Kessie's Short Stories

[MNo9] Little Sister

Originally published 1/18/2019

"You know Beck, Cryo's had this poor thing since the professor announced he was going to build Avi. She was so mad to learn that he wouldn't make any more female Numbers, that she actually ran away. Took awhile to find her, and when we did, she had this thing in her arms and calling it her little sister..."

-Pyrogen to Beck, Pier Pressure

. . .

Cryosphere could never explain why, but she had always liked the idea of having little sisters. It must have started after Dynatron was finished -the two had hit it off rather well on first impressions- and that helped fuel Cryo's desire for more.

Then Seismic was created. Now, don't get her wrong, Cryo really does love Mighty Number Four and his hugs are bar none. But after his first handful of Battle Colosseum wins, Mic's head started to inflate and his attitude became unbearable. For several months, Mic was not someone Cryo (or anyone else for that matter) wanted to be around; it wasn't until Pryogen's old friend, Troilus, took Seismic down single handedly at what seemed to be a curb-stomp battle in Mic's favor. (And it was, just not for Mic.) After that, Mighty Number Four calmed down a bit and became the best brother to hug in times of hugging emergencies. Cryo liked that, it worked despite Mic not being a girl.

And then Battalion was created. When Doctor White told the Mighty Numbers about Bat's basic theme, Cryo already knew that Mighty Number Five was going to be assigned as a boy. She was annoyed then, the ratio between the two genders were now in favor of the guys; and when you want more sisters than brothers, it will make you incredibly irritable. Cryo wasn't even subtle about her dismay either. She'd tell Dyna, sometimes she's even tell Pyrogen. But when she got a hold of Doctor White himself? He'd have to force her out of the room -or tell her a lie that seemed to soothe her for the moment- before she would even remotely leave him alone.

Now the Professor was starting to shut himself away from the world again. He always did this when he was about to reveal a new Mighty Number- which means that Cryo always filled up with hope for a new sister.

"The odds are literally 50/50 Cryo." Pyrogen told her as she paced outside the professor's door, waiting for him to come out with the blueprint for the new Mighty Number. "You need to relax a little."

"I'm so perfectly 'chill'-ed that I'm getting goosebumps!" Cryo replied with an ecstatic giggle. "Don't tell me to 'cool' off when you're the hot head!"

Mighty Number One let out a small chuckle. "Just don't get too excited this time, you nearly blew one of your cooling regulators last time."

But Cryo chose to ignore him, deterring the subject by asking, "'Water' you want Pyro?"

"Doesn't matter to me, I'm just glad our family is growing." Pyrogen decided. "Besides, with current trends, at least one of us at some point will be nonbinary, so it shouldn't matter what the gender OS is."

"Why do you have to be such a 'wet' blanket?" Cryosphere whined, making the sound of sticking her tongue out at him, despite him not being able to see it from under her helmet.

"Just trying to keep you from 'burning' out." Number One mused with a smirk. Despite being a pun appreciator, Cryosphere let out a groan of disgust just as Doctor White came out from his private lab.

"What's the news, Professor?" Pyrogen asked his creator, smiling a little. Cyrosphere turned around and gave Doctor White a rather unexpected hug.

"So Professor," Cyro immediately -and very sweetly- inquired, "Boy or a girl?"