Chapter 346: Alexanders is not normal?!?!

“So…” [Fan Girl] turned to look around, there was an awkward silence in the room and Alexa didn’t really understood why, everyone was here! They were supposed to be happy and do [Family] stuff together! “What was that about?”

*Sigh*

“The asshole is angry because things didn’t go as he wanted.” [Aunty Viv] shrugged, “It doesn’t matter, nothing of importance happened, or well, nothing permanent. A couple flesh wounds are pointless and you all came better from the whole thing, did you not?”

“Apparently.” [Fan Girl] looked around, “Was I that bad?”

“What did he meant when he spoke about the means in which those mercenaries got their weapons?” [Meat Shield] asked as he turned to look at [Aunty Viv], a second later he fiddled with something on his phone and his face shifted to a frown.

“Is that one of our holosuits?” [Aunty Viv] asked back instead, “If you want I can get you a neuro receptor so you don’t have to activate manually your expressions, or I can get you the same configuration I use to put on the socially acceptable expression I use when going to balls and galas.”

[Aunty Viv] had deflected! Alexa knew that technique! It was what Ale liked to do in her streams when someone asked something she didn’t want to talk about!

“Vivian…” The [Mom] person put a hand on the shoulder of [Aunty Viv] and turned to [Meat Shield] and [Fan Girl], “He… *Sigh* Part of my work seeks true equality, something that is anathema to the meritocracy system the Saintsworths endorse.”

Then everyone should be equal! If the [Mom] person said it, then it must be right!

“Isn’t the whole thing with the Saintsworths that you will get as much as you deserve?” [Fan Girl] pointed out, “That’s how they manage to nab all the genius from other families, and how the get the idealists that think they are better than the rest when they aren’t… At least till they quit.”

“Yes.” The [Mom] person nodded, “But if your work is dangerous, shouldn’t you get the best available gear?”

“Not necessarily.” [Meat Shield] shook his head, “Power begets responsibility. If you wield power, you must be responsible for how its used, and if you give a gun to a child… They will use it, be it against you, against their friend or even against their pet. Even in high risk places you don’t give a shotgun to the drunkard of the town, for he will not use as one should.”

“But these are trained men.” The [Mom] person countered, “They are hired because they are trained and have the appropriate clearing to use that kind of weapons!”

“And they used it in the right way.” [Meat Shield] nodded, “They used it and pointed it at us, and used it quite spectacularly. I read the reports of how I was after the encounter, and the medical reports that indicate how badly wounded Skye and Ale were, and they are quite gruesome.”

“Alexa wants to see!” Alexa quickly dashed and peeked at the phone that [Meat Shield] pointed towards the [Mom] person, but the letters and pictures were too small… “Tei!”

So Alexa did a grabbing motion and threw the data at the Tv!

[Transmitting data.]

[Main Core] did the rest! He picked on to Alexa’s intentions and sent the data to the TV, Ale had already left it, but since she was there Alexa didn’t have issues to take command of it! Or well, [Main Core] didn’t have issues doing so.

“Hmm….” Alexa took a thinking stance as the images of the wounds and damage were shown, “Alexa thinks that [Meat Shield] shouldn’t look like that.”

The picture titled [Golem] only showed a pile of rocks and the dirt looking [Core] of him.

“[Fan Girl] looks like she has more openings for wind tho.” On the side the photos of [Fan Girl] showed her with bandages and a diagram of where she had wounds and the degree of treatment that was required.

“The amount of healing and level of treatment you received is equal to the one we give to Scions and heirs.” [Aunty Viv] pointed out, “So I would say any perceived grievance you may feel against Miriam should be cancelled.”

“But it was not because of me that they got it.” The [Mom] person pointed, “I don’t have the clearance to order that, do you have it Viv?”

“I could get it done.” [Aunty Viv] shrugged, “Still, making you responsible for it is stupid. You didn’t give the orders, nor encouraged them to take this job. The high elders of the Saintsworths did.”

“But they used me to get those weapons into the open market.” The [Mom] person sighed, “Alexanders is right. And even if I we cancelled those orders…”

“Impossible.” [Aunty Viv] said immediately, “You would need actual evidence of misuse, did you kids get the mercenaries?”

“No.” [Meat Shield] answered, “We were defeated.”

“There it is.” [Aunty Viv] pointed, “When Alexanders is done with them there will be no evidence, so he has no right to complain about it.”

“But [Big Brother] will not deal with them.” Alexa chimed in, “Ale asked him to leave it to us!”

“…Meaning?” [Aunty Viv] turned to [Meat Shield], “You can’t expect that to work out.”

“I was unconscious at the time, but from what both Alexanders and Ale said. That seems to be the case.” [Meat Shield] then turned to [Fan Girl], “Did I misunderstand something?”

“Nope, I got the same impression.” [Fan Girl] pointed at the TV, “Ale was pretty clear about it, the blonde - I mean – Alexanders said as much. If we want him to deal with it he will, but otherwise we can deal with them as we want.”

“Impossible.” [Auty Viv] stated, “Miriam, has this happened before?”

“Not that I remember.” The [Mom] person shook her head, “Usually he would just scorch the earth and salt it when he was done.”

“Always double tap your enemies!” Alexa jumped in with the gun emote, “[Big Brother] always says that!”

“Exactly.” [Aunty Viv] nodded, “That asshole is not known for his mercy, he is a vindictive man that will not rest till he is done with his enemies.”

“Aren’t there like clips of people attacking him every month or so?” [Fan Girl] asked as she showed a video on A-tube of just that, “There wouldn’t be surviving people if that was the case.”

“Thing is…” The [Mom] person sighed, “He isn’t at risk there, he has this weird… Thing, you can attack or try to kill him, he doesn’t care because you won’t succeed, but when you cross that imaginary line he likes to redraw every week, you are done.”

“So… we aren’t on the safe side of the line.” [Fan Girl] smirked, “And here I was feeling special.”

“No you are.” The [Mom] person quickly corrected [Fan Girl].

“Of course we are!” Alexa nodded sagely, “You are frens of both Ale and me!”

It was obvious that they would be in the right side of the line of sand, actually, “We are way past any line in the sand and in the table!” Everyone knew that once you shared a table you were [Family]! That was why Alexa liked to eat with the people she liked!

“…I am confused.” [Fan Girl] said holding her head, “So you say the most dangerous and weird man on the world likes us? But he will not avenge us?”

“Oh he will.” The [Mom] person shook her head, “But… for all his bad habits, his manners and his weird sense of humor, Alexanders does respect boundaries like he said.”

“Alexanders Saintsworths is a contradiction of a human being.” [Aunty Viv] walked to the screen and set up her phone against the thing, Alexa felt it try to take control away from her, but she was curious about what it was so she let it take the TV, Ale was gone from it anyway, “He will let you die if that is what you want, he will give you the means to do the deed even. But if you want to live, if you want to achieve something… He will ensure you have the means to achieve it. So even though going after the mercenaries may mean you will antagonize the High Council, he will not stop you.”

“That’s…” [Fan Girl] seemed annoyed, wasn’t that good? [Big Brother] would let them do what they wanted!

“Then why do you hate him.” [Meat Shield] suddenly asked, “From what you have said, he doesn’t sound like a bad boss.”

“Because he doesn’t understand a very simple thing.” [Aunty Viv] said slowly, “Not everyone wants the same thing as him.”

“Huh?” Alexa was confused, “But… [Big Brother] wants what’s best!”

“That is debatable.” [Aunty Viv] shook her head, “The best for me is not the best for everyone.”

“Alexanders is… A very self-centered man.” The [Mom] person nodded, “He has been improving, when we meet him he solved all his issues with money and power, the point you are meeting him is the best one so far.”

“He seemed okay.” [Fan Girl] nodded, “For a Saintsworths at least.”

“[Big Brother] is the best Saintsworths!” Alexa nodded yet again, why were they even speaking about that? It was obvious, he was Alexa’s [Twin Brother]! How could he not be the best?

“And that’s the thing at the end of the day.” The [Mom] person smile turned sad, “Not everyone can live up to the Saintsworths standards.”

“The Saintsworths Standards?” [Fan Girl] asked confused, “What are those?”

“It’s what we mortal peasants used to refer to what one needed to have to work within the Saintsworths Conglomerate,” [Aunty Viv] answered, “They are forbidden to speak nowadays so only us people from the older generation knows them.”

“You are like thirty at most.” [Fan Girl] answered back at that.

“I am twenty two.” [Aunty Viv] complained back, “But that’s not the point. The Saintsworths Standards are what the worst Saintsworths descendant of that generation has achieved, and what one needs to achieve to match up to them.”

“The worst Saintsworths descendant?” [Meat Shield] asked tilting his head to the size, was he attempting to include mannerisms now?

“Roll back a second, twenty two? You are one year older than me? With that body?” [Fan Girl] looked up and down at [Aunty Viv], “No way that’s natural.”

“Engineered to the peak perfection.” [Aunty Viv] smirked as she answered, even if the smirk felt… artificial.

[Notice, detected electric stimulation on Subject: Aunty Viv.]

So she was faking it!

“Before you would get compared to what the last Saintsworths born had achieved, and if you didn’t match up to them you didn’t get to work or be within hearing distance of them. So if you were born within two to three years of a Saintsworths…” The [Mom] person sighed.

“How old are you? And is she really twenty two?” [Fan Girl] then turned to the [Mom] person.

“Vivian is really twenty two, but her specialty is genetics and she likes to experiment on herself. I am twenty four.” The [Mom] person was basically old! As old as time even! “And Alexanders Saintsworths is twenty-on-“

“The same as Alexa!” Alexa quickly jumped in to answer, “Because he is Alexa’s [Twin Brother]!”

Obviously!

“You will not find many people that likes that man for the same reason.” [Aunty Viv] said shaking her head, “Not many Saintsworths were born that year, or within that time period. And even those that were born none came to the public, so all we peasants had as comparison was the Nascent Scion of the Saintsworths to compare…”

“Oof.” [Fan Girl] grimaced, “That must not have been fun.”

“It was not.” The [Mom] person said shaking her head, “He was not in the wrong either, but try to explain a kid that they can’t go to the park because someone that they don’t know may be around. Try to explain that you can’t go to get ice cream because someone they don’t know might want…”

“Yeah…” [Meat Shield] scratched the back of his head, wasn’t that rock? What was he scratching? “Fair, but you said he got better right?”

“Not soon.” [Aunty Viv] then pointed at the [Mom] person, “Part of it is thanks to her, not many people dared to talk back to a Saintsworths then, nor do they do now. Not unless they know the Saintsworths in question.”

“Or they get ordered to do it.” The [Mom] person shook her head, “The Saintsworths is that kind of place.”

“What is it like?” [Fan Girl] pointed to Alexa, “All we have to go by is her, and Alexanders Saintsworths, they can’t be a good example.”

“Ale doesn’t behave like what one would expect a Saintsworths either,” [Meat Shield] added on, “Nor did Alexandra.”

“They are… elitist.” The [Mom] person said as she seemed to struggle to find the right answer, “Or well, they are talented, they are prideful, they are most often that not right about what they say. But they also don’t understand normal people that well.”

“I like working with them.” [Aunty Viv] suddenly said, “Work goes excellent when we cooperate with them.”

“That only applies to you.” The [Mom] person shook her head, “And even in those cases the time you can work with them is limited, you could always take their offers.”

“No.” [Aunty Viv] quickly said no, “It would mean that I need to bear one of their children, only reason I still have that ability is because the perfect body requires leaving a spawn behind to ensure the survival of the race. I refuse to waste between one to eighteen years unless it’s necessary.”

“I’m sorry, between one and eighteen years?” [Fan Girl] asked confused, “What kind of experiment would take that much time.”

“Child bearing and rearing.” [Aunty Viv] answered, only to have [Fan Girl]’s face turn red.

“Oh.” [Fan Girl] only said that before looking at Alexa. “Yeah… That sounds… complicated.”

“I also am not equipped to fulfill the needs of child rearing yet.” [Aunty Viv] pointed to Alexa too, “Unless I am able to fulfill those needs up to one hundred percent I will not participate in such a flawed experiment.”

“That… is an interesting way to refer to… THAT.” [Fan Girl] said pulling at her hoodie and trying to cover her face with the head covering of the hoodie.

“And I am thankful for that.” The [Mom] person then pulled at Alexa, giving hem her fair reward for being cute!

Uppies!

“You are not joking.” [Meat Shield] suddenly said.

“Of course not.” [Aunty Viv] deadpanned, “I am working to fix those issues, but Miriam claims I need to better my understanding of humanity first.”

“I will not authorize human experimentation!” The [Mom] person jumped quickly, “Really, its hard enough to justify you experimenting in yourself as is!”

“All of those modifications are tested before I use them on myself,” [Aunty Viv] pointed the obvious, who does untested experiments on themselves? Are they dumb? “And all my test subjects are voluntary, they want to participate.”

“Your subordinates are not normal.” The [Mom] person sighed, “We diverted too much from the original subject and the main reason we came here.”

Oh right, what was this about? Alexa got distracted midway though.

“Why did you come then?” [Fan Girl] asked the most important question of the day.

“I came to facilitate Miriam’s arrival.” [Aunty Viv] said pointing at the spot where she had thrown the thingie that teleported the [Mom] person here.

“And I came to ensure Ale and Alexa arrived safe, to prepare them for school.” The [Mom] person then looked at [Fan Girl] and [Meat Shield], “Do you want to stay for dinner while we explain how the schools work here?”

[Family] dinner time!