Magical Girl Melody
Chapter 04 Ballerina Girl
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It was early the next morning when Roberta found out what happened to the two feebs that were chasing Melody and her mother.
She saw the two Kigrurmi maids in Pippkin’s office. They were both lying in their own steamer trunk set in a closet, their eyes partly opened, and their mouthes were open in a happy sigh. They had on identical Maid uniforms that went up to their thighs and down to just above their nipples, showing a good part of their D-cup body. They had on the same color of hose and high heels, the same hair style in puffy hats--Ami’s was blonde while Beth’s was a light brown--and a identical form of makeup which accented their Anime-style face.
They looked way too much like what she saw in Conneticut.
It wasn’t alleviated with the revelation of who was in those suits.
“True enough, this might be rather naughty of me to put them into these costumes,” Pippkin said. “but if you think about it, I couldn’t think of anything else that could be proper. I’m a firm believer of Karmatic Justice, where the bad guys are done in the way they would do onto others. And that’s what they have planned for Penny and Melody.”
Roberta just stood there with her arms crossed. Her logic circuits did let her know that Pippkin’s argument was indeed valid, but the ethics involved was indeed questionable. “It just seems so inhuman, though, adjusting their bodies and minds in this way.”
It wasn’t just seeing them in storage that made her say that, but also with the pair of USB cables that connected them by the back of their necks into a computer with a wide screen. The screen showed the vitals of the organic being encased in femininity with a series of settings in some dialogue screens:
|
META MACROS |
0 == Reset 1 == Freeze 2 == Go 3 == Hold 4 == Suit Awareness |
5 == Doll 6 == Ragdoll 7 == Teach 8 == Program 9 == Define Macro |
90 == Temp Sex Drive 91 == Temp Mood 92 == Temp Vocal 99 == Chara Maker |
|
SEX DRIVE |
0 == Celebate 1 == Private Only 2 == Public Display |
3 == Active Private 4 == Active Public |
5 == Hyper Private 6 == Hyper Public |
|
MOOD SELECTION |
0 == Calm 1 == Happy 2 == Excited 3 == Blue |
4 == Sad 5 == Frightened 6 == Tired |
7 == Miffed 8 == Angry 9 == Sultry 10 == Love |
|
VOICE SELECTOR |
0 == Mute 1 == Machine Noise 2 == Human Nonverb |
3 == Non Articulate 4 == Responsive 5 == Reserved |
6 == Full Converse 7 == Initiate Quiet 8 == Initiate Loud 9 == Chatty |
Roberta saw that both ‘maid A’ and ‘maid B’s settings–they weren’t even given proper names–were as follows:
| Meta |
05 |
Doll |
| Sexdrive |
01 |
Private Only |
| Mood |
10 |
Love |
| Voice |
00 |
Mute |
“To think that you could adjust someone’s personality like this,” Roberta said, “without that person’s say so.” She shook her head. “And there’s going to be an amusement park filled of these mindless slaves made to work there for the rest of their lives?”
“Your displeasure is so noted.” He then motions to the two sleeping maids. “I can attest to them not being mind-wiped, that much I know. Even I have my limits, and I frown on erasing people’s minds. It took some doing to get them in those suits, of course, but after that they're pretty much acting in their own free will. They flat out know what would happen to them if they came back to the lab, in this form or as their own.I know enough that the sponsors of that lab do not take failure lightly.” He then sported a devilish grin and tapped some keys on the computer. “Besides, I knew what they do to the unforuntate souls they put in those kig suits.”
In a few moments, the two doll-like girls started to move. They were a bit sluggish, as if they’ve woken up with someone on top of them and they wanted them to get off. Then their chests rise, their breasts jutting out in some erotic pose. At first they protested, but as they started to wiggle they’re rumps, they felt their will to resist leave them and started to grind their hips and gasp for breath, all without making a single sound, not even their breathing. Roberta’s eyes were in a mix of surprise, anger, and ‘oh yeah, they would!’ as she could sense they’re becoming very much turned on. In fact, by the time they had their eyes and mouths wide open and their backs arced, she was certain they would–
By the time she turned to Pippkin, he clicked another key.
The two maids sexual gyrations stopped and they slumped back into their trunks, their bodies inert and their minds asleep.
“I never let them finish.” Pippkin said. “The bloody perverts.”
“I don’t think that should be proper for an amusement park, Mister Pippkin.”
Pippkin smiled. “You should see the private things Scarlet has for me, and she doesn’t need any mind control.” He then sat up. “Nor do you, I can assume. It won’t be proper, and I don’t expect to. I’ll set it so that they’ll see you as your boss and you can do with them as you see fit.”
Roberta looked back at the two doll maids. They looked like offline robots. “I don’t think I can be that cruel to them, even if they do deserve it.”
“I understand. Them being in those suits and stuck in their roles can be a prison enough. They won’t be able to take the suits off, even their faces, and just like me and Scar, they have every bodily function available to them. I usually feed them jail bars that I got from mail order.” He pointed to a cardboard box by the steamer boxes. “Like I said, it is their prison. Just order them around doing what needed doing and put them back in their boxes when you’re done. And if you don’t need them for anything else, fine with me.”
“As long as you don’t try any of this with Melody, it’ll be fine with me.”
Pippkin raised an eyebrow at Roberta’s stern, yet awkward, pause. He then smiled. “That’s completely impossible, my dear. You see my host won’t let me.” He then winked. “Which would answer your question of where’s Melody’s mother all this time.”
Roberta’s jaw dropped. “You’re actually Penny?!”
With that, he laughed as he reached for his neck. There was a bit of effort, but then he managed to pop off his head to reveal another face inside the headfur. It was a woman with her brown hair tied back.
Roberta recognized her. “Seems like a perfect hiding place."
“That’s why I chosed it. I’ve gotta admit, these HFL costumes do get unnerving to me as well, the way they warp minds and all. And I have to admit, putting them in those suits just to give them a taste of that?” She nodded. "That was solely my idea.”
Roberta saw a healthy glow in Penny’s eyes. She didn’t appear mind controlled or wiped at all. “You’re all right in there. I mean you play a brit very well.”
Pippkin heard a door honk. “It’s a lot more complicated than that. I’ll show you later once we get some more time free; me and Scarlet’s needs to investigate something. I’ll leave everything in your care then.” She was about to put back Pippkin’s head back on, but paused to put a hand on Roberta. “I appreciate all that you’re doing for my daughter. I hope me and my partner can earn your trust soon.” As she clicked the head back in palce, there was another car honk. “Oh Buggar’s all. I’m coming Scar!”
Roberta nodded as she saw Pippkin leave. Her eyes turned to the two maids inert in their trunks. A chill ran down her back, something she didn’t knew she could feel since that time in Conneticut. Granted. These two jerks were asking for it with not only the way they were persuing Melody and Penny (who’s still hiding in that Pippkin suit) but with what she was told what they do to people they put in those suits before handing them off to the lab. Perverts. She could understand Pippkin’s Poetic Justice. ‘No doubt his money comes from some otherwise criminal activities if they weren’t done on jerks like these,’ she thought.
After that thought came this that unnerved her: Is Penny playing as Pippkin all this time, or is there something more about Pippkin—and Scarlet—that meets the eye. Penny doesn’t seem that she’s been brainwashed or anything, but the character she was playing is too realistic to be someone pretending to be a British Gentleman. After a pause, she resolved herself to let Penny pop her head out and tell her in time.
She then turned to the maids, wondering what to do with them. She never had a cruel bone in her body, nor did she ever wanted to be cruel to anyone. This was the first time she had an exception to that. As much as it frightened her, a bit, she knew it needed to be done.
She adjusted the macros to 7-teach, and mood to 5-frightened, and then found the button that woke them up. The maids' eyes blink open wide. They saw a cross-looking Roberta in her maid uniform with her hands on her hips, and they got out of their cases, stood and cowered before her.
She glared at them both. "Now listen up!" she announced. "You answer to Mister DuCaine. You now also answer to me! There are several rerasons for this. First of all..." She switched to the loudest setting to her voice she dared. "I NEVER TRIED TO KIDNAP INNOCENT PEOPLE! Second, I have the largest apron. Third, I'm paid, you're not! Do you understand?"
They nodded timidly.
"So you accept me as your boss?"
They bowed prostrate in front of her, trembling in abject fear.
"I see we have an agreement then." She tapped on the laptop. "Here's your reward."
She programmed in macro 90-temp sexdrive 5-hyper private, then macro 91-temp mood 9-sultry. She then found and activated that memory Pippkin gave them earlier. Roberta tried not to scour as, as silent and soundless as ever, they ground their hips again, arched their backs, and even started to fondle themselves. Roberta stood by with veiled disgust as they became hotter than a Florida beach in summer! Their nipples stretched and poked under their blouses, and Roberta would swear that she saw wet marks under their skirts. Unlike Pippkin, Roberta let them get off, as a reward for their subservience. She waited until they climaxed like volcanoes, their bodies stiff and twitching in a mind blowing release. Once the massive orgasm subsided, they slumped down to the floor spent and exhausted, They're eyes half-closed and their chests breathing heavily.
Roberta reseted their mood to happy, sexdrive to private only, and macro to doll.
"Stand up," she commanded, and they did so, their everlasting smiles returning. They didn't have the romance in their always downcast eyes, but rather a state of contentment that had just a bit of Stepford in them. Again Roberta felt a bit unnerved, but again, she felt that this was an exception. Like Pippkin said, they did deserve it.
"You two clean yourselves off, and then stay here," she said, knowing that they won't as much as budge from where they're at, "until I need you." She then walked out the room.
She noticed a large crate in another room. Lifting the lid off, she found several airtight packets like the kind you use when going through the airport. Quite a few of the packets were empty, proving to Roberta that there was more in the crate before she arrived. "I bet Scarlet 'commendeedred' all the decent stuff for herself," Roberta commented out loud.
Most of the remaining packets contained some sort of cloth, except for one. It contained a stainless steel torso, inside of which were more stainless steel pieces. When worn properly,they would make the wearer look like something out of a Sorayama illustration. "I'm saving this one for later!" She opened another packet, and found a red silk cheongsam dress in it with exceptional embroidery. Opening a third packet, she found a catgirl costume, complete with full mask, mitts, and booties.
Trying on one of the mitts,she felt something in the hand area. She flexed her hand and, to her surprise, out popped titanium claws with diamond tips!
Roberta gasped. "Definitely not child safe! I seriously doubt this was meant for 'Onstage', as Melody would say."
She put the costumes back in the packets. She then looked at the crate, noting that it was a perfect cube, she had an idea: Looking around the apartment, she found the 'handyman'closet. Not only were there tools inside, but also paint and brushes. Taking stock of the paint and brushes, she knew her idea was workable.
"Come here you two," She said, loud enough for the two maids to hear her. In mere seconds, they walked up to the room she was in with the crate, their hands in front of their hips, their eyes closed and bowed, and their smiles ever so present. Their skin, still plastic and smooth, looked like they'be rinsed the sex from them, and their dress has been pressed and dried.
Roberta ordered them to take everything out of the crate and store it in another room. Neatly. Then she ordered them to stain the crate, inside and out. She also warned them that, if they got messy, she would send them out to be cleaned-in the Lab!
Once they got started, she left them be to find Melody, whom her senses have detected have just woken up.
She found her in the kitchen, in a blue leotard and brown tights, and the now-constant ballet slippers tied with care. She has served herself a bowl of cereal. "Morning, Roberta. I take it you've seen the maids."
Roberta nodded. "We've met. One word: Freaky!"
"Tell me about it," Melody said. "Kinda freaked me out as well when I heard of it as well. I'd be worried about it more if Pippkin wasn't using those suits to punish those bad guys. What really got me to agree with Pippkin's thinking is this little tidbit."
She looked back and fourth, as if there was anyone in the room that would be hearing her. And then whispered over to Roberta something that even she couldn't believe: "They had one of those for me."
She then leaned back with a look of fear in her eyes. Whatever or not it was authentic or something a kid would show would be up to debate at a later time.
"It seems too much like something they'd do," Roberta said.
"We still have that suit. Maybe Mister Pippkin and Scarlet can figure out something to do with it. But that was what made me want to help the two out." Melody took a sip of orange juice, and looked up thoughtfully. "I'm wondering. Roberta, what kind of a Magical Girl would you see me as? Just curious."
Robera"I was mostly educated in Anglo-American culture.I don't know much about your anime"
Melody smiled, "Looks like I have to teach you some things. I hope I've got some more DVDs for us to watch."
Roberta tapped on her forehead. "There may be a quick way for me to learn." She peels down a flap of her forehead, revealing a CD/DVD player. "I can download a disk, then practice what's on it. Fortrunitely, I have learned japaneese."
Melody blinked. "Whoa. Having that on your forehead's gonna take getting used to."
Roberta wasn't through with startling Melody as she popped open one of her thumbs. "I also have gadgets on my fingers." Roberta said, reveling a USB port. "What? Never heard of a thumbdrive before?"
Melody eventually got her jaw back in place. "What else can you do?"
Flipping up her forehead flap, Roberta projected a three dimentional map of Kissimme on the tabletop. "I call this 'holo-power!' " Then, she changed to a realistic holo-image of Melody in her Alice outfit.
Melody looked at the almost realistic recreation of herself and reached out to touch her. "Wow."
"Just an illusion," the holographic 'Alice' said, in the voice from the Disney movie no less. "It's gotten me out of a lot of tough situations.including that night with you and your mother."
Melody beamed. "I wonder if we can use that, or something similar."
"It's generated by the Holo-Crystal. Fortunately,I know how to make and program one."
Melody clapped her hands. "That's great. Let's see if we can research for other things to use."
"Maybe mounted to the buckle of your utility belt. Or on one of your bows."
With that, Melody got up to put her dishes in the dishwater. "Well, my costume's cleaned and hanging in the wardrobe. You can figure out where to put it and find out more to pick up while I do my next lesson, okay, Roberta?"
"I'll see you in the studio then," Roberta said as Melody got up and headed to the other apartment.
After Roiberta ate her own breakfast,she checked on the freak maids. They were busy staining the crate. The strong smell permeated the room.
"For pity's sake, you two! Open the windows!"
The maid-roids stopped painting and went around the apartment opening windows, while Roberta shook their heads, wondering how idiotic they had become.
When they opened the last window, they went back to staining the crate. And Roberta went back to the studio.
Melody was there, was practicing to 'Ballet for Beginners'.
Roberta found volume one of Saint Tail, and popped it into her disk player. She closeed her eyes and pluged her ears.
After a few minutes, Roberta asked Melody, "You asked me earlier what kind of magicgirl I see you as. How about you? Do you really see yourself as a girl Robin Hood?"
Melody stopped and smiled. "Why not? Returning to innocent people what was stolen from them is good, right?"
Not knowing what to say,Roberta dropped the question.
When Melody finished her practice, Roberta asked her, "As you know, the skinsuits are programmed with a cetain personality and role. What if you could switch between them?"
Melody asked, "What do you mean?"
"This morning, Mister Pippkin showed me that his host is your mother. With his head on, he's Pippkin. With it off, she's your mother."
"I know. Those two showed me that trick a lot. Good thing they're friends."
Roberta nodded, even if it is just for Melody. "I've thought of something. You can help Mister Pippkin, Scarlet, and myself design a heroic personality for that skinsuit, replacing the no doubt perverted one it has currently. Then, normally, you're Melody Roberts. But,when you're in costume, you have the more heroic personality of, say, Magical Girl Melody-chan. I might be able to adapt whatever they intended for your head into, maybe, a visor, to protect your identity and eyes, and incorperate high tech sensors."
Melody squeeled! "That would be terrific, Maiden Roberta!"
"Rest up a bit, then I'll take you to the complex's pool. But first,where is that skinsuit?"
Melody showed her the suit put in a side room next to Pippkin's office. "He wanted this to eventually be a lab to figure out how the lab's technology works. So far there isn't much in there, Just a box containing what the thugs brought with them . . . and hey, what's with all these costumes."
"The two maids must've put them here. Oh well. Here's the suit I was looking for."
Roberta picks up the smaller version of the skin the two maids wore, and nods to Melody. As she goes off to rest up, Roberta plugs in it's USB port, and checks it's programming.
The first thing Roberta has to get through were the proccessors. She finds something eerily familiar about them....
Her disgust rises to full boil as she sees the personality. As it could be expected, it could only be described as "kinky Lolita;" sweet and obedient by day, sexually active by night.
Roberta was appreciating Pippkin's idea of justice all the more with each passing day. Whatever or not she was comfortable with it was another thing altogether.
Roberta scanned the programming language for reference. She hoped that the suit can be tweaked so that Melody's core personality can show through the skin without much, if any, change to it.
By this time, Melody had awoken from her rest, still in her blue leotard, brown tights, and ballet slippers. Roberta came in. "Melody, put on a bathing suit, and get a towel. It's pool time!"
"Okay, Roberta," Melody said as she skipped into her closet, cosed the door, then emerged wearing the kind of swimsuit competitive swimmers wear, in a Disney Princess print. Meanwhile, Roberta had changed into a shorty wetsuit. Melody looked quizzicly. "Can you swim, Roberta? Won't you get waterlogged, or short out?"
Roberta smiled. "Don't worry, I'm sealed. And, my builder taught me to swim. Said it was a basic survival skill."
As they pass through the breezeway from the office parking area to the pool, Roberta notices that the building on the left has large windows that face the pool, but is empty. She makes a note to ask about it. The pool itself was backward L shape, with the shorter part on the far end to her right. In front of them was the shallow end, and the stairs to get in. The far end was ten feet deep. Just to her right, was a large, round hot tub.
Both Roberta and Melody descended the stairs into the shallow end of the pool.
"Let's start with a lap of freestyle swimming," Roberta said, "just to the end and back, and move on from there."
Melody did, with Roberta swimming beside her.
They kept at it switching to different strokes, until Melody got a leg cramp.
"Guess I'm not used to swimming," Melody said as Roberta helped her get to the side of the pool.
"Well, I didn't know if I was pushing you too hard or not," Roberta said as she rubbed the sore leg. "I apologize."
"That's all right," Melody said, "I wanted to train anyway."
"True," Roberta said as she carried her to the hot tub, "but I didn't want to push you too much. Seen too many families living through their kids, harping on them with sports and all that."
"Ah." Melody nodded. "I get it."
As they relaxed, they noticed a well dressed asian man hang a poster in the breezeway next to the mailboxes. He noticed them and came over. "Beautiful day,isn't it?"
"It is," Roberta replied. "What did you just hang up?"
He unrolled a second poster. "Pastor Steve Badger is having a revival meeting at theValencia Community College, Oceola next week. His meetings at M I T, Stanford, and NeoGizmoTec have become legends! He really knows how to get to the college and professional crowd!" He was so exited, he looked as though he could walk on the water in the hot tub they were in!
Roberta asked, "Can anybody come to this?"
"Certainly! Anybody's welcome! Just go down Vine Street, past the railroad tracks!"
Once the man left, Melody asked Roberta if she knew him?
Roberta looked around, then whispered to Melody, "I do. Steve Badger is my builder!"