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Chapter Four: Pretty in Pink

  Content Warnings: Transphobia, wasting away, sickness

  Saturday, September 16th, 1752.

  As Pump Up the Jam continues to py, Zach says his goodbyes to Alia and Ashleigh as he goes with Ben Franklin to the newspaper house.

  “Sorry for not coming in the past couple of days, I-“ Zach starts to say as he and Mr. Franklin begin the walk back to the city.

  “Ah, don’t fret, young Zachary, I too have been led astray by such a beautiful maiden, now, is she betrothed to anyone” Ben replies.

  Back at the house, Alia finds her way back to the couch, accidentally sitting on Emoria’s tail and apologizing to her while she hissed right back at her and went back to sleep. Ashleigh is just standing there in pce processing what just happened.

  Zach’s boss is Benjamin FranklinHe drank from one of Ellie’s mugs. Ellie’s funny mugs. The mugs with the dark trans jokes.Now wondering if Ellie’s joking about a basement was a joke or not. Not that she’ll ever know Ellie might as well be in a parallel universeYet there is one thing that comes back to her mind, especially after looking at Zach right before he left with that creepy historical figureThat mug must be cleaned, sanitized and burned."So he's one of us, right" Alia asks Ashleigh as she takes the mug from the table and heads to the kitchen sink, and Alia tries to find the remote, but fails to do so, so she grabs the translocationer and scans the tv and enter a setup screen.

  "Who is?" Ashleigh answers while clearing the novelty mug half-filled with water, pouring dish soap all over it and just setting it in the sink to be sealed with ter. Much much ter.

  Then she remembered the everything will reset in the morning as it nothing happened, so best not to think about that mug and who drank from it for the rest of the day and the coming night

  "Zachary" Alia replies, finishing the setup on the translocationer remote, turning on the TV and using the quantum translocation remote to change the channel to a show called "Gaxy Warriors"

  "Oh you see it in the ey- what are you watching, and what the hell did you do to my TV?”

  "This is 'Gaxy Warriors' the best show in the multiverse" Alia answers.

  "This looks and sounds familiar. Way too familiar ” Ashleigh says with a hint of suspicion.

  “Huh, that’s weird, that show never transmitted to your universe, or any other than its universe of origin, I used the translocationer to transmit to the tv usi-" Alia starts

  "I don't even want to know how it's compatible with AirPy. Continue" Ashleigh says while getting her iMac started. As the iMac turned off with the transdimensional shift, she needs to turn it back on after each reset.

  As the iMac completes its startup and after Ashleigh logs in and catches up.wait she has nothing to catch up with she read this the first morning she got there and the internet resets to the internet of February 7th 2026, and will always be February 7th 2026. Ashleigh then opens up her media drive remotely on the media box and opens up a folder that says ‘Power Rangers Season 24 and then begins to py one of the files. Alia continues "Well this is a show in a universe that has Power Rangers" Alia says only for Ashleigh to say

  "Power Rangers" at the same exact time and Ashleigh shows Alia part of a scene from 'Power Rangers Ninja Steel.

  The Power Rangers episode shows the exact same setup and lines shown on Alia's interdimensional transmission. Both the iMac and TV seemingly mirrored dispying the same thing only one’s a interdimensional transmission, the other a TV show from 2017.

  "Oh, well whatever" Alia says. "It's just a coincidence."

  "Mmmmhmm, anyhoo, Yes, I do notice it on Zach's eyes." Ashleigh says coming back to the conversation before Alia turned on the TV.

  "Should we tell him?" Alia says

  “No. This is something Zach needs to tell us, if he ever does. It needs to be on his own time.”

  Ashleigh continues “Even if he did tell us there wouldn’t be enough estradiol here…wait, wait…” Ashleigh runs to her medicine drawer and takes out a vial of her estradiol valerate 200mg/5ml vial.

  "OMG, it reset too. I'm feeling the shot I took a couple of days ago, but it's like I never took anything out. Holy fucking shit! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!”

  There are many thoughts running through her head, She has unlimited estrogen and injection supplies. She can feminize Zach. Someone from the 18th Century. She is however not going to ever feminize Ben Franklin. No. Just no. Nobody in any universe wants that image in their head

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  Wednesday June 17th 1987

  I'm in the past with no estrogen, no progesterone, none of my HRT meds. oh no no no nononononononononononono..."

  Annie is crouched down on the mattress floor having a massive spiraling crashout in the room that Chrissy told her was her room and she never minds the company she gets when there are cuddle sessions inside.

  "What am I gonna do. I was going to do my shot tomorrow. no no no no”

  Zuniper sits down next to her and comforts her.

  "We'll figure something out. This house never leaves a sister in need" Zuniper tells Annie

  "I'm a sister?" Annie asks

  "Of course you are!" Zuniper says cheerfully

  “I’ll see what I can do on securing some estradiol valerate vials, but there are no guarantees and it might not be for at least a week or two” Emily piped in. Emily works for a pharmaceutical supplier and sometimes things get lost. “It’s what I already do for Chrissy and as of a month ago, Zuniper.

  "I...I...I..." Annie blusters out

  Zuniper and Annie hug.

  "Ladies, Chrissy cooked up biscuits and gravy, should get some before they're gone." Missy says from the other side of the door in her Aussie lilt..

  "There we go, let's get you the perfect pick me up for a spiraling tranny, comfort food" Zuniper says as they head out of the sleep and cuddle room.

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  Annie continues her shift at the local 24 hour supermarket.

  Bored out of her mind

  bored as she scans the eggs

  bored as she scans the milk

  bored as she enters the code for bananas

  bored as she’s one of two in the building, the other in the back handing incoming shipments

  bored as she reads the same issue of InTouch again

  bored as she grabs a coke zero from one of the checkout fridges and pay and scans it and drinks the bottle

  bored as she sees an expectant father buy a frozen cheese pizza, pickles and peaches

  bored as she sees her coworker buy himself a Pepsi and a snickers.

  bored as a customer comes in and buys herself a st minute box of condoms

  so bored

  so very bored.

  Ashleigh probably went to sleep. she hasn't replied to my st gif

  no, there she is.

  now she's going to sleep. Annie sees the Ashleigh sent a gif of the Sleepytime Tea Bear.

  Tuesday, Feburary 10th, 2026 00:00

  "Ugh still bored!" Annie says to no one except for a woman in the first aid aisle who overheard her.

  "Wish I charged my old game boy color.”

  An older shopper, a graying trans woman with a very feminine figure underneath a yellow vintage dress underneath a bck leather jacket who looks like she transitioned decades ago walks into the checkout ne with a box of Barbie bandaids and a box of alcohol wipes.

  "Can't believe they have a sister working this te" the woman says

  "I know, I'm supposed to be off and off these shifts, but you know how it is"

  "I do. Oh, my name is Zuniper”

  Zuniper begins with a look of reminiscence

  "I've lived in this area my entire life, had a group of sisters in the te 80s. Good times, good times. Fell apart though in 1989. No, it started to fall apart in the st days of 1987. It's okay, it happens to all communities over time. Gotta stick with each other still. You got anyone?" Zuniper asks

  "I got my girlfriend, I got my cat, I also got community, online and off. It’s a far cry from what I had from before I moved here.” Annie replies, remembering the stares and the rge amount of microtrangressions from the small town she came from

  "Never lose that. Never ever lose that, you hear" Zuniper replies

  "If you lose that you lose hope, we need that hope especially now. Look, for as much as the world can be very cruel to us, it is also very wonderful to us. This could be a much better world, A world where a bird sings as two trans women kiss under the tree on a park bench. A world where a doll doesn’t have to worry about all the people around her. A world where one of us comes out and it’s treated as no big deal because the world has gotten over their delusional view of us transsexuals” Zuniper continues in a voice that has seen lost friends, many wins and many losses. A voice that has seen a friend buried as a lie and not her true self. It’s a voice of pain and triumph.

  “Oh, sorry, you’re not offended but the word transsexual are you?” Zuniper asks in a very concerned and apologetic tone.

  “No, the word is fine, Zuniper, why do they hate us so much?" Annie asks

  "It's because we represent something. True freedom" Zuniper answers with years of experience. She then continues

  "Chrissy told me that before she passed from the disease in '87. I can still taste her cooking, especially her hushpuppies. She went too young. I miss her every day.”

  "I know I'm not supposed to ask, but those band-aids?" Annie inquires

  "Oh, no worries, they're for injections, the alcohol wipes too. they're a godsend"

  "Oh, they sure are, also god had nothing to do with it. Their god is a lowly parasite who can’t even dream of the power the goddesses had. We did all of this ourselves and don't you forget it. Do you know why?” Annie asks and then continues “Because we’re the damn goddesses they tried to kill. We were here before their god and we will outst their god”

  "Knowledge from the younger generation. Love it”

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  A musical knock is heard at the house as the group of trans dies gather to eat biscuits and gravy just after noon.

  "Let me get the door" Zuniper offers before anyone else got up. Chrissy is in the kitchen cleaning up after her cooking and putting the ingredients away.

  It's Jexia in her most fake cheery look and voice

  "Hello Zuni!"

  "How did you get my address?" Zuniper asks

  "Oh, I got it from Mack." Jexia 'cheerfully' replies as she lies out of her peppy fake ass face

  "oh fucking hell, dad." Zuniper mumbles under her breath.

  "I'm here to see Annie and how she's doing"

  "I'm doing fine" Annie replies

  "Okay, here's the deal Ann. I'm an reality warping shapeshifting alien, and you and these sick delusional freaks' rejection of basic biology here and in your home dimension and in countless other ones makes a mockery of us true and honest shapeshifters."

  "I sent you here to separate you from your community of sick freaks, yet you found one anyway?! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!”

  "What do you me-“ Annie begins to say as Jexia stops time

  "No. I fucked this all up, It's too soon for you to find out like this, I just needed to yell at you"

  Jexia finger wiggles her right index and middle fingers and then does a cp.

  In doing so time has reverted back the past few minutes and unfreezes.

  Jexia does not come up to the door.

  Chrissy gets up to get some more gravy for her second biscuit and she staggers and needed to hold on to the wall

  "I'm fine, I'm fine, just got a little dizzy"

  "Hun, you should see a doctor" Emily tells her kindly

  "I'm good, it'll pass."

  Zuniper has a very worried look in her eyes.

  "What's wrong with Chrissy?" Annie asks Emily

  “About a year or so ago, we noticed Chrissy starting to quickly lose weight. It wasn't too long ago that she was as full-figured as you are Annie. Don’t get me wrong, Chrissy still looks beautiful, We all miss the Chrissy that was.”

  "That's a lot of weight loss" Annie replies

  "Yeah, but she refuses to see anyone about it, which I'm sure we both know why, but she's getting worse and worse and principles be damned. We want her to survive the year, outlive the bastards" Julie adds

  "Look sorry for burdening you with this, doll." Zuniper tells Annie

  "You know what they say about trans women where I come from?" Annie asks the group

  "What's that?" Tilly answers

  "We tend to massively overshare everything." Annie tells them as Emoria happily mews while being held by Missy.

  Jexia spies the group through her holographic dispy on her translocationer.

  "Ugh, I can't watch anymore." Jexia uses her translocationer as a cell phone and calls Mack and tells him she quits. Says she’s moving to Wales.

  Jexia hangs up and then points the translocationer to the sky and opens a greenish blue portal, causing a sudden localized gust of wind, and slides out of the 1987 of universe Gagarin-11961-BFA34DE29

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  After changing the TV from Gaxy Warriors to a romantic Christmas movie from a universe from it comes from American Greetings. The movie is pure unadulterated hetslop. It’s about a maid and some rich guy, she’s really not paying attention as she is deep in thought about her name. Alia would be a good name to keep, she loves that name, she does but she also thinks, more and more 'That's his name not my name’

  Alia points the translocationer to Ashleigh's rotating spiral bookshelf.

  Now viewing the holographic dispy we see a list of names. Names like Nicole, Kristy, Taffi, Emily, (way too many ways to spell) Kaitlin, Jacqueline (oooh that’s a good one, she thinks) Cora, Zoe, Madison (Madisyn?), Kira, Patsy, Emma, Terra, Saoirse, and so on and so on.

  "Alia, did you scan the book of baby names? Wait, OMG are you really thinking of a name?!" Ashleigh comes over and sits excitedly next to Alia giving her her full attention.’’

  "I thought you hated me for you know... this?" Alia replies while making a earth gesture of spinning his finger around to signify everything

  "I do, but I love helping a new girlie out more!" Ashleigh squeals

  "I see. Is helping another woman so important?”

  “The most important thing. We do not let a sister do this alone. No one is on their own, even if a sister is a reality warping shapeshifting bird” Ashleigh says.

  "I want to stay away from the As"

  "I get that."

  "Your name starts with an A”

  "Yeah, but my deadname didn’t"

  "Deadname?" Alia asks before continuing "Oh, that's clever."

  "I didn't come up with that, Necronym is a good word for it too, not mine either" stated Ashleigh as she walks up to grab a gss from a cabinet above the dishwasher and fill it with pepsi and a bit of ice and grabs a crisp burrito from the Taco Time bag.

  "Still though, clever.”

  As Ashleigh starts the microwave to reheat it a question she have had since arriving in the mid 18th century comes to mind

  "I've gotta ask, why do I still have internet, power, and plumbing?"

  "Because I fucked the transfer up in my dysphoric state"

  "Going through the motions like a zombie? Feeling like people saw you but they didn’t actually see you?”

  "Ah, so you know"

  "Quite intimately since I was ten when I had to be sent home from school just about every other day because I just needed to scream in my pillow and lie in bed and cry it all out until I fell into a sad nap”

  "Did it feel like the walls were closing in and it would never stop closing in on you?"

  "Oh yeah, did it feel like you were at a bottom of a well and the water kept rising, and not only was it rising it was increasing in temperature with each passing second, and you kept asking for help only for everyone to not understand you at all, like you were speaking a foreign nguage"

  "a foreign nguage" Alia says at the same time

  "OMG, come here sweetie" Ashleigh pulls Alia into a deep hug

  “I got you, sister, I got you. I don’t think I can hate you anymore.” Ashleigh continues

  As they hug Zachary comes in the door and joins them on the couch...or rather the arm of the couch

  "Hey, Zach, back already? How goes it?" Ashleigh asks

  "Ashleigh, I think Mr. Franklin has found you quite infatuating."

  "Oh no.”

  "He couldn't stop talking about your build, your ample bosom, your soft looking belly and he kept talking about your bu-“

  "ew ew ew ew ew just stop, I get the idea" Ashleigh says as she squirms in her seat as the microwave dings again to remind Ashleigh that her reheated food finished a minute ago.

  While Ashleigh eats her crisp burrito and drinks her pepsi, the three watch the movie.

  "Ugh, even parallel universes have hetslop. You like this Alia?" Ashleigh asks

  "I like it, sometimes you want to watch something feel-good and joyful, you know?

  "No, I get it, but there's better, you know. Ones not so hetsloppy"

  "Ah, found a good one!" Alia excims

  "Oh?" Ashleigh asks while Zach as a confused look on his face

  “What did you find?” Zach then asks

  "Evie. I would like be called Evie."

  "Nice to meet you, Evie. " Ashleigh happily says

  "I like the name." Zach adds.

  “I love the say it sounds” Evie says before he says “Evie” a hundred times in differing lengths.

  Ashleigh adds "Well, let me grab one of those queer Christmas romantic movies. Oh you two are in for a treat. A very unhinged treat”

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  Waking up during the night, Ashleigh walks in the LED strip lighted hallway nearly tripping over Emoria on the way to the bathroom.

  “OMG! Be more careful, little one, I nearly stepped on you"

  As Ashleigh scrolls GreenLeaf she reads leaf after leaf after leaf of bad news from her followers and mutuals.

  "ugh, more anti-trans bullshit, more war bullshit. Just a day that ends in 'y'" Ashleigh compins to herself.

  "oooh, this is cute" Ashleigh says to no one as she reads a cute GLeaf story about a trans superhero named EuphoriGirl. It’s a good story, kinda cliche, standard capeshit.

  By the time she leaves the bathroom nearly a half hour ter with numb legs, she realizes she's going to be up all night and sits on the couch. The clock reading 3:11 in the morning. Emoria leaps up next to her, licks her fur and falls asleep.

  "Lucky cat" Ashleigh mumbles to herself.

  She puts on a lesbian Christmas movie called Last Exmas from her media box.

  "Disaster lesbians should cheer me up as she makes a pot of coffee and grabs the 'NASTY BOYS' mug.

  "I'm afraid to ask Ellie about her time in university" Ashleigh thinks to herself.

  With very few customers tonight, Annie sits at the checkout bored out of her mind again. Bored at the same things she was earlier in the night

  Zuniper left a couple of hours ago after reminiscing about her te sister and her exquisite cooking skills as well as working the diner that closed about a decade ago with her father.

  The conversation turned when Annie mentioned living in the orange house on 4th and Elm. It was the old house that Zuniper and her chosen family lived in from 1983 to 1989 moving in with Chrissy and Chrissy’s mother who died in 1985. Zuniper went for a good half hour talking with her about the house, the good times, the bad times, but the sisters always had each other until they naturally drifted apart after Chrissy’s death and went their separate ways. . They have also exchanged numbers to keep in touch

  Browsing GreenLeaf on her iPad she sees Ashleigh up early posting.

  "Someone couldn't go back to sleep." Annie says to herself

  Annie sees what her girlfriend is posting.

  "She's liveleafing a unhinged disaster lesbian movie, because of course she is"

  Annie replies on GreenLeaf "I love you so much”

  As she does a twenty-something goth trans woman stoned more than a statue on Easter Isnd walks into a checkout line.

  "Oh, she writes the best leaves" Gwen says as she pces the basket full of Monster drinks, the cans the color of the trans pride fg and edible peanut butter chocote chip cookie dough as well as a packet of hot chips on the conveyor belt.

  A sober red-headed trans woman dressed in vintage pastels walks up to the checkout ne and pces a box of froot loops and a half gallon of 2% milk on the belt.

  "Had to grab the queerios!" Tammy says

  "Ah there you are Tammy"

  "I know, walking stereotype" Tammy says to Annie.

  "Eh, many such cases”

  The three women struck up a quick conversation and then they were on their way.

  Ashleigh never finishes the movie as she's fast asleep when Annie comes home a few hours ter with a box of fresh donuts she got from the bakery next to the supermarket after morning shift arrived.

  Annie leaves the donuts in the kitchen and gently guides Ashleigh to bed where Ashleigh falls quickly back to sleep as Annie cuddles her and falls asleep herself.

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  The hallways of the Skippy Memorial Wing at the Charmravenian Quantum Academy clear out in advance of an incoming wormhole.

  In a random hallway a greenish blue portal appears and Jexia leaps out, nding on her feet.

  She walks with a mission.

  Lyssa, another Charmravenian woman sees Jexia returning and her instincts are telling her that her good friend and her crush Alia is in trouble.

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  As the three continue to watch Ashleigh's movie recommendation Evie is coming to a realization.

  She has studied Earthlings for decades. She has studied many types of people. When it came to trans people, she felt a kinship she didn't realize she had until the past decade or so.

  She's scared. She's so scared. She's an all-powerful reality warping shapeshifter. There are civilizations who would think of her as a god.

  A lot of Earth people think of Corbi as a god and have fought holy wars over a student who flunked out a few years ago and had a kid with an teenage Earth girl. Alia knows Corbi as nothing more than a drunk ass jerk who didn’t give a shit about any pnet, dimension or time period he visited.

  Even with being all-powerful. She's scared.

  She's scared of asking a small request.

  She's scared of taking a leap.

  No, THE LEAP.

  She's scared, but she needs to know. She needs to know if it works.

  If there is biocompatibility.

  There's an Earth saying "The next best time is now"

  So Evie asks "Can you pause the movie, Ash, I need to make a request." Evie quietly says to Ashleigh.

  "Sure, what do you want?"

  "Your estrogen. It resets every morning, doesn't it?

  "Yeah it does, so does my syringes, needles, alcohol wipes, and bandaids. Why?”

  "I need to know something, no, I must know something. I need to see if biocompatibility exists. I need to know if it biotranstes from human to charmravenian. I must know if it does

  Ash, I'm ready to start estrogen therapy right now." Evie says confidently with a slight tinge of fear.

  "Are you absolutely sure? It may not work."

  "I gotta try. I must.”

  "By doing this, I can never go home again. If they catch wind, they will chase me across not just this multiverse, but all of them.

  I have to do this because I'm so sick and tired of being in the well. I'm sick and tired of being a nothing inside."

  "Got it. I'll get the supplies ready.”

  While Ashleigh prepares the syringe she says "So I'm just going to give you a third of my dose, see how it feels and next time, I’ll add another third and the one after I’ll give you what I prepare for myself.

  I'm filling the syringe with 0.1ml or about 4mg of estradiol. Is this fine?

  "Yes." Evie answers while waiting on the sofa with her thigh showing

  "Okay, good. You can still back out as this resets"

  No. I need to be myself, even if it doesn't work.”

  “Evie. It will work, I know it will. Now then, I need to disinfect the site with alcohol." Ashleigh tells Evie.

  " I can do it" Evie says as she takes the wipe and wipes her right thigh.

  "Ready?" Ashleigh asks

  "Ready."

  Ashleigh then administers the injection as she says "Time to fly”

  Evie is hoping it breaks through and biotranstes through the gmouring

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  Jexia watches the entire event through her viewscreen.

  “You’re dead to me now, Alia. You’re dead to all of us, sick freak”

  She begins to get up to show her superiors. She quickly sits back down.

  She decides to let everything py out. She has to show this thing, this anomaly, this deluded soul his folly.

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  Chrissy lies completely wiped on the living room couch.

  "Cooking never wiped me out like that before" Chrissy admits

  "We noticed" Missy says.

  "Is it what I think it is?" Annie asks.

  Missy answers "No, we've all been tested a month ago. All negative."

  "It's why we still have the mattress room and cuddlepiles." Zuniper finishes.

  "No, it's something else, but I do not have cancer"

  "You don't know that" Emily replies

  The energy spent arguing completely wiped Chrissy out and she immediately falls asleep

  "Let her sleep, dolls" Zuniper tells everyone.

  "I wish she would let her get tested for cancer" Zuniper quietly says to Annie

  "I'm guessing she has a history with it" Annie asks.

  Her mother. Two years ago. She was the only family member she had after she became Chrissy" Emily answers

  "This was also her house after they moved up from Georgia seven years ago" Emily continues

  "She took Emily and myself in four years ago and it was just us four" Zuniper tearfully says

  "Wait, you work with your dad though" Annie says to Zuniper.

  "I do. We only have a professional retionship left. Was always a good bookkeeper and great with numbers" Zuniper admits, still tearing up a little

  "That sucks. That really sucks" Annie says to Zuniper.

  "It does. It really does"

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  "Okay, Evie tell me how you feel" Ashleigh asks

  "I feel okay, kinda heeheehehehe funny heeheeheheheeehee"

  "It's working, you got the giggles" Ashleigh said to Evie

  "hehehehe omg hehehehe just heeeheehhehehehehehe"

  "Just let it do its thing. You're flying girl!"

  “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE"

  'So, do you want me to make you one" Ashleigh asks Zach

  "No. I'm a man all the way. You couldn't get me to take that. No, I don't think of myself as having curves. nope not me" Zach blissfully says, ignorant of his own egginess.

  "mmmm-hmmm" Ashleigh mmm-hmms.

  I'll keep the option open”

  "Nope. do not keep it open."

  "Says the egg"

  "I am not a product of a chicken, Ashleigh"

  Ashleigh then proceeds to scream into a pillow.

  "Though, I always thought Zoria was a pretty name, I mean I did make it up as a kid"

  Ashleigh continues to scream, while Evie continues giggling away,

  After the giggling died down nearly two hours ter. Evie has the composure to finally speak again.

  "So, I got my answer. It biotranstes and I'm still alive"

  "Gd to hear"

  "I'm also fucking pissed. How fucking dare they deny us this" Evie stated with anger towards nobody and everybody.

  "I know. I know" Ashleigh answers

  "How do you, how does any of us handle it" Evie asks

  "We don't. no matter how together we seem, there is not a single one of us who isn't pissed and none of us is handling it well, but nevertheless, we survive. nevertheless, we thrive. That's all we can do, Evie”

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  Friday, February 27th, 2004

  Universe Tereshkova-11960-FD32198AC2

  A destroyed cityscape after a prolonged battle to decide the fate of Earth and the sor system, but also, and most importantly, the city of Vermillion Cove

  Three magical girls against a very powerful demon sorceress

  Supernova, a three member girl group with the ability to transform into magical girls vs Millennia, a sorceress with great power.

  “So it all comes down to this. You have been nothing but a bother in my side for the past six of your Earth years. Don’t you see you’re outmatched, outgunned, outsmarted. I don’t know whether to admire your bravery or stupidity. Either way, brava, Supernova, brava!” Demoness Milennia gloats

  “Huh, still with the monologuing, that’s the one constant over these years!” -says a bloodied Sparkling Emerald Supernova.

  “Oh, your Chronopheinds and Watchmen are all gone, It’s just you now!” added Sparkling Ruby Supernova

  “Face it, Millennia, you’re time is almost up! Sparkling Amethyst Supernova finishes

  “One st time, girlies?!” Ruby says to her teammates

  “YEAH!” Amethyst and Emerald responds.

  The three women of 22 years of age, touch the back of their earlobes with a specific summoning thought, headset mics shimmering into existence around their heads. They enter a pose as they yell out their transformation passphrase into the sky

  “WITH THE POWER OF STARLIGHT, LET’S SHINE!”

  The three women enter an blissful energy field where they feel the warmth and positivity of both their magical bond and the source of their power, the Supernova Crystals deep in their souls

  As the three transform into their magical girl forms, Millennia begins to say “Oh, girlies, girlies, girlies, your magic is almost used up. Is this the limits of...of...of..." Millennia looks up and Supernova near the end of their transformation sequence then looked up to the sky which is now glowing a greenish blue.

  Then quicker than a millionth of a second, they all knew nothing more. That entire universe now contained in a card.

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  A card Jexia then pces in a portable card shredder and shreds.

  "Test complete" Jexia says quietly to herself as the shredded pieces of card that once contained a vibrant, magical universe full of magical girls falls slowly to the ground.

  ********

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  Evie tries on a closetful of Annie's old vintage and modern dresses from when she had a more smaller figure early in her transition that she kept with her out of sentimentality.

  "I love this pretty pink one" Evie says while going spinny.

  "It suits you, it really does." Ashleigh says.

  Evie tries to gmour it purple, but nothing happens. She then tries to change her hair color to red. Nothing also happens. She tries to gmour up a pair of eyegsses. Nothing happens again either.

  Evie then attempts to turn Ashleigh into a bunny. That succeeds and Evie quickly turns her back

  "Hey! You can warn a dy before you turn her into an animal!" Ashleigh loudly says.

  Evie attempts to go back to her natural form. It fails.

  "Oh no. I'm locked into a form." Evie says in a panicked voice

  "You don't think it's the estrogen" Ashleigh asks.

  Evie summons a medical scanner from hammerspace and scans herself.

  "Unrecognized species." The scanner reads. She scans again, same result. Same for the next twenty scans.

  "Ashleigh, Zach. Who am I now" Evie asks nervously

  “What the fuck am I now?!”

  "You're Evie. That's all you need to be" Ashleigh answers.

  "We can find out together, I've always been a man of learning" Zach answers.

  "Yeah. I'm Evie. That's all I need to be right now." Evie says quietly.

  "Let's see what comes on at random" Ashleigh starts a shuffled pylist from her massive library.

  "Oooh, that's a great one." Ashleigh says as the 1981 version of 'Pretty in Pink' starts to py.

  "To Evie's new beginning!" Ashleigh says

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