The Girl Who Was a Number: Chapter 10

     It was the day after Digit's first day at Fairy Incorporated, and she was already worried that it might have been a mistake to even try this crazy plan to spy on Fairy in the first  place, but she soldiered on, deciding that day to take up an acquaintance on an offer to hang out. She had nothing better to do after finishing up her relatively simple tasks for the day, so she went to room A-05 and knocked on the door. She had butterflies in her stomach when waiting for an answer since she was quite awkward with meeting new people. Most of her life she only knew mainly other clones and that one sadistic Genesystems employee, Simone , so she certainly lack several basic social skills.

     Soon there was answer to the knocking. "Daisy, nice to see you again. I did not think you would actually show up so soon." Said Ayami, opening the door for Digit.

     "Well I mean I finished my mission assignment for today and it's still early, so I thought I'd come over and hang out for a while. Did I come at a bad time?"

     "No, you are perfectly fine. Come on in."

     Digit certainly wasn't in Florska to make friends, but she figured she needed some sort of human interaction and she thought Ayami seemed nice. She hadn't even told the others that she was a Petoriyacowa yet since even though she partially felt like she should, it also felt almost wrong to rat her out like that. She did however, inform them that the 'clones' of Fairy Incorporated were most certainly not really clones. The confirmation was nice, but it wasn't much of a surprise to anyone because of how vastly different they all seemed to look.

     "So how did your mission go?" Ayami asked."

     "Pretty smoothly," Digit replied. "It was pretty simple really."

     "Hehe. You seem pretty confident."

     "Ha... Yeah, I guess so."

     "So Daisy, have you seen any good movies lately?"

     "Erm... No. I don't really watch that many movies. I've only really seen a few," Digit said, but actually meant that she had never really had much of an opportunity to watch many movies, though she had always wanted to be able to watch movies.

     "How about that one with the hypnotist woman who fights the all-female group of beautiful ninja girls? It is called 'Hynotist Vs. Kunoichi: Ninjutsu Do My Bidding' and it is one of my favorites. It is the sequel to 'Hypnotist Vs. Alien Matriarchy: Abra Kablamo!' but I did not like that one as much since I prefer humans as the villains."

     "So what you're trying to say is that there is a series of movies about a hypnotist that fights groups of evil scantily clad women? "

     "Well... Yes. She hypnotizes them and does other crazy magician things and stuff like that. It is really fun, and they are making a third 'Hypnotist Vs.' movie right now. The next one will be called, 'Hypnotist Vs Third Reich: Mein Hypnazis' and it is going to have time traveling Nazis from an alternate dimension where they were all women as the villains this time! The plots are really weird, but also really fun. I have the DVDs for the first two movies. Do you want to watch them?" She seemed excited at the prospect of sharing these films with Digit, and who was she to disappoint her?

     "Sure. Why not?"

     "Great. Let us watch them then." Ayami looked through her movie collection and picked out the two films, finding them fairly quickly and they watched them together.

     The movies ended up actually being surprisingly enjoyable. Like Ayami had said, they were pretty weird and silly but they were also immensely entertaining. They also happened to spark plenty of discussion. While Ayami preferred  "Hynotist Vs. Kunoichi: Ninjutsu Do My Bidding", Digit much preferred "Hypnotist Vs. Alien Matriarchy: Abra Kablamo!" since she found the plot for it to be better put together and more interesting, found the main character, the hypnotist and magician named Jezebel to be better written in it, and she also preferred the alien women as villains since she found the kunoichi to be bland and one dimensional. Ayami debated against this heavily.

     "What?" she said, "The plot for Ninjutsu Do My Bidding was vital to the whole series!"

     "How?" replied Digit, "Jezebel defeating the kunoichi added nothing to the overall plot in the long run!"

     "But it explored Jezebel's relationship with her boyfriend Daniel so well!"

     "Daniel Shmaniel. He's such a bad character. Jezebel would be way better off with Jonathan from Abra Kablamo. He definitely should have returned for the sequel."

     "Really? Jonathan was such a jerk. Jezebel and Daniel make for one of the best couples in basically any movie ever."

     "You must be crazy! And what about the action sequences? They were so much better in Abra Kablamo. The gunfights were amazing!"

     "The stealth sequences in Ninjutsu Do My Bidding more than made up for it though. Those stealth kills and knockouts were so intimate. It was really cool. And it also made better use of using Jezebel's hypnosis. That part where she hypnotizes that one ninja to give her her clothes? That part was an instant classic! That one was definitely my favorite part."

     "But what about when the aliens use their technology to-" There was suddenly a knock at the door. "Oh, who's that?"

     "Oh, that is probably Levy. She is a friend of mine, my commander, and we also share this room. She must have forgotten her key-card or something like that. Hang on a second, I should go let her in," Ayami then rushed to the door to let this 'Levy' person into the room.

     'Levy' turned out out to be a familiar face. It was the the commander with the ribbon in her hair from before! Digit wasn't sure what to think about her. She wasn't sure if Levy was a bitch, Daisy was a bitch, or maybe both, but either way Levy was sure to give Digit a hard time. The main thing she was wondering at that moment though, was what she was doing in Ayami's room.

     "Daisy?" Levy questioned after greeting Ayami with a twinge of annoyance in her voice, "What are you doing here? Trying to get acquainted with your new squad-mates maybe?"

     Ayami looked to Digit, "Squad-mates?" she said, "You never told me you were assigned to be in Levy's squad too! That is amazing!" 

     "Um... Yeah," Digit said sceptically.

     Levy shifted the subject a bit with, "Well it's good that you're here anyway. We're supposed to patrol in groups of three now since the old system caused too many problems. The gist of it is that I'm going to need you both to accompany me on our patrols until further notice, got it?"

     "Uh, yes ma'am," said Digit, slightly apprehensively.

     On the other hand, Ayami was clearly much more into this idea, saying, "Wow, I get to go on patrols with two of my friends now? How exciting!"

     "Since when is Daisy Dostoyevski of all people your friend anyway?" asked Levy.

     "Uh... We, kinda just met recently. Only Yesterday actually," Digit said.

     "Ugh," Levy said, "Maybe you should stop being so trusting of new people you just meet, Ayami." The look on her face suggested that she wanted to say something even more venomous regarding 'Daisy', but didn't want to upset Ayami too much.

     "Oh, please do not be like that, Levy," Ayami Said, "Daisy is a nice person. We just watched some movies together. Want to join in? We could watch that one anime about the girls in giant robots."

     To Digit's surprise Levy replied, "Darn it Ayami, you know I'm a sucker for that one. Fine, I'm in."

     After marathoning most of the series together, made incredibly awkward by Levy's immense disdain for her, Digit returned to her room dumbfounded.

     "What a visit that was..." She thought.
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     Starting her third day in Florska early in the morning, Digit received a call from Nicole and Maxine once again. 

     "Hey Digit, so in a few I'm 'bout to head out to Genayama to visit the Maxicorp base. Yay me, huh?" Nicole said unenthusiastically. 

     "Huh? Why?" asked Digit.

     Maxine chimed in with a twinge of smugness in her voice, "Well my dear Digit, I know you have been keeping some captives for quite a bit now and your friend Nicole has expressed some discontent about taking care of the three. ...So of course your greatest and most powerful ally, Maxine Anderson is here to help you out."

     "Oh shut it," said Nicole, "What she means is she's taking the Fairy bitches off our hands."

     "And don't worry, we won't kill them. They'll be fine. We just thought we could take care of your pretty little hostages more easily than you could," Maxine added.

     "What are you going to do with them then? We weren't even all too sure of that," Digit asked.

     "I haven't thought it through much either. Honestly though after all this Fairy business is said and done we might as well just let them go. Not like they could do much to hurt us then. If I'm lucky though, maybe I can convince them to join Maxicorp or use them as bargaining chip if anything goes wrong."

     "Yeah, yeah, yeah," Nicole said, "Anyway Digit, we just wanted to let you know what's goin' on. Fill you in and all of course. Good luck, buddy. See ya soon! Oh! And before I go, Ken wanted to wish you good luck too. Hang on a sec'."

     There was a rustling as Nicole handed the communicator over to Kenshiro.

     "Heya Digit!" Ken said.

     "Hi Kenshiro. Nice to talk to you."

     "I already told ya, bud. Call me Ken."

     "Oh yeah, sorry Ken."

     "It's all good. Anyway, I just wanted you to know the girls and I are with you, okay? We're on your side and we're doing everything we can to help out, even if it isn't much. Stay brave out there, all right? We're all counting on you!"

     "Oh... Thanks. That means a lot."

     "Well I know you've got a busy time ahead of you. I'll let you get right to it. See you soon, friend!"

     "O-Okay... Bye!"

     "Toodles," Maxine added in, having still been there the whole time.

     And with that they ended the call. 

     Soon later, Digit attended her patrol for the day. This was her first time having to patrol with Levy and Ayami, so it was sure to be an abnormal one.

     "Hey!" Levy Yelled as soon as Digit approached.

     "Uh... Yes commander?" Digit replied.

     "You're late."

     "What? I'm right on time!"

     "Don't talk back to me! ...Ugh, whatever. I'm supposed to give you one of these." She handed Digit a tube of lipstick.

     "Uh, lipstick? Why?"

     "It's not just any lipstick. If someone's wearing this lipstick and someone else puts their finger up up to her mouth sensually, she'll faint instantly."

     "How?"

     "What do you mean how?"

     "How does it work? I don't get how something like that exists."

     "Erm... Science!"

     "But I mean how does a lipstick render someone unconscious? Why does it have to be a finger? Why does it have to be sensually? How does it-"

     "Shut up! It just works, okay?"

     "Fine, but can you at least tell me why we are using it?"

     "Listen, I'm not a fan of this pervy stuff either, but it has it's uses. We could put some on our fingers and press them up to an enemy's lips or something like that."

     "So why do we have to wear it? Isn't that just giving us an unnecessary weakness?"

     "Well that's obvious! It's clearly because-  Um... That Is actually a really good question if I'm being honest here."

     "Simple!" Ayami chimed in, "It is very fun!" She grinned stupidly and pressed her index finger to Levy's lips.

     "Ayami wait, wha-" Levy said before collapsing to the ground.

     Digit's jaw was practically on the ground. "Ayami... Ayami why did you... W-Why the heck did you just you just knock out our commander?! Right before patrols no less?!"

     Ayami was blushing a bright red, "I-  ...I honestly was not thinking straight. S-sorry..."

     "D-don't apologize to me!" Digit said, panicking.

     "It will be fine. There is no need to worry I am sure of that. Levy is my best friend, and this kind of thing has happened before anyway. I doubt she would hold this against me."

     "What?! This is a common occurrence for you?!"

     "Well not this particular situation, but similar things have- You know what, nevermind! Just help me get her back to our room please?"

     "What?! No, I won't help you do tha-"

     "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase!"

     "F-fine... I guess."

     So the two of them carried Levy back to her room and luckily enough, no one noticed and nothing was damaged except for Levy's pride.

     Thus ended another very odd day at Fairy Incorporated.