Aftermath of the Light: College Girls

Kana was surprised, she and her 5 friends noticed a light that led them to an office, and then she was literally blinded by the light and everything went blank. A quick check of her watch told her it had been a few minutes since she blanked out. It was at that same time she noticed the superhero outfit the sorority had told her to wear, a mock-up of Ms. Midnight (a villain that had turned hero ages ago) was in her arms, she was apparently holding the token they had come to find, and she was in her underwear. She gave a cry of alarm at being in her underwear, ironically just as everyone else was snapping out of their own trances and thus directed to the fact they were in a similar situation. Their voices turned into a chorus of confusion at the situation.

The only thing Kana could recall before everything went blank was a vague memory of a very well-endowed woman in a masked dominatrix outfit, although it could have just been a super busty mannequin someone had placed there as a joke. She took a closer look at the token and groaned in annoyance, "Girls, we have a new destination. The back of this token has an address on it, and there's some smaller text saying to hold on to the token until it instructs otherwise."

Her friend Aisha, a dark-skinned and busty woman, said in an unamused voice, "Well, we were warned by a lot of people that sororities, especially the one we are applying to, like to give their initiates the runaround. So, once we get to wherever the token leads us will likely have us heading somewhere else in town."

The rest of the girls started voicing concerns of the whole thing being nothing more than an exercise in humiliation, which was a fair assessment. The application process worked as if someone had it out for at least one of them. First, they submitted their application forms, fully filled out, and were examined in a completely naked state in one of the sorority's public areas that didn't usually get a whole lot of traffic, then they were told to wear mock-ups of outfits for famous heroines from around the city and told they could only wear their underwear under the suits while each being handed a cheap plastic bag that held the attire they arrived in along with the folded outfits they were **** to wear this entire time, then after that, they left the sorority complex just in time to get hit by the sprinklers. They each stashed the bags with their clothes in their cars and locked them. Then after all that, one of the sorority sisters met them at the parking lot and had told them to go and find a token at an old machine by the end of the day, and they all had to walk to their destination.

Kana wanted to be as informed as possible, so as they made their way to the destination, she checked her smartphone. Thankfully, her costume came with a pocket to put it in later, unfortunately, the pocket was in the ass of her outfit. For some reason, Kana was told she had to wear the Ms. Midnight outfit, the rest of the group was told which outfit went to which girl; they were all nonplussed, especially Aisha after she had to wear the Dark Honey outfit. Dark Honey was a heroine confused for a supervillain during the early years of her crime-fighting career, the city is still dealing with the PR backlash from that time.

That all said, the sorority has had a lot of power in the city for ages. The Alpha Sigma sorority house has a history of soft power in almost half the super-successful businesses in the city. Getting into the sorority would be a godsend for a family, in this city, because it meant getting access to connections and resources that were usually outside one's general means. Kana was a nerd, through and through, she wanted to work in Information Security, she was already set to work a low to mid-level IT job at a moderately successful company, but being part of the sorority would mean more doors in more well-established companies. Yes, she was what many called a "hot nerd" but she really didn't see it, probably because she grew up around people in the image industry most of her life and didn't see how any of her features could qualify her as attractive, at best she could see herself as the before image in a magazine somewhere. Aisha wanted nothing to do with being a model either, she had grown up around far too many immersed in the fashion industry and wanted none the drama that came with that crowd. That was probably why the two of them were fast friends so early in life and remained so into the present.

The group had really been given the run around, it was two or three hours to twilight, and the group had been told they had to go all over the city before being told to specifically go the long way through the campus to the sorority house, a good chunk of which was winding through the campus library. As soon as the group entered the library, the token (which was in her back pocket next to her phone) made a few quick beeps before the voice of an unfamiliar woman started giving directions through the library; they all figured it was a last-minute alteration to the route to further mess with them, so they followed the instructions until they found themselves at the back corner of the reference section on the main floor of the library. A moment later, the instructions to tap the nearest library sign that protruded out was given, followed on instructions to turn it four times in a clockwise fashion; Aisha figured they had nothing to lose at this point since sundown was so close and they still had plenty of time to reapply to the Alpha Sigma house again before the official start of school anyway. Aisha did as instructed; suddenly, a section of the wall near them, which was a gap between shelves, opened up to a stairway passage big enough for the group to enter in single file.

As the group descended the stairs, the dark chamber slowly lit up with motion-sensing lights designed like candles that filled the chamber with enough light to qualify as early dawn or twilight once they were all lit. They were surrounded by a hall of records, and all the shelves and texts had the Alpha Sigma insignia. It was rumored that sororities had secret records but this was ridiculous. All the girls stopped at a sign on a board in front of them that read out a list of 12 criteria, half being physical and two being social, with the last 4 being mental, and all the girls saw that something about them didn't quite meet the criteria when they saw their profiles in dossier folders on the table next to the criteria. The six of them all were in agreement this bullshit wasn't worth it and agreed to not mention where or how they had found these secret records. But there was one question that needed answering, who and when had arranged for them to see all this? Because the Alpha Sigmas clearly wouldn't want their applicants seeing any of this.

On the way out, Kana and Aisha barely noticed a QRE code that was lightly carved into the wall next to the stairs on way up, and both discreetly scanned it with the readers on their phones; their devices almost didn't pick it up. There was a cipher that popped up with a clue about consulting the preferred text of an engineering professor that likely was retired by then. Better than nothing. The girls disbanded to anywhere but the sorority house, with Kana and Aisha being the only ones to go there to say it to the faces of the sisters. They arrived at the sorority house 20 minutes before the deadline. When the sisters opened the door, the pair said they were rescinding their applications to join due to a recent development that came to their attention during the event they were **** to participate in.

The sorority sisters blinked at the two in surprise; not once in the history of the house, to their knowledge, had any applicant made a statement of pulling out of being a potential sister. They didn't look happy; they were looking forward to the rejection ceremony, and these two had just nullified the whole affair with a single sentence, each.

Kana and Aisha returned to the library; the whole thing was set to close and lock up at midnight, to check faculty records; passing by the secret entrance and finding it had already closed off what looked to be its own accord, to see when the instructor named had worked at the school, they could then check class syllabuses for that time to see which outdated tome was something they had to try looking through.