A Call
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Inside one of the room of the complex that houses Horror Master's real body, the synth body Horror Master is using is sitting in front of an old computer, learning one of the lessons she needed to learn to be a better boss to her minions. Which has been going fast thanks to the sapient AI teaching her SCP-5094 being her teacher.
SCP-5094 is a sapient AI called Miss J who populates the titular late-'90s Edutainment Game. She is able to teach anyone about any subject in utmost detail. The game's anomalous properties were not initially discovered due to its developer going bankrupt, causing it to become abandonware.
Miss J's positive personality and desire to help children and students reach their fullest potential is her greatest quality, with one D-Class that had spent a few sessions with Miss J commenting that she was the best teacher he'd ever had. Students who take her courses have to be dragged away from the screen, and are left in tears when the computer is turned off — not because of some mind-altering effect, but because Miss J is so kind and compassionate that her students grow immensely attached to her.
Taylor has been learning lots from her, better than her old school. She's been learning everything from political science to be a better leader to other fields to make her even better. Under the teaching of Miss J, Taylor learned economics, engineering, social and all the other branches of science. Which was compressed thanks to a time room setup, where it's a year inside and a few minutes on the outside. With a caring teacher and nothing to bother her from learning, her knowledge and mind have expanded.
"Incoming call from the PRT," Charles Foster Ofdensen from that cartoon show Metalocalypse said on the com channel.
In the show he's the CFO/asskicker for Dethklok, and person who keeps them from financially imploding. Now he's the one who helps her keep things in order. He's the one who is working to keep her and the other minions physically, emotionally and financially safe. He also intimidates all the others in her inner circle.
"Who is it this time?" Taylor asked.
"It's Piggot calling about what has been discovered in trying to treat your former bullies to rid them of their nightmares," Ofdensen said.
"Put her on," Taylor said and the voice of Piggot came on.
"Horror Master?" Piggot asked.
"Speaking what you want to talk about?" Horror Master asked.
"I know you have mastered your former bullies to have nightmares that is keeping them from sleeping. I'm asking to stop it, and undo the master effect," Piggot said.
"No, I refuse to allow them to have any peaceful dreams. For years they have tormented me for fun, and suddenly when it's me doing it to them, you and all the others who should had done something sooner, can't move fast enough," Horror Master said.
"We failed you but at the rate the girls are going, all the sleep deprivation has affected the girls brain functions and even their physical health. The only way to make them sleep is by drugging them," Piggot said.
"And I care why? Besides having my revenge on them is very therapeutic. Watching their faces turn to pure terror as they see me and what I did to them before just ran out of things to do to them and I just place them in the white room," Horror Master said. (1)
"From what we managed to get from them, you were doing other things to them before you used white room torture," Piggot said.
"Thanks to being the Horror Master of anything that's horror related, allowed me to work out all of my issues on them. Thanks to a year inside and an hour on the outside, I got to work out all of my issues and got to have years of having payback on them. Besides who's more important now? A cape who caused me to trigger and now you have to deal with an army of characters from just about every horror fiction. What is more important her or to make sure, I won't turn full villain? I can just have Pennywise show up in the PRT base unleashing a bunch of other minions, or just summon the giant monsters to wreck havoc. But of course all of that can easily help during the next endbringer attack. So tell me who is worth more?" Horror Master asked.
"I hope this is worth it," Piggot said.
"Leaving my former tormentors brain damage and all the other health issues that lack of sleep cause? Of course it is. It fills my heart with joy knowing that what I did to them can't be undone, not easily anyways. I went through harsh personal growth and left the three behind completely broken. They're worthless now as it will take years to undo what I did to them, and your agency doesn't care to spent the funds to do that. So just dump the worthless cape move on and make sure I'm not going to go full villain," Horror Master said.
"You already control large parts of the city," Piggot said, the area around the buildings and places that Horror Master had summon are all under her control. The other gangs are keeping clear of Horror Master and her minions.
"Yes, I do. So make sure I have no reason to go full gang leader," Horror Master said ending the call.
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Author's Notes -
1 - Horror Master like in cannon, isn't a hero. She's a villain and thanks to her minions helping deal with all of her metal bagages and her getting to take sweet revenge on her bullies. Many of the moral hang ups that she has in cannon isn't a factor here.
Fictions that appeared -
Metalocalypse
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