa!

  "Private Alexa reporting for duty!" Alexa decided to get into the mood of preparing herself for this war, so she stood at attention and saluted (With her left hand), "So? What does Alexa need to do?"

  "...*Le Sigh* First off, let's go to the auditorium, the war events will be announced there." Glory sighed and just pointed to the exit.

  Alan was at the side smiling like a very weird person, and most of the students took Glory pointing in that direction as a signal, so they all started walking out of the classroom. At some point while eating, the teacher person had left and so the other students and the cook helpers were the only ones around.

  Alexa didn't mind that, to be honest, as this meant that Alexa didn't have the phantom of a headache while looking at the teacher person; she found it extremely unsettling the fact that she still couldn't detect when the teacher person moved away from her perception and into her perception.

  What kind of Core Power did he even have to allow for that? Alexa really wanted to get a sample from him, more so to corroborate the current theories that Core had about Core Powers than anything.

  Perhaps she could get a new sample from when Glory inevitably turned berserk and showcased her Core Power?

  Alexa had not forgotten about the fact that it was Glory's turn….

  "...Alexa? I don't have another MRE snack, even if you glare at me I can't get another. Mother only gives me so many of these." Glory said shaking her head, "Did you manage to get one Alan?"

  "Me? You know my family doesn't dwell into those business, if you want body armor or weaponry I'm your man. But for Core User MRE Grade food, I can't help you." Alan said checking his pockets, if he didn't had one why was he searching? "I have a few of the normal ones, but these don't work that well with Core Users as far as I am aware?"

  And he took a smaller bar, it was similar in design to the one the V person had, but smaller. And more pitiful looking, like the V person!

  "I doubt-" Glory was about to say something…

  But Alexa was faster! She quickly nomed the snack!

  “NOMNOMNOMASDLKHASASD…..” And stopped thinking when she noticed her mouth was awfully close to Alan's fingers…

  "The next part was mogu mogu." Alan said smiling at her, "Also please don't bite me."

  "....Error..Alexa.cutestestestgirlofthem all has crashed…" Alexa said mechanically, trying to imitate Main Core when he spoke.

  Alexa slowly enveloped the snack with her tongue and ripped it out of Alan's hand (And perhaps licked and stole a few cells from the boy).

  “[Notice, nothing of value seems to be-]”

  "SHUT IT AND RECORD IT!" Alexa calmly asked Main Core.

  “[Sending data to Core.]”

  ….So Alan wasn't human? No wait, was this the reason why he was that weird? And perfectly symmetrical? Alexa hadn't seen any other human-like this…besides those that held [Cores]...

  Then was Glory like that too?

  "What? Did it not taste good?" Glory said, turning to Alexa. "Alexa, spit the envelope of that one too, you will hurt your stomach."

  Alexa didn't finish processing the envelope and merely fixed what her nanites destroyed, "Glory…can I nom you?" Alexa decided to ask while pulling the envelope from her mouth.

  "....No?" Glory answered confused, "No wait, why? I assume that by 'Noming' you mean biting me right?"

  Alexa nodded her head, "I don't need to take any flesh or blood, merely licking would be enough." And really, she didn't even need to lick or use her mouth, but Alexa liked that approach, it felt more personal.

  "...Why?" Glory said, stopping and standing against a wall, "I assume this has something to do with you licking Alan's fingers. But I assure you, like Alan, I will not be tasty."

  "Wow rude much?" Alan suddenly said from the side, "I was raised with the best meals, education, and exercise that was afforded by the Harmonia. There is no better-tasting man on this side of the city."

  "Didn't the teacher person said that no one exercises here?" Alexa asked back.

  "...I stand by my point." Alan said shamelessly.

  "That is not the problem though!" Alexa shook her head, "Alan is weird, his body is not humaning as it should!"

  Alexa wasn't sure how to explain that, "I need to check Glory, Core said that Alan was sick. Alexa doesn't want Alan to be sick!" And that really was the thing.

  Core had brought a long list of possible organ failures, prognostic of early death and many other things, but what Alexa feared the most was that she had found once more a [Sickness] that she had seen on her first day out.

  She had found one of the possible organ failures could lead to…[Cancer], a devious thing made by the [Humans] that could turn their bodies against themselves. Alexa couldn't understand why someone would design something as horrible as that.

  She was aware that the nanite swarm she held had the probability of turning like that, but even so. Her nanites would never go out of their way to make it hard on their own host, terminating them.

  Of that, Alexa was sure.

  "...Sick?" Alan said, narrowing his eyes, "How would your…Core know that?"

  "Are you really a mere Shapeshifter?" Glory asked too, "Or are you interpreting the information that your Core gives in some way that allows you to know more of the people you interact with?"

  That was quite the logical leap, but Alexa was not worried about that at the moment.

  "Core knows things, and he helps me using my powers." Alexa answered, "Alexa's power is too complex for her to run on her own, so she delegatates things to others. Main Core deals with Alexa's most advanced ways of using her powers, while Core ensures that Main Core doesn't go over the board."

  "And what sickness does your Core Power say I have then?" Alan asked amused, "The Harmonia takes care of their own quite well, so I find it somewhat insulting that you claim I am sick. Even if it is nice of you to worry about me."

  "The same can be said of any noble family; we have monthly checkups within the Blackthorn, and every six months, we have a full medical examination; there is no way for me to be sick either." Glory said looking at her own hand, "...But we don't have time to check on that, I'll let you…lick my hand if you win us the event today."

  That…but Glory could have a sick too!

  "No buts Alexa." Glory said before Alexa could say anything, "We need to follow proper procedure, and while Alan can be nonchalant about this, something that affects my future…I can't have those kind of distractions. Not yet."

  Gnuuuuuu….

  "Fine!" Alexa said throwing her hands into the air, "But I'll nom more than I need then!"

  Alexa would win this stupid thing, and then she would nom Glory to make sure she hadn't a sick, and then pick one of the filler students and check if she could fix their [Human] bodies.

  If she superimposed her [Blueprint] onto them…that ought to do it right? Her [Blueprint] was healthy after all, what would be the worst thing that could happen if she used her [Blueprint] in someone else…

  That was the right way to use her [Blueprint]...right?