Pass time and Contract Update

There wasn't much to do in the kitchen once they were done and the place was cleaned up. Momo took the lead and suggested they took a look at the area they were in as they weren't entirely sure just where they were.

Looking around they found they were in a wide two story building with an attached garage. Honestly it was almost a one to one copy of Mya's family repair shop only not destroyed. To a worrying degree. She took a bit to marvel at all the tools and devices while the girls looked over the rides. Two coupe cars in red and blue colors that looked almost a little too 'basic' but after finding the maneual, they realized they were built to 'hero' work. While they looked normal, they were reinforced on par or beyond what a police car from their world would be.

Besides those, there was a sports-bike for each of them. All the motorcycles came in colors and designs that was similar to what the girl's hero clothes. Mya's was simply black with red highlights. Much like the cars, these were also super charged for their line of work.

Looking outside they seemed to be in a rather busy area of... some down town city. They would have to check later but give the signs; it seemed like they were in an American city.

Heading back inside the main building; the ground floor had the kitchen, family/living room, utilities room such as washer and dryer, along with an office. Said office seemed to be set up more for handling the garage than anything else, as none of the women would normally have need of it. That said, Momo noted a number of legal books in on the shelves, something handy for their line of work... and she admitted she was in the middle of studying law for a degree.

Second flood hosted the main bedroom, a smaller rec room, and several other smaller bedroom. Now it was the heroes turn to be shocked as each room looked a bit like... well their dorm rooms.

Ochako's rather bare and low budget room..., honestly it reminded Mya a bit more of her own place only nicer with maybe a few hundred above hers. Kyoka had kept all her band stuff, including her big speakers. Momo's was... pretty fancy considering; Kyoka might have more 'money' in her room with her devices but Momo's was far more ... 'high class' and with a lot of books too.

Mina and Toru's both had a bit too much fluff and pink; the only real difference was the tone. Toru's looked more normal and Mina's looked a bit more... wild, chill and out there. The bean bags were a bit of a tell. Only Tsuyu's room seemed what Mya would call normal. The little 'frog' theme and aquarium aside that was.

"So... at least they aren't... entirely forcing us together." Momo sighed out as they gathered in the small second floor rec room.

"Yeah but I noticed I don't have room." Mya huffed as she leaned into her big comfy chair. She could really fall asleep in it.

"Had to guess, probably cause you're the 'master' or something." Kyoka noted as she adjusted her guitar a bit, "Big bedroom is yours, we're just your little harem girls or something."

"I mean if you WANT that room, trade yah."

"....I'll pass." she shrugged before focusing back on her 'work'. "Besides it'd be a pain to get all my stuff in there."

"Fair enough I guess. Besides the garage seems more up my alley anyway. ... maybe get a hammock out there if you girls want."

"So you are a mechanic."

"Yeah, the jump suit isn't just for show. Mainly car repair but a few other odds and ends... kinda. Long story." Mya said as she turned to the long black haired woman, "Momo was it?

"Yes. And yes, the garage seems to be yours." she laid out a handful of documents onto a nearby coffee table, "Though we all strictly have 'ownership' of the house, it seems to be in your name. Which legally, you'd have more of a claim to it if courts were called in. We're more akin to 'roomates' than anything."

"So do I charge you rent now or later?" she held up her hands, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding."

"If we swapped rooms maybe I'd pay rent then." Mina said as she snatched up some documents and flipped though them, "Let's see...; wedding license, IDs, referral sheet, multiverse teleporter instructions, catalogue. Blah blah blah..."

"Wait... what was that last one?" several of them asked at once.

"The catalogue?"

"NO you... just gimme!" Kyoka snatched the offered page and flipped though it before giving a sigh and handing it over to Momo.

Mya took this time to walk over and look over the woman's shoulder. Damn the girl was big..., could she even tie her shoes like this?

"Hmmm, if I'm understanding this right; the device in question has a two week warm up and cool down time. So we're stuck here for the moment."

"Yeah...," Mya muttered a bit distracted by those large tracks of land, "Err, well least it seems to be easy to use. Just put something in from said world and it breaks down where it came from. Or...., 'source material'?"

"If this is truly a multiverse traveling machine, then think about it Mya." she turned to look up at the mechanic, "Those..., 'X-men' you brought up before. It could be possible to visit a reality where they exist."

"Damn..., I could have hooked with Storm then?"

A slight grin was on her face. Storm was a bit of a fantasy for her after she discovered she liked girls but even before that she was a bit of a role model to her. Granted Mya didn't really keep up with much in the way of comics so who knows what version of Storm the match making service would matched her too. Wait a minute, if the service could match her with a comic book character...

"Wait, where are you...."

"My Hero Academia."

The group turned to the quiet Tsuyu who simply turned her laptop to face the group. On her screen was an image of well, them. On the cover of manga, anime clips, trending on social with fanart and discussion, and ALL the shipping; it was a little overwhelming. The reactions were a bit mixed; Ochako and Momo were a bit embarrassed, Kyoka was miffed as per usual, while Mina and Toru each traded comments about how the group looked compared to their old figures.

"So are we... fake in this world?" Ochako asked, her voice starting to tremble.

"Not in this world..., Cupid seems to have it so that we can visit each other's net, kero." Tsuyu explained as she took her laptop back, forcing the women to switch to their mobiles, "We're a story in Mya's world but not in this one."

Ochako breathed a sigh of relief, only to tense up when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned her head and saw the unexpected skin tone. Pulling away would be rude but she didn't untense. Mya seemed like a nice person but this was all still rather..., awkward. A bit of a smile came over Mya's lips as she removed her hand with a weak nod.

"Yeah I get it... kinda? I guess? Not really. Kinda hard to come to terms that you're just a story in one world. That can't be good for like... mental health and stress I guess." she offered, hoping that she wasn't putting her foot in her mouth.

"Upside is people seem to like us." Mina offered as she flipped though the pages, "Though some people hate us... and some people really hate us."

"EH fuck em." Mya shrugged, "Some people get way too invested into fandom shit to the point that series is their entire life or at least free time. Love or hate; it all kinda blurs together after a certain point..., hey did you guys have fan clubs?"

"Us? No..., maybe Momo and Kyoka since they were more well known or at least more... connected? Socially mobile? Momo's pretty popular and Kyoka had a few CDs that got some underground music fame to her."

"...., it was only two." Kyoka muttered but Mya noted the blush on her face and the little bit of pride that made her puff up her chest.

"Hehe... you look cute like that rather than looking gloomy all the time." Mya offered which sent Kyoka off on another annoyed blush, "What, I'm just saying."

"I suppose I should ask this then and... I believe we all assumed or guess this." Momo said as she put her mobile to the side and looked a Mya, "I'm sorry if this is..., the wrong way to ask. Mya given you said you 'could have hooked up with Storm' and saying Kyoka's cute; I'm assume you are a Lesbian correct?"

All the women stopped what they were doing and gave Mya a look. Waiting to see how she would answer. She just rubbed the back of her head and started to speak before feeling the dryness of her throat. Leaning over she grabbed a bottle of water to get some mostiure back into her before licking her lips and taking a sigh to steel herself.

"Yeah. I'm a Lesbian; I like girls. Realized that about myself during puberty and high-school." she held up a hand, "But that doesn't make me some sort of wicked creepier or something, just that I like girls. I'm not gonna peak on you or pin you to a wall or something just cause of my sexuality. Any more than your average guy would do so. I'm guessing you lot had a couple male friends or even boyfriends that wouldn't just like, outright fondle or oggle you right?"

Outside of Minoru; that was basically the case. Sure they might get a few ideas when they went to the beach or the like but it wasn't like they were consistenly fantasizing over them.

"That said..., I'd be lying if I didn't think you all were either cute or drop dead gorgeous in your own right but considering the weirdness going on; I'm not gonna like **** anything. And while I'll not peak on purpose... this is kinda a roommate/dorm set up. Walking in on people is gonna be a risk; just don't like... drop kick me or anything."

"Basically just treat me like you would any guy you'd be living with a for a bit and we'll get along fine. Only I might yoink your soap or shampoo compared to them, got it? Granted I hope whoever is in charge fixes this real fast."

"Why would they pair us with you though, I mean..., we're all straight." Ochako muttered, her face blushing as she thought about the act.

"Dunno. Maybe someone in Cupid's has a thing for 'Lesbian seduces straight girls' or something."

"That or you got a huge dick." Mina said with a grin.

Her friends chided her about being that blunt to varies degrees of annoance or shock but she kept that big grin on her face. Mya's face flushed herself as she gave a weak cough. Pinkie was pretty blunt about things it seemed.

"No I don't have... a dick. I checked down there and I'm just as normal as another gal around."

"That so?" Mina said, that look still not leaving her face, "Well I jokingly put that as a 'qualifier' for the 'perfect match' we were putting together for a laugh so can't blame me for asking."

"Hang one lemme check." Mya said, closing her eyes and clentching her jaw. When she was done she wiggled her hips a bit in the chair she was in. "Nah I don't feel any different. Can't seem to 'will' something like that into existance."

"Eh, guess we put that up to another one of Cupid's errors, huh?" Toru said as she stretched out onto the sofa, her head coming to rest on Mina's legs, "Think I heard about a few people in our world that could do that sort of thing though. But they were usually like... shape shifters in the first place anyway."

"Yeah well they didn't seem to give me any thing besides a new place and a new bod. So hopefully they'll fix everything in.."

The small tv screen in the area lit up with pink lights and a cheery 'love' tune before fading back to black and the little white decal man figure showed up again. The group sat up in shock or attention at this, which meant one or two tumbled to the floor in the sudden movement. The figure put it's little cylinder arm to it's mouth before coughing and spoke.

"Hello ladies, glad to see you're settling in." he paused for a moment. Mya wasn't sure if he was 'looking around the room' which was hard to tell given the little stick figure didn't have eyes nor really moved it's head, or if he was waiting on a 'thank you' from the girls. When nothing came of it, the figure went on.

"Ah well... okay fine to business." there was a sound of a keyboard and the contract appeared on the screen.

"See usually the contract we make with you is a one to one match, as I mentioned. The system breaks when it tries to match more people. This is the 'standard' contract. BUT it took some digging, like a LOT of digging, but we found a sub contract with a different clause to it. After MUCH discussion with the bosses upstairs, we decided to shift you to this track. It was made to cater to .... certain set ups like this."

Another contract popped up on the other side of the screen. There was a lot of legal mumbo jumbo and several lanaguages none of them knew. Some of them even hurt to look at let alone read. But in big bold font at the top was the following words. Words they all could read and understand.

"The Harem Clause".

"This was drawn up in case any of those harem protags stumbled into the program. There are a LOT of them fyi so we had to find a way of sorting them out if they ever showed up with half a classroom of possible girls. Thus the Harem Contract. Here's how it works."

The contract flipped open, showing several stick figures engaged in different actions. Usually talking to each other, or first dates, getting close to each other on the couch and so on.

"The Clause runs for a year; roughly the length of one of these harem shows... the bad ones that get only a season maybe a spin off or so but you get the point. Over the next year, Mya known from this point as the Lead, will have the chance to woo and wed the lot of you, known from here on as Members. You'll all be allowed to live in the supplied house for the duration of this time. If she's able to woo you ie, get you into bed willingly, love confession, hot make out in the car, or a love song in her honor whatever, the marriage contract will operate as normal."

"However anyone at the end of the year that hasn't finalized this contract will be returned back to their world. We'll even offer to put you back the day after you made the contract."

"So the morning after the slumber party..." Momo mused as she cupped her chin in thought, "But what happens if no one marries her?"

"It's simple. The Members will be returned back to their own world, the day after they made the contract, and will forget this ever happened save for maybe some odd dreams and maybe a few trinkets as souvenirs. "

The girls cheered at this news, it was everything they had wanted. None of them wanted to be here or be married to a random woman. Mya seemed nice enough but honestly they all wanted to just go home and forget this ever happened safe for maybe a few fun jokes of an error in some computer system. They all started chatting about how easy it would be, even Mya pointed out she could just live on the other side of the building when a voice spoke up.

"Errr..., Mr. Admin? You mentioned we... the Members that is, would go back home like normal." Tsuyu spoke, her words a bit slow as she thought this over, "But... what happens to the Lead? What happens to Mya."

"Hey... that's right!" Ochako puffed up her cheeks in anger, "Why didn't you mention her."

"As Lead, Mya's failure to properly woo anyone Cupid will lead to her being... well I don't want to say punished..., but she'd be put back into the candidate pool just with a tweaked contract on her part to better widen the pool of possible candidates. And given that she would have failed to woo six candidates..., well that's going to be a pretty wide pool now."

"HEY wait a minute!" Mya stood as she got mad, "The hell do you mean 'widening the pool', I ain't some trophy you can give to others cause I failed here."

"Yeah that's not fair to her!" Mina spoke up with her hands clenched, "She's nice enough, you can't punish her for your mistake!"

All the others spoke up too with varying levels of volume but equal in their dislike of this move. They didn't want to see someone punished or pushed into an even worse marriage to save themselves. This was unjust; to throw someone else under the bus like that went against a lot of their beliefs and training as heroes. The little figure talking to them just shrugged... or at least kinda looked like it shrugged.

"Sorry girls, that's the best we can do. Though that said, you can still move to break the contract in either case. But the system is able to process you far easier under these rules. It'll give you more flexibility and access to more feature than you would if you were still in the 'couple to be' phase. That is unless you want to go back to the earlier one."

No one spoke, only looking at the floor or grumbled.

"I thought so. Look I know it's not the answer you wanted but that's all we can do for you. Though we can grant Miss Mya here a gift to help with being more compatible to your tastes and life style. You'll find that down in the garage office. Now I'm off to handle another issue but I'll be checking on your case from time to time. Ciao ladies and thanks for using our site."

With that the screen dimmed and the tv turned itself off. It took awhile to process this news.., well maybe not understand it but it took them awhile to figure out just how to put it into words. Mya spoke first and put it as bluntly as any of them could.

"So..., rather than marrying all of you, I'm on a Cross dimensional version of the Bachelor."

After a moment of silence, Tsuyu spoke up. "What's the Bachelor?"

"Gonna need to explain this I guess..." Mya grunted as she brought up her mobile and started searching.