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Chapter Six: Pop Goes the World

  Content Warnings: Transphobia, wasting away, sickness, deadnaming.

  Saturday, September 16th, 1752

  "Okay, don't panic, don't panic. Good. You slowed time nearly to a halt, Just need to unfreeze Ashleigh and Zoria. Zoria. Good name choice, sister." Evie says to herself after hearing and seeing the translocationer beep and fsh loudly and brightly.

  Not far away from Ashleigh's quantum translocated house, Benjamin Franklin is frozen in time stitching up a kite for a future experiment.

  Constance is frozen in time serving up game and beer at her family's tavern.

  A te 21st century film crew doing location shooting in Edo-era Japan are frozen in time as they were shooting b-roll footage for a new movie.

  A group of sve catching colonizers on a boat are frozen in time looking up at the sky

  Ashleigh is frozen in time opening the injection needle

  Zoria is frozen in time watching Ashleigh open the injection needle

  Evie touches Ashleigh, then touches Zoria unfreezing them and joining Evie in the frozen time.

  "Girls. We need to get out of here NOW." Evie commands

  "Can it wait, Zoria is needing her first injection and I’m about to lock in the second needle to the syringe"

  "There is no time”

  "There is always time, that is something you need to le-" Ashleigh starts to say as she completes twisting and locking the needle in

  "No, you misunderstood me THERE IS NO TIME! As in literally no time. The world, no, the universe ends in less than a second. I thought the shredder was a theory, a hypothetical, but Jexia must have finished it. FUCK!”

  Evie leads Ashleigh and Zoria out of the house as Evie also scans the house as it seems to have digitized and stored to the translocationer with Emoria inside.

  "We're going NOW" Evie pushes a button on the translocationer and a purple spiraly portal appears with a gush of wind

  "GO! GO!" Evie commands

  As the three jump into the portal and the portal closes after them, time restores.

  The universe was no more as it as turned into a card and then shredded by Jexia's shredder not even a millionth of a thousandth of a second ter

  END OF PART ONE

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  Thursday, June 18th, 1987

  While Chrissy is pying with Emoria with a cat toy Zuniper just bought, Zuniper is with Annie as she puts on the clothes they got while they were out at the mall.

  "Damn girl, 48DDs!" Zuniper says shocked when Annie takes off her bra to try on a pair of newly bought ones

  "Yeah, grew those myself, with a little help from estradiol injections and progesterone capsules" Annie replies as she takes the 4XL men's shirts out of the bag and lies them out on the couch

  "Scissors" Annie says towards Zuniper as Zuniper goes into the sewing cabinet to get the fabric scissors

  Annie begins to cut the colrs off of the shirts to get rid of the constricting neckline and to make it more feminine. Out of the six shirts, she also makes crop tops out of three of them.

  "Much better, I would say" Annie says to nobody particur as she puts on one of the newly made crop tops

  "Damn, you're sexy" Zuniper says before kissing

  "I know I am. Fuck yeah, I'm hot" Annie replies after her and Zuniper's lips part ways.

  "Hey, lovergirls, save some of those kisses for me!" Chrissy says to the two, this day being one of her good days, even though she wasn’t able to go with them to the mall.

  "Hey, you know what I love about you, Ann?" Chrissy asks while she gets up and walk over to Annie as she takes a look in the full length mirror.

  "Oh, what do you love about me?" Annie asks as Chrissy wraps her arms around Annie’s exposed apron belly

  "There's so much of you and you're so soft like a pillow" Chrissy answers, then she continues

  "I miss being this big, before I got sick recently. Lost it so fast, we all got tested, but it wasn't HIV or AIDS, which was a relief”

  Not wanting to ruin the moment and not wanting to press the issue, Zuniper decides to not say anything. Not when she's having such a good day like today.

  Chrissy heads to her room that she shares as a cuddle space. She rummages through her wardrobe and takes out a few belts and dresses

  "Try these on, beautiful" Chrissy says as she hands Annie the colorful and vintage plus-sized clothing.

  As Annie goes into Chrissy's room to try the outfits on, the other two women have a talk

  "It's Annie, she's without her hormones, isn't she" Chrissy asks drawing out her southern drawl

  "Yeah. It's not right. At least she's got her balls removed" Zuniper says.

  "It's not really much of a comfort though" Chrissy points out

  "It's really not. Better than the alternative I suppose"

  "You're right, but still"

  "I know, but remember we're a resourceful house, Emily is already trying to secure some for her and for us”

  “Yeah, but it may be a long while, and there’s no guarantee she can”

  “Then we think of something else. We always do, Chrissybear” Zuniper says using her nickname for Chrissy.

  “Yeah, of course. I do want to be here for us” Chrissy says, causing Zuniper to raise one of her eyebrows.

  “Like you always tell me, ‘You have to stay alive to outlive the bastards, survive and stay alive to wake up to see tomorrow’”

  Annie walks out of the room wearing a bck and pink polka dotted dress that hugs her curves in all the right ways, especially her bust and belly. With the bck belt perfectly fitting on her waist.

  Zuniper and Chrissy are speechless as they struggle to find the right words to describe their new lover in her radiant beauty.

  "Chrissy this dress looks great on me, and the belt just completes the look!" Annie says

  "I...I...I....I'm gd it does" Chrissy says in a lovestruck voice. Taken over by desire, Chrissy pulls Annie over for an intense kiss. It was her turn after all.

  "Mmm, the future tastes like doublemint gum" Chrissy quietly says to Annie"

  "The future. Does it still have Saturday morning cartoons" Chrissy asks

  "It doesn't. Everything's on cable or on the internet. The networks just show sports all day on Saturdays"

  "The Internet?" Chrissy asks very confused

  “No Saturday morning cartoons? Oh gods the future is a bleak one” Zuniper says shaking her head

  "I hope you live long enough to know what the internet is, but I also hope you don't" Annie replies with a peppy tone that got jaded near the end.

  "Huh?" Chrissy expresses

  "Very, very long story, Hopefully I can tell you one day!"

  "Looking forward to it" Chrissy says.

  "Does it mean?" Zuniper asks

  "Yes, I'm going to get tested and screened and poked or whatever. I just met Annie and I don't want to let both her and you go without a fight" Chrissy says with a hint of spiteful defiance.

  ‘You really did mean it! Oh, thank you thank you, I don't know how I would be without you. I hope to never find out" Zuniper says with relief.

  "I want to tell you so much about the death of video stores" Annie says

  "Babe, Video stores will never die" Chrissy replies with a very serious tone in her voice.

  "Let's try on more of those dresses hottie." Zuniper says, all three of them knowing that that is not what they're pnning to do in Chrissy's room.

  I want to see more of those thick, sexy thighs" Chrissy says to Annie as Annie begins to giggle while Zuniper takes off Annie’s dress.

  Chrissy looks down at Annie’s bulging panties “Oh that looks tasty”

  A couple of hours pass

  As the three of them finish, Both Zuniper and Chrissy looks at Annie's nude fat, transsexual, and womanly body in awe and admiration

  "You're such a beauty" Zuniper says as she traces a finger on Annie's shoulder.

  "I am. It took me forever to see it"

  "Gd you see it now”

  "I'm gd too, Chrissy" Annie replies.

  Sighing, Chrissy responds “Whatever I have, it took all my curves away. Don’t get me wrong, it did give me a figure underneath that’s now out in the open, it’s just, I didn’t want it to happen like this, and I wish I kept a little softness.”

  Annie pulls Chrissy into a big hug as Zuniper joins in.

  “Hey, you’re beautiful. One day you’ll be the soft girl I fell in love with again”

  “Oh, I really hope so.

  They snuggled for hours until Zuniper had to leave for the diner for work. Leaving the two alone for the night. Ultimately they just cuddled, but to the both of the them, it was much more intimate than the sex, by orders of magnitude.

  While at the diner, Zuniper can't think of anything else but her two loves. Chrissy, a girl she met at the transsexual therapist's office nearly five years prior, a woman who she also considers her 'spirit sister’

  Then there's Annie the "older" woman from nearly 40 years into the future. A hot woman lost in time who wandered though those doors just a couple of nights ago at 4 in the damn morning.

  Zuniper then goes back to bookkeeping work while sipping an a cherry vanil diet coke

  As Chrissy is cuddled by Annie on the floor of mattresses she begins to feel woozy.

  "Chrissy, are you okay?" Annie asks

  "I'll be fine, the past day and a half just took a lot out of me" Chrissy replies.

  Annie pulls her in closer. "Let me be your anchor tonight"

  "Yeah, that sounds lovely, babe”

  Annie notices Chrissy deep in thought again “What is it, Chrissykitty? What has you making your face scrunchy right now?”

  Chrissy smiles at the nickname she was just given and then begins to say with admiration “Annie, Tell me more about the future, at least the future you’re from. Can you grant a dying girl that?”

  “First of all, you need to listen to your own advice and outlive the bastards.” Annie starts.

  “Secondly, promise me you’ll live so that you can live it with us”

  “I promise, Annie. I promise to live.”

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  Monday, July 8th, 1996

  Alison August (nee Alison#XS-9876) is sitting in her kitchen as her totino's party pizza is in the oven, jazzed up with added cheese, bacon bits and slices of sami.

  Becks is working on her ptop writing her short stories. She is currently writing one about the day when Alison appeared out of nowhere and into her heart. Becks also thinks the it could be a novel on its own, it is definitely starting to get quite a word count.

  As the pizza finishes and cools, Alison cuts it in half and makes a pte with both halves for Becks, as Alison pces a premade stroganoff meal from a local steakhouse in the microwave. Becks gets up from her desk and grabs her lunch.

  "Aww, you jazzed it up for me" Becks says to Alison as she kisses her humanatron wife on her forehead.

  Becks reaches into the fridge and grabs a bottle of fruitopia.

  As the microwave finishes up heating Alison's lunch, Alison quickly reopens the fridge and gets the inferno hot sauce she loves.

  "I still can't believe you put that sauce on everything" Becks says in a 'Of course she's doing this again' tone.

  "I like it, and besides it really brings out the taste of the meat and cream."

  "I think you like the taste of the pain"

  "You'd be right" Alison replies

  After their lunch, Alison plops herself on the couch turning on the Ultra Nintendo and loading up Super Mario Gaxy the newest 3D Super Mario game after the first one, Super Mario World was released for the Super Nintendo a few years back. The leaps in technology by integrating tech from her old world has improved the quality of life on the pnet. It wasn’t just that in the past near eleven years.

  The Humanatron representatives in the merged governments across the world have written protections for not just themselves but also trans humans and humanatrons alike. While some jurisdictions do not have these protections, the west coast and a few other states do with bipartisan support in those states. The reason is that not all governments have merged.

  The reason this was the case is that much like Becks, Humanity has gotten to know the humanatrons over the years and became cssmates, co-workers, teammates, friends and for some, lovers and partners. Some have gotten married, including Rebekah and Alison August.

  As she finishes the first level, Becks joins her on the couch to read a book she just bought dealing with a time machine built from a old tilt-a-whirl and a crashed time ship.

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  Tuesday, February 10th, 2026

  After the phone call with Zuniper, Annie gets a call from the supermarket and it's confirmed that she is off the next few nights to Annie’s massive relief.

  So they decided to leave the house for a while and take in a movie at a theatre that shows retro movies. They saw that the Matrix was pying and the couple have not watched it in nearly two decades and they kept reading how it’s a trans allegory, but never really seen it for themselves. They decided to change that.

  After a showing of The Matrix, the two of them talk about how the movie meant more to them now as transitioned trans women.

  "OMG, I totally get it now, it was completely talking about what we go through and the bullshit society is" Ashleigh tells Annie

  "I know!”

  "The splinter in your mind, Ann. I thought that was some pretentious bullshit, but it's error message that dysphoria sends"

  "Yeah."

  The two continue to talk through the night as they go to the supermarket Annie works for to grab a couple of drinks.

  "No, but seriously Trinity is Neo's true image, see how they look alike?”

  " I don't see it Ash"

  "I'm looking it up and I'm not the only one who sees it that way" Ashleigh says to Annie as they get a shopping basket to put the drinks and snacks in.

  "Even if that's the case, why are they different characters"

  "Annie, it's an allegory, don't think so literally”

  As they eat, Annie is noticed by Gwen and Tammy who were sitting in the little seating area next to the supermarket’s deli waiting for more potato wedges to be made. Tammy waves to Ashleigh and Annie to come over.

  "OMG, never thought we'd meet up again!" Tammy squeals

  Ashleigh and Annie pull up a chair each and joins the two younger women, the two twenty-somethings looking at the two older women as if they were their future.

  "Hi, my name is Tammy Hale, and her name is Gwen Stevenson"

  I believe you met us at this supermarket this morning.

  "Yeah, my name is Annie Boles and this is Ashleigh McFarlin”

  "So are you two students at the college?" Ashleigh asks

  "Nah, I'm a dropout and Tammy graduated a few years ago" Gwen answers

  "Yeah, child prodigy. graduated at 19, that was six years ago"

  "So what are you doing now?" Annie asks the two

  Gwen answers first "Got a shop where I make designs, sell them as stickers, shirts, or whatever. I also do pottery on the weekends"

  Tammy then answers with “I would have loved to use my degree to get into a graduate astrophysics program, but I don’t have the funds to continue. So I mainly work as a delivery driver. In my spare time, I work at my family’s vintage clothing store.”

  "Oh that's where you get your fashions?" Annie asks

  "Yeah, Wish we had fashions for your beautiful figure" Tammy says sadly

  "I do too”

  Looking at the time, Ashleigh and Annie realized that they have to go as they're not as young as they used to be, as Gwen and Tammy got their freshly made potato wedges.

  As they all get into the self-checkout kiosks, they wish Gwen and Tammy well, exchanged contact info and promised to keep in touch.

  “They’re nice girls" Annie says

  "Yeah, I wish I was myself at that age"

  "I do too. but we get to be ourselves now"

  "Hot middle-aged trans women?" Ashleigh says

  "Oh, hell yeah.”

  They return home to an pissy Emoria. She was not happy that they left the house unscheduled.

  "That's a cat for you" Annie says. "Come on, you silly orange tabby"

  "I think we need to spend some time on the bed giving you scritches"

  “Meow!"

  Ashleigh takes out a mug from a brown cardboard box filled with bubble wrap and the mug having brown paper inside. The mug says 'Sorry about your son, but she's my pet now *clicker sound*"

  "OMFG, Ellie!”

  Ashleigh washes the mug and it joins the other three.

  "Ellie, you have a very strange sense of humor, but this tranny loves you for it"

  Ashleigh sits on the couch and finishes the unhinged queer christmas movie she was watching that morning.

  About an half hour ter, her phone buzzes as she continued her GreenLeaf thread.

  Ashleigh gets a message from her mother calling her ███████ asking if 'he' can come home and visit. She misses ███████ very much.

  Ashleigh screams“OH FUCKING GODDAMMIT MOM! IT’S BEEN YEARS SINCE I STARTED TRANSITIONING AND YOU STILL DON’T SEE ME AS YOUR DAUGHTER! INSTEAD YOU HAVE TO BE BENEATH A NO GOOD STINKY ASS GAS STATION DUMPSTER SUSHI SOLD IN A LANDLOCKED STATE!”

  Annie comes out of the room and comforts Ashleigh after the rant woke her up.

  Ashleigh deletes the message. Her night ruined. She turns it on her comfort show from her childhood, 'Clueless.'

  It calms her down a bit, but she is still shattered by the fucking disrespect from her family.

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  Friday, June 19th, 1987

  Zuniper comes home from the diner with a takeout box that she immediately puts in the fridge. She walks into Chrissy's room and she sees her girls awake early.

  "Oh, what's got you two awake at 5:30 in the morning" Zuniper asks them both

  "Chrissy wanted to introduce me to Xanadu" Annie answers

  "No! You didn't subject her to Xanadu?!" Zuniper asks incredulously

  "I did!" Chrissy answers.

  "It was actually pretty good" Annie says

  "Annie, it's one of the worst movies ever" Zuniper tells her

  "That's what's makes it so good!”

  "Chrissy, I got you your steak and eggs"

  "Oh yay!!!!!"

  "Oh, didn't get me anything?" Annie asks, pretending to be disappointed

  "Oh, I got you something. Me" Zuniper says right before kissing Annie.

  "Ooooh, I like that”

  When Chrissy opens the takeout box. It was overflowing despite the size of it.

  "Zuniper! You should have said it was for all three of us."

  "Oh, did I forget?" Zuniper pretends to ask. The takeout container was two of them taped together with three rge steaks and a 12 egg scramble.

  The three begin eating after Chrissy puts in 'Howard the Duck” and Zuniper grabbed three ptes, steak knives and forks

  "Chrissy, I question your taste sometimes" Zuniper said

  "GASP, Are you breaking up with me, a sick girl?" Chrissy exaggerates “Can you believe it, Annie?

  “I mean, really Zuniper? The audacity!”

  "I would NEVER"

  Annie kisses both of them

  "You both have excellent taste" Annie tells them both.

  The three of them fall asleep from both a food coma and a long night about a third of the way into the movie.

  A few hours ter they wake up at around 11am to Chrissy's radio pying 'Pop Goes the World'

  They then continue the movie after Annie gets her kitty into the room.

  “Be a good girl, kitty”

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  Alison and Becks continue to sit on the couch. They talked about Becks' book reading and Alison's game pying. They only got up for the little things like using the bathroom and moving around a bit.

  Most of the time though, they stayed quiet and content with each other.

  With the July sun still up in the sky at 8pm. Becks and Allison decide to take a walk on the beach.

  Walking alongside the ocean, they find a quiet spot where there isn't a lot of people or humanatrons around as the sun starts to go down for the night.

  “Oh, isn’t this a lovely sight” Alison says as she points at the Pacific Ocean crashing into the Southern Californian coastline.

  “It is, It’s so comforting to just be with you and just live our days quietly with each other” Becks replied with contentment in her voice.

  “I hope we have more days like today where we just enjoy each other’s presence” Alison says as a gust of wind begins to kick up as a purple portal appears

  The first to come out of the portal is Zoria who is completely bewildered.

  The second to come out is Ashleigh who is just as confused, but she recognizes that she's in a more recent era

  The st to exit is Evie. She had a look of pure dread and worry

  "Are you two okay?”

  Ashleigh and Zoria answered in the affirmative.

  "OMG!! We're still alive!!!!!" Evie screams

  "Um, we have an audience" Ashleigh says.

  Alison and Becks both stare at the three with their mouths completely open.

  "Um, Hi. My name is Ashleigh and this is Evie and Zoria" Ashleigh says to the couple.

  Ashleigh notices the blue lighting and the slight robotic movements of Alison.

  "I never thought I say this but holy fuck, you're an fully sentient, multi-functional automaton!"

  "Also, Emoria better be alive in there, Evie." Alison says, pointing at the translocationer

  Alison and Rebekah both faint as the purple spiral closes.

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  “UGH! Not only has Alia not only disconnect from the neural net completely. His translocationer is completely untrackable too.” Jexia angrily says from Evie’s old room. “That’s okay, we’re going old school.”

  Jexia presses a few buttons on her translocationer. “I’m going to track quantum signatures."

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