by Jessie Wolf
“Calm down you two, I agree that we need to confront them, just not with the how.” Fuyuko was doing her level best to keep her own anger at what she has heard from her own dorm mates. Some of the stories she heard were enough to send her in to an all-out Heather beat down. “If we just go around covering them in blue paint, hitting them with honey bombs, and everything else they do, they won’t get the message. We need to teach them all a lesson at the same time. If we remove Bethany and her three friends that left the ‘Heathers’ at dinner time, we have a total of twenty-five confirmed enemy targets. However if include them were back up to the twenty-nine original targets. In short we’re facing what amounts to an infantry platoon sized force. However that’s as a whole, but if we break them down across the grades, we have five in every grade but one, the seventh only having four because that was all that were accepted. Now, let’s look at this from a tactical view. If we hit the seniors, juniors, freshmen, and Bethany’s crew all within the next hour while sissy is with the Headmaster she’ll have the perfect alibi, so will Alice. The question is what do, we do?” the three girls looked at each other. “Come on we only have a narrow window of opportunity here.”
“Wait, a minute, what would sissy do in this situation?” when the other two look at Nanami she just smiled. “She would ask Dee De or Charlie for the tactical situation. Why don’t we do the same thing? I mean don’t we have almost the same AI as she does, only we just have the one.”
It was like a light had been shown down on all three girls as they consulted with their Death Dealer AIs for the very first time. This is the true power of the Death Dealer, instantaneous access to strategic and tactical information, strategies for fighting every kind of war, intelligence resources from across the universe, giving them the edge in any fight, in short making them the perfect solider. They are the culmination of eight centuries of research and development, training, and untold gold credits. These are men, and now women, of the highest caliber trained to use and work with their AIs as if it were second nature. Since the girls have yet to have this training consulting and using their AIs was not something they did on a conscious level; for each girl the experience was different.
(In the mind of Fuyuko…)
“Um…Hello, is anyone there?”
About damned time you decided to say hello, girl.
“Oh wow, so this is what it feels like for Maiha. Oh yeah, what do I call you?”
(Giggle) You can call me Damia. (Giggle)
“Thank you; it’s a pleasure to meet you. Do you by chance have any advice on how to do what we want to do? I’m kind of new at all this stuff?”
(Giggle) Girlfriend, do I ever! (Damia)
(Nanase meets her inner voice…)
“Hello?”
Greetings Nanase, I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
“Are you the one who has been helping me out with everything lately?”
Yes, dear I am. If it makes you feel any better my sister AI over with your twin Nanami has been doing the same thing. You know slipping in little hints every now then. You can call me Dezba. It means morning star.
“Thank you, Dezba. Do you have any ideas on how to handle the ‘Heathers’?”
(GIGGLE) Oh boy do I ever. (Dezba)
(Nanami and her inner voice…)
I finally get to meet you, Nanami.
“Um… Who are you?”
(giggle) Child, I’m your AI. You can call me Devi, after the Goddess of power and destruction. (giggle)
“You sound like Maiha, Devi. Any way it’s nice to meet you.”
The pleasure is all mine, Nanami. Now how can I help you and your sisters out? (Devi)
“Well, you know all about warfare, strategies, tactics, you know all that stuff we haven’t learned like sissy has, can you give us some ideas on how to handle the ‘Heathers’?”
In more ways than one. Those females need to learn some humility. (Devi)
The final awakening for the three sisters and their AIs; was a very special moment for them. Just as it had been for their big sister Maiha all those years ago the girls found themselves with a companion that would be there no matter what, until the day of their deactivation. When all three opened their eyes and looked at each other they could see the tears in their sister’s eyes. Across each one face was a look of pure joy. It was Fuyuko who would sum up their feelings at that moment in time.
“My Goddess, I never would have thought having to share my head with someone else could be so exciting!” looking over at her younger sisters. “You know what this means don’t you?” When they shook their heads no she explained. “From now on sissy and Ally aren’t the only ones who can plan out what, where, when, and how we put the beat down on someone.” At hearing their older sister’s words the twins begin to giggle, they were like a pair of giddy schoolgirls, which was fitting as that was what they were.
For the next few minutes they discuss what they’re going to do, but it was the sounds of muffled voices passing underneath Fuyuko’s window that spurred them into action. When they looked out the window what they saw pissed all three of them off. Except for the four ‘Heathers’ that were in the Headmasters office with Maiha and Alice, the other twenty-one members were dragging Bethany and her friends across the school grounds. Fuyuko had Damia bio-scan the four girls and found they were all drugged.
“Those sluts! They just can’t let Bethany and her friends walk away. They have to go and make an example out of them.” Nanase was almost spitting nails she was so mad.
“If I had any doubts about putting the beat down on those whores before, I don’t now.” Looking at her older sisters, Nanami. “And I think I have the perfect way to first put those cunts in their places, and to remind Bethany and her friends to stay out of the ‘Heathers’ as well as a little punishment for their past sins.”
Fuyuko and Nanase both looked at their baby sister. While most of the time Nanami would follow the lead of the others there were times when she saw things from a point of view that would work out better for everyone else.
“Come on let’s get changed, and activate our armor while I tell you what I have in mind. You want to know the best part; we won’t hurt anyone psychically, except for giving them a head ache.” Nanami was almost vibrating with the thought of sharing her plan for taking down the ‘Heathers’. As they helped each other out of their formal kimonos she laid everything out for them. “First off, we let them scramble the feed for the security cameras, I know that’s against everything Maiha would say, but it’ll give us an advantage as they’ll be in the dark as well. Second I know you’re not going to like this, but we let them do what they’re going to do to Bethany her crowd. Now, once they have done their petty bullshit, we strike. We hit them with our sonic disruptors to knock them out. Now the best place for this would be in a wide open area so it doesn’t kill them from the over pressure or whatever it’s called. So we can’t hit them in one of the hallways.” She and Nanase were by this time out of their kimonos and helping Fuyuko to finish undressing.
Once they were all bare as the day they were borne the girls let their bio-armor flow out over their skin covering them from the neck down. “Right, Storm Dancers, full combat stealth mode.” As their armor turned black Nanami slowly opened Fuyuko’s dorm room window. Making the ‘follow me’ gesture she slid out the window into the darkening evening skies. From outside it looked as if the shadows had turned to liquid and flowed down the side of the dorms brick and ivory exterior. Just to disappear into the shadows that surrounded the ground floor of the dorm. At this point in time the three girls truly became what they had for so long desired to be. The equal of their big sister Maiha, they had become Death Dealers. Though they did not know it just then, it would become readily apparent to their sister and sister-in-law when they were next together.
The coming night became their ally as the skies were as always darkening with a speed that belied the time. As the girls moved to catch up with the ‘Heathers’
Nanami explained the rest of her plan. “Once we have them out of commission, it is all about timing. We need something to haul them on if we’re going to pull this off. Any ideas?” it was Nanase who spotted the solution. She merely pointed to an old yard cart off to one side of the gymnasium. “Perfect, that’ll hold them if we stack them right. Now be ready when they come out to hit them with no more than one quarter power on the disruptors. Fuyuko, hide behind that row of bushes, Nanase, take cover over by the Scarab tree it’ll cover the direct front, and I’ll be over here behind the hedgerow. Alright let’s get moving.”
All three girls move into their positions and waited for the ‘Heathers’ to come out of the main gymnasium entrance. They didn’t have long to wait, as one they slid from behind their hiding places, and fired their sonic disruptors. The ‘Heathers’ dropped like rocks out cold. With a speed and grace that belied their strength the girls loaded their prizes on to the yard cart. “Ok, from here out it’s going to get easier. All we have to do this loop the security feed like they do and place our little friends here in front of the dorm mothers rooms, hog tied, gagged, and naked. Just like they have done to so many in the past. I figure we have about twenty minutes before the security guards catch on to what’s happened.”
“My Goddess, Nanami, when you decide to come up with a plan to embarrass someone, you come up with a doozy,” Fuyuko was impressed in more ways than one by her baby sister. “Come on we need to get them in to the right hallways before we get caught ourselves.”
The girls moved quickly and quietly between the different buildings. No effort was wasted, no time lost to hesitation, they had a mission to accomplish and nothing was going to stop them. Each had a timer going in the upper right corner of their HUD. They weren’t going to get caught out unawares, not by the time or their surroundings. After getting each and every one of the unconscious girls on the right floors and ‘gift wrapped’ for the dorm mothers the girls slipped back into Fuyuko’s dorm room. From start to finish the whole operation took a total of thirty-five minutes. Fuyuko helped her sisters get redressed in their kimonos and escorted them back to their own rooms. While they were performing their little dance with the placing the ‘Heathers’, their AIs were busy keeping the security cameras and officers in the dark.
At the door to the eighth grade dorm the twins hugged their sister in front of a fully operational security camera. “Good night, sis. Thanks for helping us with our homework.” Nanase almost shouted the cover line, if it hadn’t been for a kick in the mental pants by her AI. She like her sisters was finding out the upside as well as the downside of sharing their head with someone else.
“Good night, you two. I’ll see you in the morning. Don’t forget to wash and air your undies.” She smiled at them and headed back to her dorm. As she was getting back to her dorm she saw the evening security officers entering the building. She was ten seconds behind them. Seeing them head for the second floor she just kept on going up to the third floor where her room was. She got halfway down the hallway to her room when she was stopped.
“Excuse me, miss. Can you tell me where you have been for the past hour or so?” the security guard that stopped her was in his mid-thirties, had dark brown hair, soft green eyes, and a baby face. In short cute as a button. The name tag read Nevins.
“Well, Officer Nevins, I was with my kid sisters studying since dinner time in my room.”
The man looked at me with a strange look on his face. “Then why are you just now coming through the front door if you’ve been in your room all evening?”
“Oh, that’s simple. I walked them back to their dorm and was just now returning.” The look of innocence on her face was almost perfect. It must have been the slight smirk that got Nevins’ attention.
“Why is it that I have a hard time believing you, ah miss?”
Noreen Hall, Fuyuko’s dorm mother spoke up at that time. “Officer Nevins, I can assure you that Miss Nakatoma had nothing to do with this evening shenanigans.”
Looking over at the dorm mother. “How is that Mrs. Hall? She has absolutely no alibi.”
“I beg to differ sir. For starters I saw her and her sisters enter the building shortly after dinner and enter her room on the third floor. At no time did they exit her room, until fifteen minutes ago. At no time did they leave her room or the building during the time in question. If they had I would have seen them.” The old lady was starting to get upset. They had never before been allowed to just question the students here. No matter what had happened the students were always off limits, something like this would never have happened under Mrs. Caroline.
Sensing that the dorm mother was upset with him Nevins took the easy way out for now. “That’s all for now Miss Nakatoma. However we may have a few more questions to ask, at a later time.”
“Oh sure, I understand your just doing your job. But maybe you can tell me why you wanted to know where I have been?”
“Several students were attacked this evening.” He told her honestly. He didn’t let on about how they were found.
“Oh, wow. Was anyone hurt? Did you catch the guys who did it? I bet they were part of some Yakuza gang thing or maybe even the old Sicilian Cosa Nostra” Fuyuko began to get really excited in her embellishments of what she thought had happened or what she wanted the security officer to think.
However Nevins was thinking nowhere near that. ‘God save me from the imaginations of teenage girls.’ “Can you tell me who it was that got attacked? Have you talked to my sister Maiha yet about this? Maybe she can get you some help in tracking the culprits down. She is the System Governor after all.”
“Easy there, Miss.” Nevins thought to himself ‘Lord save me from teenage girls and their over active imaginations.’ “For starters, no one was actually hurt, just their pride. Secondly, no I cannot tell you who was attacked, and lastly what do you mean have we talked to your sister yet? And just who is she?” Nevins had taken out a small note pad and was getting ready to write down what she said, but stop the moment she opened her mouth.
“Why Lady Maiha Nakatoma, everybody knows that. What are you, stupid or just incompetent in doing your job?” Fuyuko was now laying it on thick and heavy. She had to get these fools to start looking in a different direction. She needed them to look at someone else other than the Storm Dancers. “I got a better idea, why don’t you go bother the ‘Heathers’. They’re ones who normally pull this kind of crap whatever it is.”
“Miss. Nakatoma, you’ll apologize to Officer Nevins this minute. I know you are new to our school, but the young ladies here do not show that kind of disrespect to the staff here.” Mrs. Hall was embarrassed by the very thought of this girl accusing the security officer of incompetence.
“Yes, ma’am.” Looking at Officer Nevins Fuyuko bowed from the waist. “Sir, please forgive me. I meant no disrespect; I only wished to point out how a certain group of students have been consistently overlooked as the perpetrators of these types of acts.” In no way was Fuyuko sorry for calling out the officer and his co-workers. Yes she knew exactly who had committed the so called assault, but she remembered Maiha’s statement about never giving up Intel. The way she figured it these ass clowns can do their own work from now on; she wasn’t going to help them screw over her or her sisters.
“Miss Nakatoma, it was the ‘Heathers’ that were the ones assaulted.” Nevins was beginning to get upset with the young lady in front of him. “Now, can you possibly tell me of anyone who would do such a thing to them?”
“Sure, just about every student in the school who isn’t a ‘Heather’.” She looked him in the eye. “I guess your pool of suspects just got a whole lot bigger.”
“I see. So in your opinion it could have been just about anyone of the students who have a beef with the ‘Heathers’. Thank you for answering my questions, Miss. Nakatoma. You can go on to your room. The Security Chief may have more questions for you at a later time though.” Sensing he wasn’t going to get anything out of the girl Nevins d
ecided to let her go for now. Besides he had no definitive proof that she was involved.
“Thank you, Officer Nevins and goodnight.” Fuyuko turned with a flip of her waist length hair, and headed for her room. Once inside of her room Fuyuko started to get ready for bed. As she was doing so she decided to have a conversation with her new ‘roommate’ Damia.
“Damia, are you sure that none of the cameras broadcasted what we did?
(Giggle) Honey child those cameras were all stuck in a back loop and crossover feed for the entire time. The best part is if they go looking for the original signal all they’ll find is old reruns of an early twenty-first century two-d show about some immortal spaceman with a time machine spaceship shaped like a blue police call box. (Giggle)(Damia)
“You have to be kidding me. Where in the world did you dig that up?”
Don’t ask me, it was your sister Nanami’s AI Devi; she was the one who found it. (Damia)
“Do all of you have a sense of humor like that?”
It depends on each individual AI. Some of us are real stick in the muds, and others are as crazy as their hosts. It all depends on the individual host and their gestalt with their AIs. (Damia)
“So, what you’re saying is I kind of influenced how you came out?”
Exactly, my dear. All Death Dealer AIs are a reflection of their hosts’ personalities. We are just as much a part of you as you are of us. (Damia)
Fuyuko took a few minutes to go over what she was just told by her AI. There was something that had been bothering her for a while now; it concerned her older sister and the fact that she was hosting two very deferent AIs. The problem was she didn’t know how to ask Maiha without insulting her. However now that she had her own Death Dealer she might be able to find out the answer.
“Damia, can you tell me why Maiha has two AIs instead of just the one?”
