Stasis And The Legend Of The Weeping Bride.

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STASIS AND THE LEGEND OF THE WEEPING BRIDE

We join Stasis as she is waking up from her mid morning nap on one of the sofa’s, she rubs her eyes and licks her lips.

“Mmm, thirsty.” She says to herself.

Stasis is wearing one of her usual casual outfits which consist of, Khaki utility skinny jeans, navy blue t-shirt and a pair of simple white trainers accompanied with plain white trainer socks underneath.

Stasis makes her way down to the canteen as she has the craving for an energy drink, but when she enters she finds her favourite flavour is currently out of stock in the fridge, but there’s a brand new pack sitting in the shelves above her ready to be re-stocked in the morning.

“Well that’s great and all that it’s going to be there in the morning, but I want it now and since there’s no one around to help, I’ll just have to get it myself.” Stasis says out loud.

With this she grabs a nectarine from a fruit bowl and loads it into her slingshot before firing it straight up, the nectarine hits the side of the shelf before hitting one of the drinks causing it to come down straight into Stasis’s hand.

“Oh the nectarine didn’t come down.........Meh I got what I wanted.” Stasis says as she cracks it open and drinks it all down in one, afterwards she loads the empty can into her slingshot and shoots it all the way across the room and into the open bin and the other end of the canteen.

“What, I couldn’t be bothered to walk all the way over there.” Stasis says thinking she needs to justify her laziness.

Stasis leaves the canteen and starts to make her way back to the infiltrators lounge when she something catches the corner of her eye, she stops and turns only to see one of her fellow infiltrators CI-2237 or better known by her infiltrator nickname “Libido”, she was trying to chat up Pierce and a couple of his soldier. Libido herself was wearing a pair of converses with thigh high white socks on, she was wearing a pair of bright blue jean shorts with a bright green tank top, this accompanied with a pair of bright red suspenders she had on. Now Libido’s defects seems to have been great as while her facial features are completely the same as all the other clones, her skin tone is far more Caucasian and it seems her hair has been permanently dyed a subtle shade of purple which seems to have even effected her pupils as they too are also a subtle shade of purple.

Libido was leaning with her back against a wall with one foot on the floor and one against the wall to and her hands were tucked behind the back of her head so her breasts would stick out more.

“Ssssooooo, what time do you guys get off because I’d love it if afterwards you would get me off too?” Libido said while winking at them.

“Seriously, you try this every day you know were all married right?” Pierce said with a confused face.

“Oh come on babe we could have our own little party or if you prefer you could party a baby in me right now?” With that she suddenly felt Stasis grab her by her suspenders and pull her away rapidly.

“Come on you horny minx, let’s go.” Stasis said without letting go of Libido.

“Well that was a big drum roll for nothing.” Libido said blowing her fringe out of her face.

“Oh please, if you had done anything the non-clones would have whooped your arse back to the stone age.” Stasis said after getting enough distance between themselves and the soldiers.

“Yeah.......Yeah.” A very sexually frustrated Libido says.

Just then Stasis notices something unusual, she spots a clone trooper wearing what appears to be a hiker’s outfit sneaking out of the hanger.

“Well, hello what do we have here, Libido go wait in the lounge I’ve got to stick my nose where it doesn’t belong and that’s in someone else’s business hehe.” Stasis chuckles to herself.

Libido nods and walks away.

“Hey, hey watch this I’m going to do one of those stereotypical hiding behind the corner waiting for the person to feel safe thing.” Stasis explains to herself.

The clone trooper in question was none other than Marie who had just returned from her last assignment with Tina, Marie crept passed everyone then when she thought she was clear she let out a deep phew before she heard someone clear there throat behind her, Marie turned and saw Stasis with her back against the wall, her eyes shut and dead down, with her arms crossed together.

“Well, well look who decided to come home, do you have any idea what time it is missy, your father and I have been worried sick.”Stasis said sarcastically.

“Huh, what?” Marie said confused.

“Hey, hey I’m just joshing you, so be honest what’s an ordinary trooper like you doing sneaking around and wait........That’s not a usual troopers outfit, *gasp* did you steal that from another woman.” Stasis put one hand over her mouth pretended to be gob smacked.

“No, of course not, I just felt like a change of style that’s all.” Marie said trying her best to lie.

“Haha, aahh no need to get all defensive around me, be honest it felt GOOD didn’t it.” Stasis said with a wink. “Anyway I’m an infiltrator I’m supposed to know when something looks out of the ordinary.” She added.

“Okay look, please don’t tell anyone I was just doing it for a friend.” Marie said looking at the med bay.

Stasis looked over and saw Tina sitting next to a heavily sedated and heavily unconscious Soph.

“No way, loner is your friend?” Stasis said referring to Tina as the loner.

“Hey don’t refer to her as that.” Marie said in distaste.

“But she’s always been known as Loner, it’s not an insult and...........So the rumours are true. Her name wouldn’t be Tina by any chance would it?” Stasis stared straight back at Marie. Although she herself doesn’t answer.

“WOW, that is so cool, hell yeah BB owes me a grilled cheese.” Stasis said salivating over the idea of a sandwich.

“Huh......But?” Marie was now confused.

“Ooohhh how did we know? Well as an infiltrator we get bored waiting around so we like to spy on all the clones, I tell you some of the stuff you here I tell you, but do you know what I like you, want to come meet some of the others?” Stasis said with excitement in her voice.

“Wait, you guys hang out together I thought you all preferred to be alone.” Marie asked.

“No, no that’s just loner or Tina, what every you prefer hence forth the nickname we gave her, all infiltrators have nicknames that we give to each other because of our attributes and traits that the rest of the clones don’t have, I’m known as Stasis because I’ve got ice in my veins from being one cold hearted mama.......HAHA the look on your face nah it’s because of my weapon of choice, but the stasis part is correct, come on let’s go.” Stasis said after grabbing Marie’s hand and leading her away.

Marie was taken back with this, she couldn’t help but wonder, were all the other infiltrators like her and Tina was the exception, with any case she was about to find out. When they got there Stasis opened the door and went inside.

“HONEY, I’M HOME!” She shouted as she walked in.

Marie followed her in and was surprised to see several other infiltrators all sitting around doing their own things.

“Stasis, who is this?” One of them asked.

“Oh I found her just wondering the halls all by herself, oh can I keep her mummy, pretty please, I’ll feed her and everything.” Stasis replied.

“Eeerrmmmm Hi.” Marie says nervously.

“No need to be nervous, you’re among sisters here, so what’s a trooper like you doing around these parts then?” The same infiltrator asked.

“Oh Mag, you’re going to love this, she’s just been on a stealth mission with loner or should I say Tina. BY THE WAY BB I WON THE BET!..........As I was saying she one apparently snuck out by herself and even took down a least one woman for her clothing, just like us, I mean how cool is that.” Stasis said with excitement.

“Huh, is that true, well if that is the case then come on in, meet some of the others, I see you’ve already met Stasis. My name’s Mag, the big one over there reading the great composers by Harold C. Shonberg is Big Bertha or sometimes BB for short, the one over there staring hopelessly and hopefully at the ceiling is Libido and the one with her head buried in the computers in Tinker. Okay make yourself at home and your name is by the way?” Mag explained.

“Eeerrmm *swallows deeply* I guess my name’s Marie.”Marie nervously introduces.

“Huh......A trooper with an actual name and not a nickname.” Mag turns in confusion.

“See I told you, she’s real interesting.” Stasis says jumping back onto the sofa and grabbing a TV remote.

“Yeah, this is different, well then Stasis aren’t you going to introduce Marie to everyone properly then?” Mag turned to walk away.

“Yeah alright, I suppose I should, there’s nothing good on anyway and besides this chapter’s supposed to be focused on me so I probably should be in every scene.” Stasis said getting up again.

Stasis took Marie to Tinker first. Now Tinker got her name because of her fascination if building equipment, working things out and just overall tinkering with anything she can get her hands on. Tinker wore a standard infiltrator armour set with the exception of a high tech backpack with a small antenna poking out of the top, her skin tone was Porcelain white and she wore big circular glasses, she also had long black hair tied back in a long ponytail.

“Hey Tinker, what’s crack-a-lacking.” Stasis said sitting down.

Tinker spins to look at Marie. Before getting out a little flashlight and quickly looking into one of Marie’s eyes.

“How fascinating, you don’t show any signs of genetic tampering which means you are purely a trooper yet somehow at some point something has triggered almost like an awakening in your cerebral cortex and allowed to unlock things such as individuality and free thoughts. How extraordinary. Name’s Tinker by the way.” Tinker said after adjusting her glasses and offering her hand.

“Yeah hi well as you heard I’m Marie so what do you actually do when not on assignments?” Marie asked while shaking Tinker’s hand.

“Well you see all these fancy gadgets and equipment, well I make them, all of Loner’s or should I say catsuits, I make them all for her and all of her knock out serums. Stasis’s slingshot and ammunition, I made all those too, Mag’s armoured suit which she hasn’t shown yet, I made then also........What you really think that all these infiltrators are capable of doing all these things by themselves, no, no they come up with the ideas then I make them.” Tinker after showing off that she’s the brains of all the infiltrators gadgets and weapons.

“WOW that is so cool!” Marie responded.

“Oh no, no cool is a social title reserved for people that have high egotistical problems, I’m just someone that wants to make sure my sisters are safe in the field.” Tinker said turning back to her computer.

“Uuurgghh, it a compliment Tinker, just accept it, blooming Nora. Okay you’ve said hi now let’s move on as I imagine our readers want to get to the USB scenes soon.” But Marie only heard to the point of Stasis let’s move on as she’s completely oblivious to Stasis’s last part of the sentence.

Next up was Big Bertha. Now she is exactly the same as Tina, same skin tone, hair and eye colour yet she seemed to have kept on growing as she’s now the staggering height of 7.1. She also massive muscles and is virtually built like an OX. Big Bertha is wearing a modified and custom designed infiltrators uniform designed and made by Tinker. BB stands up to greet them. Marie looks up in partial shock.

“Yeah, she’s a big ol’ lass isn’t she.” Stasis says after viewing Marie’s face.

“Nice to meet you, so the one who cost me the bet huh, well that’s fine, Stasis has always enjoyed materialistic items.” BB said sitting back down.

“I also see you’re well educated.” Marie nodding at her book.

“Well most will see me as a hulking brute I do also believe in keeping both your heart and mind pure, that’s why I meditate every morning to fill my body with positive vibes to give the energy I need to see it through the day.” BB explains.

“Oh please, you should of seen her on her last mission, here she acts all peaceful but on her missions she makes Genghis Khan look like a pacifist, oh yeah HAHAHAHA that’s not the best part, you see because of her height and width she looks so funny when she steals an enemy guards uniform to wear as a disguise, it just looks like everything shrunk in the wash on her HAHAHAHA.........I remember once we did a mission together and we knocked out these two female electricians for their outfits and on the tag it said one size fits all but when she put it on she could even do up one of the buttons HAHAHAHAHA.” Stasis said almost crying through sheer laughter.

“Wait so why don’t any of the enemy guards every call you out then?” Marie wondered.

“Uuuhhh hello, have you seen the size of this woman, who in their right mind is gonna walk up to her and say, hey that looks a little tight on you, ya know.” Stasis said pointing out the obvious.

“It’s true, but a job’s a job and when we get back I go back to my ever peaceful loving state, I’m a gentle giant really.” BB said shrugging her shoulders.

“Yeah I know you are, right I would introduce to Libido but she’s sulking because I pulled her way for a potential shag, hhhmmm because she’s not a male I can’t call if cock blocking I guess eerrrmmmm.........Crutch block by gosh.........I don’t know I’ll work on it, anyway you’ve briefly seen Mag.” Stasis said pointed at Mag who was fiddling with her sidearm’s.

Now Mag looks exactly like Tina and the other clones the only different is the left half of her hair is completely jet black while the right side of her hair is completely brilliant white which she has braided.

“Allow me to explain, she’s wearing a skin tight almost swimsuit like outfit now, but on attached to the suit on her back and in a high compact and compressed powered assault armour, it links to the watch she has on her arm and when she clicks her watch the suit unfolds and wraps itself around Mag’s entire body, it’s actually my greatest work for you see it compensates for the less extensive physically demanded suits worn of which by standard troopers this in turn has allowed me to modify it by adding HD HOC modifications which allows for rechargeable energy shields, an invisibility clocking device which lasts for roughly thirty seconds and built in hud system which allows to have full battlefield awareness during the chaos. The armour itself has only top of the line plating as this protects the inner tech and the vital hardware from damage this also allows me to implement specialized sub systems and armatures for instance inside she has a series of muscle fibres which have been programmed to give her increased speed and muscle when her suit is activated. Her weapons of choice as well are two modified sidearm’s which extremely durable rubber bullets, I mean you can’t steal a women’s uniform with blood all over now can you.” Tinker explained while admiring her work.

“Yeah sure, what she said.” Stasis felt the need to add.

Just then though Stasis got a call, it was time to go work.

“Okay ladies, it sounds like I’m being summoned, so Marie, it was awesome chatting with you but I got to bounce, hopefully I’ll see you later.” Stasis said after grabbing her slingshot and ammo pouch.

“Eeerr yeah sue, I mean I’ll probably go and sit with Tina for a while but yeah it was nice seeing you.” Marie said while also eager to see how Tina was doing.

“Cool, catch you on the flip side switch!” With that Stasis was off to go her next assignment.

Stasis made her way to the 202nd Siege Brigade or rather the “frost bite’s” barracks where she was to meet with CO-1284. Inside the commander was busy filling out some paper work when her buzzer went off.

“Hello, who’s there?” She asked.

“Yeah hi, I’ll take a quarter pounder with cheese to go please.” The voice replied.

“Oooohhh no...........Stasis would you get in here.” CO-1284 said apparently aware of Stasis’s childish jokes.

“Oh fair maiden of the troth I hear thow haseth a quest for me to accept for his the great king of Grimoire.” Stasis said upon entering the office.

“You seriously aren’t going to talk like that this whole briefing are you?” CO-1284 asked worryingly.

“Nah I’m good, so what’s happening commander?” Stasis asked seemingly wanting to get down to business.

“Very well, on the screen in front you in a massive town filled with hundreds, possibly thousands of citizens, this behemoth of a town is situated in between multiple mountains and an incredibly think forest, now here’s where the fun begins, for you see over this past month there have been seven murders in this town, all the victims were female and had all just recently gotten engaged to the loves of their lives. Four of the victims were found hanging with their eyes gouged out from the old abandoned cathedral however the first three were found outside their respected work places but with the same causes of death. Now the townsfolk have started blaming the spirit of the weeping bride. Have you heard of it?” CO-1284 asks.

“No, but colour me interested, I love a good back story.” Stasis replied.

“Okay. A few years ago a woman by the name of Alexandra Cel Tradat were celebrating her wedding day with the love of her life, however during their first dance it was revealed that her one true love was cheating on her with one of the brides maids, embarrassed and broken hearted it is said she ripped out her own eyes so she couldn’t see the faces of her family before she hurled herself off the edge of a cliff to her untimely demise, now many people of claimed to see Alexandra Cel Tradat walking the streets at night still in her wedding dress crying out tears of blood, searching for a new soul mate, it is also said that she can be heard singing the tune of her first dance on her wedding day high above the cathedrals bell tower, rumours also speculate that should one parade their love to close to the cathedral then the weeping bride shall appear and rip out your eyes before killing you, because you rubbed your love in her broken heart.” CO-1284 explained the tale of the weeping bride.

“Oooohhh sounds fun, so what do you want me to do though when I see her, shall I just kick in the shin and tell her to piss off and go haunt somewhere else or what?” Stasis asked.

The commander looked at her with somewhat disbelief before adding. “No..........Go to the town, find out what’s really going on, it could just be a serial killer taking advantage of the legend so nobody would look for them, we’re not sure but that’s what you’re going to find out. Here’s a dossier on all the known victims” CO-1284 said relaying the orders to Stasis.

“Well what are we waiting for, let’s get this party started.” Stasis replied taking the dossier and making her way to the hanger.

“How in the world, did she end up as an infiltrator?” CO-1284 thought to herself after Stasis left.

Stasis made her way to the hanger and boarded her designated ship, moments later she was off, surprisingly it didn’t take them all that long to reach the town and after a quick landing Stasis was on her way through the forest and making her way towards the town itself. Once she reached the town she noticed that a lot of the streets were nearly empty, she guessed with everything going on that many if not most people were only coming out of their houses if it was absolutely necessary, Stasis made her way down several streets and passed the old cathedral when she heard a noise coming down one of the valleys to the side of it. Stasis poked her head round the corner and saw a figure wearing a white wedding dressed hunched over crying.

“Well any normal person would of just walked away wouldn’t they, aahh screw it let’s see what happens.” With that Stasis made her way down the alley she got within a few meters of the crying woman, when she suddenly stopped crying. Stasis inhaled deeply, then the woman stood up and turned, she was a white skinned woman with long curly black hair, she had a white sheet wrapped her eyes with what looked like red tears dripping down her face. She was wearing a long full body covering wedding dress and brandished a butcher knife in her right hand.

“Well aren’t you a sight for sore eyes, haha get it, because you haven’t got any.” Stasis joked.

Suddenly the weeping bride let out a shrieking scream which broke all the lights in the alley before she suddenly rose up by several inches and started walking towards Stasis.

“Holy hot ham and cheese, stuff this I’m out of here.” With that Stasis turned and ran as fast as she could straight out of the alley and down two or three streets before she stopped and turned to make sure she wasn’t being followed.

“Damn, where’s big Bertha when you need her.” Stasis said while catching her breath.

“Okay enough fooling around time to get to work, so the dossier said there was seven victims, however only four of them were found at the cathedral while the other three were found at their work places, now what’s interesting is the legend says that the weeping bride only kills newly engaged women, now yes the four that were killed at the cathedral were newly engaged however the three that were killed at their work places were only still in the girlfriend status of their respected relationships, which doesn’t add up at all, now their places of work were, a toy store, an electronics shop and a wedding dress store. Okay time to go investigate, bad day to be a shop worker as I’m going to need disguises haha. Also to the bozo out there, you said this would be a fun and light hearted chapter so what’s the big idea scaring me half to death and allowing to get chased by a broken hearted spirit. Geez.......” Stasis monologued to herself.

Following up on her hunches it didn’t take Stasis long to find the electronic store where the first victim was, but first she needed a disguise. Stasis snuck her way round the back of the store and went in via the emergency fire door, inside she was lucky as a lone female worker was working on her clipboard taking in the stock inventory.

She was a 26 year old woman with a chestnut brown skin tone, she had long brown hair brushed over to one side, she was average build, she also had dark espresso coloured eyes. She was wearing a blue button up shirt, black ankle length skirt and black high heels, her name badge read “Hayley.”

“Cafe Oley babe.” Stasis said as she lined her shot.

Hayley wiped the sweat from her forehead just in time for one of Stasis’s black balls to clonk her right in the back of her head and send her crashing to the floor, all Hayley had time for was an “Oooooffffff” as she fell unconscious.

“Well that easy, time for a swift change.” With that Stasis dragged Hayley by her ankles out of the doorway’s view just in case anyone else walked in, from there she slipped of Hayley’s high heels before tugging her skirt down and off of her legs, this followed by Stasis unbuttoning and helping herself to Hayley’s employee shirt. Underneath we see Hayley was wearing a summer yellow bra and spring green panties. With her job done Stasis quickly found some computer wires in a box and quickly tied Hayley up before using a plastic bag as a gag, this was slightly unorthodox but Stasis made it work. With Hayley bound, gagged and out of the way, Stasis got changed into her clothes and picked up the clipboard before checking the stock list, it didn’t take her long to realise something was strange about it, so using her disguise she went and spoke to the manager.

“Excuse me sir, but can I talk to you about the inventory list?” Stasis asked the manager.

“Why are you doing it, I asked Hayley to do that job?” The manager replied.

“Yeah well Hayley apparently just miraculously came down with a headache, hhmmm can’t imagine why, I bet she’s just bunking off of doing any work.” Stasis said naturally somewhat hiding the truth.

“Doesn’t sound like her as she’s my hardest worker, but okay what have you got?” The manager asked.

“I seem to have a missing ultra sounding amplifier and there aren’t any records of it being sold?” Stasis said getting down to it.

“Yes apparently on the night of the murder, a looter helped themselves to one of the amplifiers, I tell you this town is really starting to go down hill.” The manager said furiously.

“Hhhmmm, that’s convenient.” Stasis thought to herself. “Okay thanks boss man, gotta go.” Stasis said quickly hurrying out of the room leaving the manager slightly baffled.

A short while later Stasis was back outside and making her way to her next port of call which just so happened to be the wedding dress shop, it took her some time to find as the map she was using wasn’t all that clear but she eventually found it. Stasis went inside and was immediately greeted by the shop floor worker who got up from behind her desk and went over to greet her.

The woman was a tall white skinned woman, she had dyed blonde hair, this could be shown as her roots were starting to come through, she had bright blue eyes and perfect white teeth, she had navy blue dress trousers, a navy blue blazer, a cream low cut blouse underneath and a pair of cream high heels to match, she had her hair tied back in a bun, she was 34 years of age and her name badge read “Cassandra”.

“Hello and welcome, is there anything I can help you find at all or would you like to just browse our many wonderful dresses.” Cassandra asked.

“Hello and actually yes you can help me, you see I’m not looking for a wedding dress as such but instead I’m looking for a wedding dress shop workers outfit, you know something in navy blue with a pair of cream high heels to go with it.” Stasis hinted.

“Wait.......you just described the outfit I’m wearing.” Cassandra said in confusion.

“Oh you’re offering me your outfit, aahhh that’s so sweet of you.” Stasis said placing her hands over her heart.

Cassandra looked down at her clothes then looked up right in time to see a green ball catch her right in the middle of her face, it went off causing the knock out to take instance effect and with a matter of seconds she was flat out on her back completely knocked out.

“What’s this and now you’re saying I can strip you of your outfit right here and now then I can even have it free of charge. Aaahhh well that settles it I’m leaving you one hell of five star review on your website, because you have just been an angel today.” Stasis joked to the knocked out Cassandra.

Stasis grabbed Cassandra by her wrists and pulled her back behind her desk, she then proceeded to strip Cassandra of her jacket, blouse, shoes, her trousers and even her hair clip which allowed Cassandra hair to gently flow down to her shoulders. With this we see Cassandra is wearing a candy apple red thong and a dark chocolate see through bra with a little red bow tie in the middle.

“Wow, let me guess you’re a woman in the streets but a demon in the sheets type of lady huh? I admire that.” Stasis remarked as she grabbed a load of string which is usually used for the weeding bouquets, to which she swiftly hog tied Cassandra before using a wedding sash as a gag as tightly wrapped it around her mouth, she then pushed Cassandra under her own desk. Afterwards Stasis stripped and got changed into Cassandra clothes before she slipped the open sign to closed on the door, then she sat down on Cassandra’s chair and started to go through her online reports, because Cassandra was apparently the only worker in the shop at the moment, Stasis still needed the disguise to trick anyone that might do a bit of window shopping as they walked past.

It took a little longer than what Stasis would have liked but she did find an email from Cassandra to one of her colleagues stating that on the night of the second victims murder it seems one of the full body wedding dresses had disappeared, the email states that it may of been misplaced and can anyone account for it. Now do a degree Stasis did think that it could have been a mere oversight and the dressed may have been misplaced but the timing of it all just felt off. Armed with this new clue Stasis proceeded to leave the shop and checked the map for her final checkpoint.

The third place being the toy store was a lot easier to find as it was a hulking great store with a multi story car park, now for the fun part, Stasis needed a new outfit and it seems her donor would make an appearance soon.

Stasis wondered around the sides of the store until at long last one of the back doors opened and a female walked out carrying a load of rubbish bags to throw in a dumpster.

This woman seemed to be 29 years old, she was slightly more bulgy in terms of body shape than what Stasis’s body was, but desperate times. She had Ivory skin, black medium length hair, beige trousers, black work shoes and a red shirt on, she had dark green eyes and a name tag which read “Elisha”.

Elisha lifted up the lid to the dumpster and hurled the bags in when she heard a voice behind her.

“Good idea putting them in there, because now it won’t be so cold when you wake up in there.” The voice said.

“What are you on about.......” But when Elisha turned around a green ball caught her square in the face and exploded, this caused to fall backwards against the dumpster before she slid down it on her back out cold.

“Easy as A, B, C, One, two, three.” Stasis said feeling quite proud of herself.

Stasis grabbed the bottom of Elisha’s short and pulled up and over her head while she still sitting on the floor knocked out, this was followed by Stasis untying and removing her shoes as well as her pink and white striped socks underneath, she lay Elisha down on the floor next before unbuckling her belt and removing her trousers. Here we see Elisha had a pair of betty boop knickers on and a black bra.

Stasis quickly got changed into Elisha’s uniform before she rummaged around and found some discarded rope possibly from when the toy store had a delivery to which she promptly proceeded to tie up Elisha before using Cassandra’s blouse as a gag, with Elisha now bound and gagged Stasis picked up her near naked body and placed her inside the dumpster.

“Not ideal I know, but a clone’s got to do what a clone’s got to do.” She said to herself as she tried to tighten Elisha’s trousers as much as she can as it seems they were a little baggy on her.

With this she went inside, she hunted high and low but with this being such a big store multiples things could get lost, misplaced or even stolen in just a single day so Stasis had to come up with a different tactic so she found a couple of woman standing around in the coffee room.

“Hey girls mind if I ask you something real quick?” Stasis asked.

“Yeah no probs, but quick question, who are you and why are you wearing Elisha’s uniform?” One of them asked nearly blowing Stasis’s cover.

“Oh didn’t anyone tell, ah man this is embarrassing, you see Elisha was called away to a family gathering said something about one of them being sick so i said I’d fill in for her, but you wouldn’t know my uniform was at cleaners so Elisha very kindly said I could borrow her uniform for the day, I knew this would cause some confusion.” Stasis lied.

“Oh well thanks for stepping in for her, it’s nice to know there’s good people out there still willing to help.” The other worker said.

“I know isn’t it?” Stasis remarked as she now kind of felt bad she had been honest, but she guessed false hope is better than no hope again she guessed.

“So what do you need help with?” The worker carried on.

“Oh nothing major you see I’m trying to find a list of inventory from the night from the night of that poor murder here a few weeks back, the people in head office need to do some calculations you see.” Stasis tried to make the lie sound believable.

“Huh, well that’s strange they’ve never asked for that before but I guess these are strange times at the moment so who knows, but yeah you’ll find them in the archive cupboard just across the hall, look for the dates on each drawer, you can’t miss it.” The second worker said.

“Thank you very much.” But before Stasis could leave.

“Hey when you see Elisha next can you tell her if she ever needs anyone to talk to she can always come to us.” The second worker added.

“Yeah of course, as a matter of fact I think she’ll literally be gagged when I tell her.” Stasis joked knowing that the two women wouldn’t quite understand what she meant.

Stasis went into the office and found the file marked with the date of the third victims death, she browsed all through the lists and first nothing seemed out of place then she remembered the alleyway, she remembered the weeping bride suddenly growing several inches in height, now this was a long shot but she took it, it said on the list that there seven sets of stilts then when she checked the day before list there were eight. It was then Stasis put two and two together before she smiled.

“Got you.” She said with a grin.

A FEW HOURS LATER.

Night had now set in and the moon was full in an otherwise starless night, the cathedral in shrouded in darkness yet a white figure emerges on the top floor of the cathedral, the weeping bridge emerges from the shadows and hums a calm, peaceful but somehow eerie melody, her humming is heard echoing in the towns empty streets. As she hums her melody away she a voice whispers behind her.

“Nice tune.” The weeping bride slowly turns to see Stasis resting against the cathedrals damaged bells.

“I must admit, you almost had me convinced at first but something about the victims just didn’t add up so I did some digging and well I discovered that. You are no ghost are you Alexandra.” Stasis said readying her slingshot.

The weeping let out a deafening scream which smashed several lights around her, but Stasis just performed a fake yawn. The weeping bride suddenly grew several inches taller like last time and brandishing her cleaver heading straight towards Stasis.

Stasis was prepared and she fired two red balls one at each of the weeping brides legs, the exploded letting the acid rapidly eat away at her legs before she suddenly stumbled the floor with a crash, it was here that Stasis quickly fired a black ball straight at the weeping bride’s chest and when it struck the weeping bride fell backwards in pain.

“See, your no ghost at all.” Stasis reinforced.

It’s here that the weeping bride ripped off the fold around her eyes revealing that she was none other than Alexandra Cel Tradat and not only was she very much alive but she certainly still had both of her eyes.

“How did you know?” She asked with a very angry tone in her voice.

“Well the first three victims weren’t engaged, but the other four were, then it hit me, if you wanted to steal all the stuff you required to make the legend of the weeping bride too that what better way to do that to have a victim at each other thieving locations so nobody would suspect anything. The you can use the expendable stilts to make yourself seem like a demon, use the high pitch amp to make your screams look like that of Banshee and the dress you stole was just the cherry on top wasn’t it.” Stasis quickly deduced.

“Well done, I invented the weeping bride, those years ago when the love of my life ripped my heart out in front of all my friends and family, I was heartbroken, I was betrayed and I was embarrassed, so I faked my own death, briefly changed my appearance and gave myself a new name before I started spreading rumours about that night, it wasn’t long before people started to claim that had seen my spirit walking the streets at night, it was then I took up the mantle of the weeping bride for don’t you see, every time I’m killing one of these women I’m actually saving them for the heartbreak and pain that will eventually follow, I am given them a quick mercy death rather than a slow and painful one.” Alexandra explained her actions.

“You are just all sorts of crazy aren’t you?” Stasis teased.

“You could never understand, but I’m still here and I still have my weapon, so here is where you die and AARRGGHHHH.......” However Alexandra’s line was quickly cut short as Stasis fired one of her blue balls hitting Alexandra and temporarily freezing her in place.

“What you didn’t think I’d go the whole chapter without using one of these babies would you? Anyway Alexandra Cel Tradat you are hereby under arrest for the murders of seven innocent women, I appreciate that what you went through was hard and no one should have go through that, but it definitely doesn’t mean you take another’s life, if you don’t have an attorney then I don’t give a damn as I won’t be around HAHA.” Suddenly Stasis heard police sirens and looked down to see multiple police cars and even a swat truck arrived on the scene.

“Aaahhh here they are now, I made an anonymous call to the police a couple of minutes before I came up here, so yeah have fun you nutter, I’d probably say I’d see you around some time but you’ll probably go away now for at least forty years, maybe more so I highly doubt that, anyway take care of yourself bye, bye.” With that Stasis quickly made her leave just in time too as the moment she left a swat team emerged on the roof top ready to take Alexandra into custody.

Stasis hung around for a few minutes and watched as the swat dragged the now screaming Alexandra into the back of the van as the Stasis effect had now worn off, afterwards she went several miles into the woods and fired a purple ball into the sky which momentarily light up the sky, before a dropship appeared over head ready to take Stasis home. For Stasis this was another win for the books.

END OF STASIS AND THE LEGEND OF THE WEEPING BRIDE.

[rufusluciusivan]

Not much to say about this short story, compared to the previous one at least. I'm catching my breath...

A long introduction detailing all these new characters (plus showing the wherabouts of Tina, Marie, and Soph), to the point that it's almost a shame that Stasis was on her own for this mission. Maybe next time?

A plastic bag as a gag? I'm a little curious to see how this worked. As a stuff gag?

My favorite part was the short dialogue between Stasis and Cassandra, though the double-meanings of her conversation with Elisha's colleague was a close second. I bet these dialogues were funny to write...

[esercito sconfitto]

"Okay you’ve said hi now let’s move on as I imagine our readers want to get to the USB scenes soon.”

ehe they know they are in a USB tale

[tirepanted3]

It seems like wearing a name badge in one of your stories is a mark of bad luck - a sign of a potential uniform donor being "marked".

The exchange with Cassandra was indeed a highlight, and shows how much Stasis enjoys her work. I would definitely love to see a team-up effort between the various infiltrators, though - seems like you're setting them up for a future story.

[Trackman281]

Many thanks everyone and I'm pleased you all enjoyed it.

Rufusluciusivan - I'll star5t by putting your mind at rest as saying that the plastic bag was a stuffed gag and not a suffocation technique, I promise you that.

Haha, indeed, Stasis's dialogues are always a joy to write, I think Stasis find's herself on her own for a quite a few missions, because as you saw, she isn't afraid to take the mickey out of her fellow sisters plus the commanders always seen to breath a sigh of dread whenever she's around, not in a horrible way of course, they just know how over the top and immature she can sometimes be.

Esercito - While it's true Stasis does seem to have some sort of awareness, or does she? I mean when she mentions stuff like that Marie was completely oblivious to what she just said, it's almost as if time stopped or maybe the others just think she's a bit egotistical and thinks the world revolves around her, honestly the interpretation is entirely up to you.

Tirepanted3 - I'm still a few chapters away yet, but I'd love to set up a group outing, but I'd make into a long arc kind of like what your good self and Rufus always seem to conjure up.

I know what you mean about the name tags, but for some reason when it comes to the mugging scenes I just always have to give the unknowing clothes / uniform victim a name, I don't mind having sort of nameless grunts (I guess you could call them) for just the odd scene but yeah that's it really whenever an infiltrator needs a disguise, the female they mug will always have a name.......Well most of the time.