The announcent ca while Alexa was having trouble dealing with a bunch of other kids from her class. What did they want you ask?
"Is it true that you were the bastard daughter between an executive and the receptionist?"
"Do you live in the Saintsworths tower?"
"If you are a bastard daughter, then you weren't designed?"
"Were you a mistake? Did soone have you under the table?"
"You weren't planned?"
And so on, and so on. Multiple variations of the sa question, roughly all about her ancestry and about who was her Father and or mother. How she had been raised and where did she grew.
Alexa wasn't sure why they wanted to know about the site of her manufacturing, but then again, humans were weird in and of themselves. But this was getting increasingly weird, Alexa had co to terms with the fact that these particular [Child Stage - Humans] were weird and out of the norm, since compared with the others she had seen so far these behaved more like [Adult Stage - Humans] wearing kids bodies.
And that was a thing to check, too. Could soone do as Alexa and jump their [Consciousness Stream] from their normal body to another? Alexa needed to verify that, if it was viable then she could perhaps get away with changing identities if hers got compromised.
Not that she couldn't do that already...she had done so before actually, since she moved from her original [CRAB] body to this one after making it as an experint, granted she hadn't paid too much attention to the process so perhaps there could be so hijinks in the way if she ever attempted to do that.
"So? Will you answer sothing, or will we need to remind you of your place?" A haughty voice suddenly brought Alexa out from her plans to hijack other people's bodies.
Her place?
They wanted to remind her of her place?
"Hah...hahahahahahahahahah," Alexa couldn't help but laugh aloud at that, "Alexa knows very well what her place is."
It was one of the very few things that Alexa was sure of, what place she held in [Human] Society; it was what kept her awake at night (Not really; she slept like the Alexa baby she was).
"No, I know my place very well," Alexa said smiling, looking down at the [Kid] who had said that.
It was a girl with dirty blonde hair and cyan eyes. Unlike Alexa's clear blue eyes or Alexander's Azure eyes, this one had a pair of eyes that seed closer to green or gray than blue.
Unlike Alexa's blonde hair or Alexanders' almost golden-colored hair, she had dirty blonde. Alexa could roughly imagine what this girl had attempted to do, she was wearing the golden eagle in her ribbon, not directly on the fabric but in a brooch.
"So, do you know your place?" Alexa asked back to the girl.
The girl in question suddenly had her face grow red and Alexa could swear her hair seed to want to move and raise as if she was so kind of cat.
"I am Eris Ashcroft!" The girl almost screeched at Alexa, "I am a proud branch mber of The Glorious Saintsworths!"
...But she didn't hold the Saintsworths na?
"We have been wearing the Golden Eagle for generations; unlike those who fall from grace, we have always been proud, stalwart guardians for the main branch!" So she was a bodyguard? "We protect the glory of the Golden Eagle! Not sothing the daughter of a wench can compare to!"
*Slap*
"Blackthorn!" The girl said glaring daggers at Glory who had return running when this one started going crazy. "You bitch!"
"You would raise your voice to soone who is part of the main branch?!?!" Glory said to the crazy girl, "Are you mad? Do you want your family to be purged that badly?"
Purged?
"Main Branch? The wench's daughter?" The girl said taking a step back as her face turned white, that was an interesting effect, Alexa would try it one of these days, "Her? What are you...?"
Glory let out a breath and sighed, "Of course you wouldn't even check, you are too focused on sucking up from the prestige of other families." Then, she turned to Alexa, "She may look like that, but how many people do you know that have such vibrant hair and pure blue eyes?"
Alexa...didn't think that was such an important thing to focus though? Surely blonde hair and blue eyes weren't that weird...
Not that Alexa had seen many people with this hair color... Besides Alexanders...
Had she seen more people with blonde hair and blue eyes?
She had seen people with blue eyes, and people whose eyes turned azure blue, but she hadn't seen people with blonde hair and blue eyes had she... Besides her...
"...The people with blonde hair and blue eyes are all Saintsworths related?" Alexa asked confused.
"See!" The Eris girl said pointing at Alexa, "How can a Saintsworths be this ignorant of the world! This proves that she is but the daughter of a wench!"
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This girl liked that word too much.
"*Sigh*" And Glory rely sighed again, it was refreshing seeing people sighing and knowing that the cause wasn't Alexa! At least not directly anyway, "Everyone knows that blonde hair and blue eyes are a sign of being a Saintsworths, yeah."
Wait, Glory wasn't defending her?
Betrayal!
"But who would think for the combination of blue eyes and blonde hair to be normal?" Glory asked turning to the Eris girl, "Who would think that wearing blonde hair and having blue eyes is normal?"
What?
Why wouldn't it be normal?
"Soone who has seen these two on a daily basis...or soone who interacted with enough people with these two attributes that they think they are mundane." Alan said finally walking to them while carrying a piece of paper, "Just like how people would think that having blue hair is normal among the civilian populace, even though this hair is proof of being part of the Harmonia Clan."
...how were they even making sure that only people from a certain clan held these types of characteristics?
"[Researched within data stored in Blueprint, found genetic markers tied to hair color and eye color. Host blueprint has a genetic marker that guarantees that she will have golden hair and blue eyes. Human Designation: Alan Harmonia has genetic markers that has increased predilection to blue hair.]"
So they rely tampered with the Blueprint? Wasn't that dangerous?
Not even Alexa wanted to tamper with the base of her [Human Body], granted she modified the appearance using her nanites, but the base of it all, what made Alexa who she was, was sothing she didn't want to tamper at such a fundantal level.
"[Modifications may be the reason for the flawed blueprint.]"
"...Then...she..." The Eris girl said turning to look at Alexa with a new emotion, one she hadn't seen in soone else since li-li. Fear.
"Yes, either she grew up isolated from human society..." Alan said turning to Alexa, smiling at her, "Or she grew surrounded by only mbers of the Saintsworths clan."
"And such a place could only be..." Glory added, standing beside Alexa, one step ahead of her and slightly to stand between her and the Eris girl, "...at their Main Branch, now tell . You who is a proud guard of the Saintsworths, how many places are that only mbers of their Main Branch can be?"
There were places filled with Alexanders? The horror.
"...The...main house...where only people approved by the Young Master can inhabit..." The Eris girl said.
Young Master? Who was that?
"That's right, now...if Alexa grew in that place, then surely she has the blessing of Alexanders. So even if she was indeed the daughter born out of wedlock..." Glory said walking towards the Eris girl, the girl's knees had failed and now she was kneeling on the ground, tears flowing from her eyes, "Nay...even if she was a child picked from the streets, nothing more than a street rat. If she was taken into the main branch, what would she be?"
"....A...True...Saintsworths...A...person...close to...the gods..." The Eris girl said turning slowly to look at Glory, "...soone...who...was born...to....rule..."
Alexa was born to rule? Lies!
She was born to eat Mango! And to be happy. Yes.
"You better leave, and beg your patriarch to be exiled." Glory said, pulling out her phone, "I'll ask my Father to ask yours for so rcy, but you had better solve it fast and leave sooner rather than later..."
Then turning to point around, Glory added, "You are no longer soone to be envied, but soone who can bring glory to whoever brings you to the enforcers after all." Alexa turned to look around, and the other kids' gazes changed.
From one of amusent to disgust, to curiosity and finally they had set up in another emotion that Alexa knew very well, [Hunger].
Only these peoples' eyes weren't focused on food, but on another of their species, and it didn't seem like the Hunger for biomass that Alexa had from ti to ti, but instead was one to take possession of soone.
"...I'll...leave...Teacher!" The Eris girl said aloud.
"Yes?" The teacher person once again manifested from thin air, no one seed to pay attention or even ntion that. Alexa had attempted to keep him at the back of her mind, within her sensors to track, but...
"[SuperVillain Designation: The Theater Master, Tristan De'dicci has not been logged within the sensor database, only ti he was recorded was when host was looking at him.]"
So, Alexa could only record him while she paid conscious attention to him? That was a weird thing to happen.
"I....don't feel well...could I leave?" The Eris girl said, tears already on her face; her appearance was a ss.
"So long your team leader doesn't mind it," The teacher person said turning to Glory, "She was part of your team right? I can permit her to leave, but no one will take her spot."
She was going to participate?
"We will be participating with one mber less?" Alan asked, "We are already going with only four mbers, if we go like this then we will only have three mbers."
What?
"Those are the rules, you are already with advantage since you have one Core User on your team," The teacher person said smirking, "It was deed that Alexandra as a Saintsworths with a physical Core Power would be enough advantage to count for two people, even with her Core Powers sealed."
"She may leave," Glory said, interrupting Alan from answering, "I only added her because she was supposed to be soone to keep Alexa safe, but she isn't what I expected."
Glory turned to look down at the Eris girl, "So she may leave." Then, turning to look at the teacher person, Glory added, "I'll be on the outer ring on our side, Alan will be on the opposite side, and finally, Alexa will be on the court."
What?
"What are the positions?" Alexa asked turning to Glory.
"Then she may leave," The teacher person said turning to the Eris girl, "Run little girl, the school protection only extends so far. While we are preparing to start the event, no student may leave unless we approve of it."
What are the positions though?
"Then..." The Eris girl said with hope in her eyes.
"That is to say, while students can't leave without a teacher's permission..." The teacher person said, smiling evilly, "That doesn't an a teacher can't authorize soone to leave like I did. Say...soone who is part of a clan that wants to increase their position within the Saintsworths Conglorate..."
And just as hope had returned to her eyes, the Eris girl once again fell into despair.
"...I'll...I have to go!" And without even going for her stuff the Eris girl ran out of the room.
So other students attempted to go after her, but got stopped by teachers or other people, only the Eris girl managed to leave like nothing, even to the complaints of the students that had attempted to block her from leaving.
"...let that be a lesson students," The teacher person said turning to the kids near them, "Not everything is what it looks like."
And like that, the teacher person walked away, this ti Alexa didn't let him leave her sight...At least till the teacher person turned around and flashed a flashlight at Alexa, making her flinch.
That was enough for Alexa to close her eyes for half a second, but when she opened them again, the teacher person was once again on the sa spot he had been before.
Way farther than he could reasonably walk in the ti Alexa closed her eyes.
"...so the positions?" Alexa asked once again, annoyed at not being able to understand how the teacher person was doing that.
"The sa as normal dodgeball with so additions." Glory said, turning to Alexa and handing her the piece of paper that Alan had brought. "We have two areas to play with."
The piece of paper had five lines on which to write nas. The piece of paper had four nas on leaving one of the spots empty.
"Now we can cross out Eris, since she is no longer part of the team, that was a miss in our planning." Alan sighed from the side.
"...this doesn't explain the positions." Alexa said, pointing at the piece of paper.
-Outside Offense: Alan Harmonia
-Outside Defense: Glory Blackthorn
-Inside Offense: Alexandra Saintsworths
-Inside Defense: Eris Ashcroft
If anything she knew that Alan would be outside being offensive, and Glory would be outside being defensive, so would those two fight between each other while Alexa was supposed to fight against Eris?
"Unlike the normal version of dodgeball that you know," Glory said taking the piece of paper and pulling out a pen from her blazer, "This one has two active areas to play, inside and outside."
Yeah, unlike the normal version that Alexa knew, totally. Because she totally knew how to play dodgeball...
"Players can swap between outside and inside so long they aren't hit." Glory continued, "In normal dodgeball if you get hit you are out. But on this you only swap from being inside to outside."
"That doesn't an that a team can't lose, you can only swap with soone inside if the one inside accepts. And even that is only allowed to one person per team." Alan added from the side, "The normal version of this only has one person on the outside, but since this one is reduced to be played by five people, we have two outside and three inside."
"And this is the important bit," Glory said pulling the attention back to her, "If the ball hits the floor and there is no one inside then we lose."
Wait..."If Alexa is the only one inside...then if she gets hit then we lose?" Alexa asked, she was alone in the inside after all.
"No, you are only out if no one in your team catches the ball." Glory said shaking her head, "If you get hit, so long Alan or myself catches the ball then you will be fine."
"Then Alexa only needs to dodge and hit the other side?" Alexa asked, wasn't this kind of easy to solve?
"Also no," Alan said this ti, "If the ball hits our court and go to the outside then we lose a point, we start at 3 points, one per player. If we end at zero, we lose too."
...."SO MANY RULES!" Alexa couldn't help but shout her frustration.
"Also if we get hit while being in the outside we will get eliminated permanently," Glory said, " So we can't risk getting hit."
Then...what was their role on the outside?
"I'll be attempting to catch the balls they miss and give them to you." Alan said raising his hand, "My job is to prevent them from saving their teammates."
"And my job is to catch the balls you miss, and attempt to save you if you get hit." Glory said afterward.
"And Alexa only needs to hit the other players and either don't get hit or dodge the ball, right?." Alexa asked for confirmation.
"Precisely." Glory nodded, "Easy, right?"
...No, not easy. It sounded annoying. Who even ca up with these rules? A muscle-ball-loving convict?!?!?
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