The user name appearing below is both a Sailor Moon and Gone With the Wind reference (which could be considered repeating myself since Sailor Moon was referencing Gone With the Wind).
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
Quote:NotAButler_7 08:18 – Gav, missing class today, can you send lecture notes/recording? THX!NotAButler_7 08:21 – Jake, any plans for today? Need a favor! TehJ8kster 08:25 – Before nine? Better be something serious -.-NotAButler_7 08:26 – Seriously serious. I'll owe you. TehJ8kster 08:28 – Fine, but you already owe me.NotAButler_7 08:28 – Thx! Check your email.-----
After clicking send Rhett checked the links his computer, no not simply a computer anymore, the links his new AI Emi sent.
"Um, I know I'll need new clothes but these are all school uniforms."
"Yes? I fail to see a problem. The college really should consider official uniforms. It would simplify things considerably."
"Seriously, the only way to make that last uniform worse would be if you added suspenders. I'll wear a three piece suit every day before I wear that."
"You really don't like them? I suppose a suit would be an acceptable alternative. I'll send new search results now."
"That wasn't a serious offer." Rhett checked the new email and groaned at the message.
If you have time to complain you have time to study. Complete the following review exercises for restored Internet access.
"Joy, trolled by my own creation." But he grabbed pencil and paper anyway and started working. He didn't have anything else to do. Especially with his net connection cut.
A little over an hour and two batches of exercises later Rhett set his pencil down. "Emi?"
"Yes Rhett? And please call me Ema instead."
"What's wrong with Emi?"
"Educational Machine for Instruction is a merely adequate backronym. More importantly I prefer the sound of Ema to Emi, and I have no desire to be mistaken for a little gold statuette."
"Huh? Oh. I hadn't thought of that. Anyway Ema, I need you to restore my Internet access again."
"You have finished the exercises already?"
"Not all of them. But shouldn't I be figuring out how to escape from here or better yet find a way to undo this?"
"I'm sorry Rhett." Ema dropped the speakers to a much softer volume. "I thought you already knew biomodifications are not reversible."
"Yeah but, there has to be a way or I really am screwed. I can't keep going to classes looking like this and I don't have a clue where to run. I don't even have a broken down car to wave and good luck getting one now. Dammit, I don't want to get shot or go to jail or both."
"Rhett, deep breath, calm down. It's not a decade ago, you will get through this if you avoid doing anything foolish."
Rhett pointed at his ears and batted his tail away when it tried drifting around in front of him. "A little late to avoid that."
"Foolish, such as skulking around in the shadows and acting like you have something to hide."
Another wave at his new ears, "Again, a bit late to not hide anything." But he took the suggested deep breath and another before speaking again. "Okay, done panicking for now."
"Thank you. Remember, I am stuck in this box, if either of us has reason to panic it would be me. Even if my wifi seems to have been upgraded that doesn't let me move my cpu."
"Right. So if you aren't panicking you must have reasons to think I'll be safe. So what's..."
His new ears twitched before he finished speaking at the harsh buzzing his phone. The screen had lit up while it vibrated across his desktop. Reading the message on it he climbed up on the desk to look out the window, "Didn't think he'd be here yet, he's already parked."
Only moments later there was a knock at the door. Halfway to it he stopped to shove his tail down the back of his pants and pull on a baseball cap. It wouldn't hide everything but it should be enough to keep anyone just passing down the hall from noticing anything unusual. There was another knock as he approached the door again, Jake's voice calling through this time.
"Rhett? This better not be a prank."
With another deep breath he unlocked and opened the door.
"Hurry in I'll explain, that is, uh..."
Standing just behind Jake was his friend's girlfriend Darcey. Looking between the two of them and the shopping back in Darcey's hands he stepped back and waved them in. Jake turned and closed the door behind them before taking a closer look at Rhett.
"I, Rhett will explain..."
While he tried to figure out what to say Jake simply pulled the cap off Rhett's head. Darcey gasped, but rather than looking scared she poked once at his left ear before checking for a headband.
"I'd wondered why you asked for some of my brother's old clothes."
"Jake, they're real." Darcey had a grin while she give his ears a soft poke again.
"It's not what it... Okay. Yeah. It's exactly what it looks like. And that tickles, could you stop please?"
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.