Fate/School Days - 08
Keiko wandered down the school's hallway. It was after hours, so most of the students had left for the day, except those who took part in the after school clubs. Sakuya had joined the track team after discussion with Sakura-kaasan and Rin-kaasan. Mother had also tried to get Keiko herself involved, but their arguments for 'taking advantage of the high jump bar' only confused her.
She'd briefly considered the archery club, but the slow rate of fire a bow was capable of didn't satisfy her need for projectiles; not to mention the club captain wasn't too pleased when she'd pulled out two air-guns from her school bag out of frustration and proceeded to demolish the target range.
Koyuki and Karin had been touring the remaining clubs, looking for something to catch their interests. She'd found Koyuki watching the shogi club with some interest, but no sign of her other sister. A brief discussion with her quiet sibling had pointed her down this current hallway.
Just before she reached the other end of the corridor, Keiko had to stop suddenly when a door burst open to reveal an annoyed redhead stomping out of the classroom. A cluster of students could be seen through the doorway engaged in some sort of frantic activity. Some of them were half bent over, scuttling across the floor as if chasing something. Keiko shrugged, spun on her heel, and followed Karin back down the hallway.
"What was that?" she asked curiously.
"Idiots," came the curt reply. "They call that a computer club... hah! All they wanted to do was talk about flashy hardware and video games!"
Keiko blinked. "What were you expecting from them?"
"I don't know... coders, programmers, scriptwriters, something!" She pulled at her hair in frustration. "Some of them didn't even know anything about virtual terminals. And none of them knew how to crack the encryption for the school's messaging traffic."
"Um..."
"And they complain so much about the video cards on the school's machines when it's clear that their main problem is the lack of a multi-fractal processing system. There's no way you could hack into government systems with this stuff!"
"You didn't actually..."
"Don't you start too; I've had enough of 'Emiya-san I don't think you should..' or 'Emiya-san isn't that illegal?' I mean, really. I shouldn't have to dive into their Cyber Counter Terrorist networks to redirect a counter probe if I don't have to..." She marched several more steps before she turned around and noticed Keiko had stopped keeping pace with her.
"Do I need to call in an MTS?" Keiko said warily.
Karin fumed for a few moments more, but she did seem to be seriously considering it. Suddenly she blinked and looked sheepish. "Er, I might have... animated the president's cell phone into physically attacking him too..."
Keiko nodded slowly. "O..kay then," as she pulled out her own phone.
"Um."
Keiko paused, her thumb hovering over her speed-dial. "What?" she asked warily.
"...and the rest of the club's phones too." said the suddenly quiet hacker.
Sigh... "Gestalt capabilities?" Keiko asked, her voice sounding resigned.
"Not this time..."
"...M-1/MTS-1 then, just to be safe. And I'm forwarding it to Father, too."
"...'Kay," came the meek reply.
(a/n) - the TFF thread has decided the chaos of the Emiya Clan warrants their own shorthand codes for the situations they find themselves in. hopefully it'll be on the Data Sheets soon but for now:
M-1: rogue mechas (lv1 human sized or smaller)
MTS-1: masquerade threatened school (lv1 small group, 1 family member involved)