Waring Sisters-Act 2

[RancidInsanity]

Waring Sisters-Act 2

It took a few minutes for Colen to get over the robot's appearance until the thought, “Ok. Now what?” finally slipped into his mind. After a little bit he found a circle on the back of her neck you could hardly even see, he pressed it. It went in and came back out and the robot’s eyes opened wide. Colen didn’t know what to do. The robot’s eyes changed from dark yellow to a greenish-blue and she spoke aloud, “Hi. My name is Sophie.” in an overly perky voice. Colen was startled and tried to speak but he couldn’t get any words out. “Sophie” just stood there and looked at him, a slight pleasant smile on her face. Colen finally spoke, “Who are you?” Sophie replied, “I am Sophie. Model Number 217300. Didn’t you order me?” Colen then said, “Well yes but….but you just are so…” “Real?” Sophie interrupted. “Well what do you do?” Colen asked. “Anything you want me to do’’ replied Sophie. “Well what would be really nice is if you beat Timmy Kendriz at the arcades” said Colen sarcastically. “I can do that.” Sophie said “Just take me to this “arcade” and I will do my best to complete my task.” Colen was about to speak but stopped he knew Timmy would still be there but how would he explain Sophie to his mother? He had an idea, “Sophie, could I get you to go back into that bag?” “Sure.” Said Sophie sweetly. He successfully dragged her down the stairs and told his mother he was going to go to the park instead of the arcade to work on his science project.

When Colen’s house was out of sight he removed the bag covering Sophie. She just smiled as she followed him to the arcade, which, was only a few blocks a way (that’s why they were walking). When Colen and Sophie entered the arcade everyone froze and started at Sophie. She was the most beautiful thing ever to walk into an arcade full of rejects. The clerk running the place who was a young woman right out of high school was used to being the center of attention when the people weren’t playing games, she looked as if she had just been slapped in the face, like some one had illegally entered her territory. Sophia said, “So where’s this arcade?” “Your standing in it” Colen said slightly amused.

Colen lead her over to an old “Pong” system to see if she had any skill or not. Colen said instructively, “Now watch me play, then you can try.” Sophie watched quietly and intensively as Colen played his game of Pong. Once Colen had lost he said, “Alright your turn.” Sophie said, “Ok. Let me get connected.” A small snake-like wire slid out of the back of her shirt and plugged in somewhere in the back of the pong machine. Sophie then said in a more robotic voice, “Downloading Pong system drive……Download complete.” Sophie started playing and to Colen’s surprise she was even better than the computer! Out of 10 games she won all of them.

Colen then marched her around to all the other arcade machines and Sophia would download them and demonstrate she had mastery of them. By Now everyone’s attention was on Colen and this mysterious vixen who could beat all the games. Then Timmy Kendriz walked in. He looked around arrogantly although he did look impressive with The Omegas behind him and his girlfriend, Jodi Croft at his side. Timmy immediately walked over to the crowd, which parted for him to see Colen playing a game of Xenophobe with Sophie. He said to Colen, “I just got back from an Orange Julius and guess what? I’m going to beat you!…again!” He then put on a fake laugh and the rest of the gang laughed with him until he snapped his fingers.” “So Colen, where’s the rest of the Solars? You can’t expect to beat me and the Omegas with just yourself.” “I don’t need them, or me” said Colen “You can face my new friend here Sophia.” “Her? She doesn’t even have an official win/lose record card from the arcade!” said Timmy. “But I’ll tell ya what, I’ll play her anyway just to make you run out of here like you did a few hours ago!”

The game was Dig-Dug. It was a test to see which person could last the longest. Timmy went first and boasted at his time of 49 seconds. Then Sophia went she had cleared the whole field of dirt when she turned her back to ask Colen, “Now what?” when she died. Her time was an astounding 5 min. 42 seconds. Timmy looked shattered. He quickly and quietly left the arcade with the Omegas and his girlfriend, Jodi Croft, all scratching their heads. The small crowd surrounding Sophie went crazy. All the people told the manager, an older man who loved games, what happened and he seemed ecstatic, “Oh thank you so very much mam! It’s been an embarrassment for this arcade to have that jerk as our champion. Here’s your official score card and I here by declare you our new Arcade Champion!”

[Baron]

Thanks a lot for this installment, RancidInsanity - now I'm going to be spending the next day or two trying to FORGET the time I passed the 3 billion mark playing "Joust" at the Quickie-Mart {yes, complete with a person of Middle-Eastern descent behind the counter} near my high school!!!!!

I had half the upperclassmen gunning for me in the halls for two solid months afterwards trying to figure out how the hell I did it - or, more frequently, trying to "dump my books" or otherwise hassle me because they were jealous of my gaming ability.

Back then, the only thing worse than being beaten by a "geek" was being beaten by a girl - and where I grew up, the girls who could pull off such a feat weren't pretty OR plugged in...........

A couple of footnotes: this particular "geek" began to blossom shortly after my Joust victory: and all of the then-nondescript girls who shared my outcast status blossomed into lovely {and in many cases, STUNNING} women after high school - many of whom I wound up dating.....................