If all of your characters were told that the story's current setting was too 'boring' and the fic was to be resumed in a high-school boarding school, how would they react?
I'll do you one better. One-shot time.
Just Another Day
Kairn's head dropped to his desk for the tenth time that class period. "Arceus, this is boring."
"Hey," Ren hissed, poking him. "Pay attention."
"You pay enough attention for both of us," Kairn mumbled. Then he raised his hand. "Teach, when will we ever use this?"
Ren glared at him, but their Physics teacher, Mrs. Mewtwo, smiled. "When will you use the properties of lasers?" She pondered for a moment. "Well, your partner Latios controls light, correct?" Kairn nodded. "And do you know how he stores light with his feathers?" The boy shook his head.
"His feathers work in much the same way as lasers do. They trap light by absorbing it and then reflecting it back and forth, which lets him store energy indefinitely. As you know, Latios can then use that light for such things as battling. What if I told you that, if you and Latios knew how lasers worked, he could increase the strength of his light attacks by 54%?"
Kairn leaned forward. "I'm listening."
"Aha!" Mewtwo exclaimed triumphantly. "For once, Kairn is interested in something besides the battle arena!" The class laughed. "Right then, pay close attention. This is a diagram of a laser. These are mirrors, and this is called an 'optical gain'..."
***
Ren and Latias were walking home from school that afternoon, chatting amongst themselves, when Kairn and Latios raced up from behind them.
"Hey!" Kairn said, pulling up alongside the younger boy. "You know how you always beat me in battle class, and then when I ask you what your secret is, you say 'I read?' Well I think I get it now! I looked up this laser stuff in our Physics book, and I found all of this other amazing crap, like momentum and leverage and how wedges work...if Latios and I applied this to our fighting, we'd be so much better!"
"Yep," Ren replied. "Now you just have to study for..." he counted on his fingers, "about three years straight without eating or sleeping if you want to catch up with me and Latias." The red-and-white dragon floating beside him failed at suppressing a laugh.
"Yeah, yeah," Kairn mumbled. "Just you watch, I'll beat you someday."
Suddenly, a black sports car raced by the four students, one of the side mirrors clipping Kairn in the arm. He went down with a shout as the vehicle sped off without slowing.
"Are you alright Kairn?!" Latios was by his partner's side in an instant, helping him up. There was a rip in the boy's sleeve, revealing a bloody gash underneath.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Kairn replied, wincing. He tossed his backpack on the ground and began fumbling through it for a Potion.
"Curse that Donovan!" Latias swore. "He thinks that just because the government is protecting him 24/7 while he beta-tests that Porygon, he can do whatever he wants!"
"He kind of can," Ren pointed out, to which the rest of the group responded with silence.
"Aw, forget it," Kairn said at last, the Potion having already healed the cut on his arm. "Two more months until the trial ends and the government takes that digital freak away, and then he's Sharpedo bait. He'll get what's coming to him then. Come on, let's go play Smash Bros. or something."
The four friends began walking again, heading for Ren's house. It was just another day.