Sasha and Susan’s Mansion, Beverly Hills, California:
“Man, today feels nice.” Sasha was floating around on an innertube in the pool.
All the kids were busy doing their own thing, and it was just Sasha and her wife, Susan. Neither one of them was wearing a swimsuit. They were in their birthday suits, enjoying the sun.
“I agree.” Susan dives into the pool and does a few laps.
It wasn’t often that Susan and Sasha had the pool to themselves. Both loved their daughters, but sometimes, they just wanted some time to themselves. Susan does at least fifty freestyle laps and then switches to practicing her backstroke.
An evil idea surfaces in Susan’s head. She disappears underwater and swims over towards where Sasha is floating. She reaches up and pinches her wife’s butt, and swims away.
Sasha jumps when she feels her butt get pinched. She turns when she hears laughter coming from behind her. She turns and looks directly at her wife.
Susan had swum away and surfaced when she noticed Sasha jump out of the innertube she was floating around. She couldn’t stop herself from laughing at her wife.
“Oh, you think it was funny, didn’t you?” Sasha splashes Susan.
“Yeah!” Susan ducks underwater before the water hits her.
Sasha looks around for her wife. She knew Susan was sneaky and was good at popping up unexpectedly. She feels her butt pinched again.
“Owe!”
Sasha is thrown into the water as the innertube she sits on flips up. She tries to get her feet under her, but her legs are swept out from under her. She feels a set of hands push down on her shoulder and laughs.
Sasha spatters as she tries to catch her breath before she goes underwater again. She reaches out and grabs Susan’s leg. She wraps her hand
around Susan’s leg and pulls on it.
Susan feels Sasha’s hand wrap around her thigh and pull her underwater. She notices Sasha’s red hair floating before her. She grabs her wife, pulls her towards her, and kisses her.
The two women surface, embraced in each other’s arms. They press their wet bodies close to each other and let their hands roam. Sasha feels Susan wrap her legs around her waist. Sasha walks towards the steps, supporting Susan.
The two of them make out on the deck by the pool. Susan pins Sasha down and sits on her face while she leans forward toward Sasha’s groin area. She sweeps aside her wet hair as she feels Sasha’s tongue start licking her on her vaginal opening.
The two of them please each other for a few hours. They switch positions they have tried over the years and know each other loves. The two of them lay next to each other on the deck. Susan rested on Sasha's body and her head underneath Sasha’s chin.
Both women love feeling each other’s heartbeat. Sasha was likely caressing Susan’s lightly tanned back. She loved having her wife resting on top of her,
“We should do this more often.” Sasha holds Susan against her.
“I wish we could, but you know how it gets round here.” Susan would love to do what they did daily, but she knew it was impossible, especially when all the kids were home.
It’s only been a few months since Bunny moved in with Thumper. The two came over on the weekend to have dinner with them. Rose is touring with her band in Europe right now, and Gracie is touring with another band as their guitarist.
The band Gracie was currently in, which was playing in Oregon, would be heading to Washington State to play at a few places. Susan knew Gracie was honored to be asked to play with the band. Susan knew Gracie had been practicing a lot and taking lessons from Sasha and Jack of Hearts.
She and Sasha financed the tour since the band was new and had little money. They both knew how it was to travel and live on the money they made while touring. Luckily, her brother-in-law, Jeff, was acting as their manager. He had several friends who were booking agents, giving the band some nice gigs.
“I could stay like this for the rest of the day.” Susan wiggles against Sasha’s leg.
A smile appears on Sasha’s face as she moves her hand down to Susan’s butt and gently scape against her skin. She was careful not to draw any blood with her fingernails. She feels Susan squirm under her touch.
Susan feels Sasha’s fingernails dig into the soft skin on her buttocks. She gently bites Sasha on the shoulder. She knew two could play this game.
While they mark each other, Sasha’s cell phone starts playing the ringtone for Robyn’s number. Both women stop what they are doing when they hear the ringtone. Susan climbs up Sasha’s body and saddles Sasha’s head. She grabs Sasha’s cell phone and presses accept.
“Hey, sweetie. What’s the problem?” Susan wonders why Robyn is calling Sasha.
Robyn is surprised when her other mother, Susan, answers her cell phone—usually, her mother, Sasha, answers.
“Nothing serious, mom. Is momma Sasha available?”
“I’m sitting on her head right now. Do you want to speak to her?”
“Yes, ma’am.” A smirk appears on Robyn’s face.
Susan looks down at Sasha’s face. “Our daughter wants to talk to you.”
“It’s hard to talk to her with you straddling my face.” Sasha looks into Susan’s hazel eyes.
“Fine, I’ll get us something to drink while you talk to our daughter.” Susan hands Sasha her cell phone while standing up.
“Thank you, sweetie.” Sasha sits up after Susan stands up and takes her phone from her.
Robyn listened to her mothers and looked at the young woman she and her partner were called about. The poor woman had no idea who she was or how she had gotten where they found her. Also, no one had natural purple hair and bright violet eyes. She also had a massive chest.
“What’s up, Robyn?” Sasha wonders why her daughter called her.
“Hi mom, I have a woman here down at SWAT headquarters who can’t recall what happened to her. Also, I think something else is going on, but I need your input.” Robyn kept watching the woman.
“Is your commander alright with you calling me? Because, last time, he didn’t like it that you got me involved.” Sasha could remember the last time she helped Robyn out on a case. The police department didn’t like it.
“I don’t think he’ll mind this, Mom. The woman I’m calling you about can’t remember who she is or what happened to her. I’m hoping you could hypnotize her to see if that will help.
“I’ll try, sweetie. Give me about an hour to get a shower and get ready.” Sasha licked her lips and could still taste Susan's fluids coating them.
“Okay, mom. I’ll see you in an hour.” Robyn ends the call.
Sasha stands up off the deck and accepts the drink Susan was bringing her. She watches as Susan walks over to her.
“Here you go, sweetie. What did our daughter need?” Susan hands the other drink to Sasha.
“Thanks.” Sasha accepts the drink and takes a sip before replying.
Susan takes a sip from her drink and watches Sasha.
“Robyn called me to ask if I could hypnotize a person she and her partner found. According to Robyn, the woman has no memory of who she is or what happened to her.” Sasha takes another sip.
“I wonder what happened to the poor woman?” Susan wonders what happened to the woman.
“I don’t know, but hopefully, I can help her.” Sasha takes another sip from her drink.
Sasha walks into the house to get ready to leave.
SWAT Headquarters, Los Angeles, California:
It didn’t take Sasha long to drive from hers and Susan’s place in Beverly Hills. She was wearing a nice pair of dress slacks, a matching pair of four-inch heels, and a nice blouse. Her red hair was loose and held by a silver hairpin in the middle. She had a plain black purse with her, that had several of her concealed weapons in it.
Even when they ran her purse through the X-ray machine, the machine didn’t pick on any of her concealed weapons hidden within it. She knew the person scanning her bag was hoping to catch her. Even the concealed weapons on her person didn’t set off the metal detector when she walked through it.
Sasha locates her daughter as she waves to several officers she knows. Sometimes, she would come down to train some of the officers. They knew she was a highly trained agent for a law enforcement agency.
Robyn was watching the young woman she and her partner found wandering around. The clothes the woman had been wearing remained her of some of the costumes she wore when she was her mother’s assistant. She felt sorry for the woman because she couldn’t recall anything.
“How is she doing, sweetie.” Sasha walks up to Robyn.
She still couldn’t get over the fact that her little girl was no longer a little girl, but a full-fledged woman with a husband. Sasha and Susan had been surprised to learn that Andrew had been born with unique abilities like herself and Robyn.
“It’s like she is in some sort of a fog. She has no idea who she is or how she got where she was. Plus, those clothes she is wearing, remind me of the costumes you used to have me wear when I was your assistant.” Robyn knew her mother had all her assistants wear fancy outfits that helped distract the audience.
Sasha looks at the woman and has to agree that the outfit she was wearing would distract the audience. It was barely containing the woman’s big breasts. The woman was almost as big as her sister Felica in Texas.
“Do you think you can help her?” Robyn looks at her mother.
“Your grandmother is better at this, than me. But I think I can hypnotize her and see if we can recover any buried memories.” Sasha walked into
the room where the woman was sitting.
The woman looks at Sasha as she comes walking into the room, she has been sitting in for the past two hours. Her mind felt like it was in a fog and she couldn’t recall anything. Hell, she couldn’t recall who she was or how she ended up in the alleyway where the young red-haired woman found her.
“Hi, I’m Sasha Wolfhart. I believe you already met my daughter, Officer Wolfhart.”
The purple-haired woman nods her head yes to Sasha’s question. She remembered the red-haired police officer helping her.
Sasha could see that the woman was still confused. She sits down across from her.
“I’m going to hypnotize you to see if I can help you recall what happened to you. It’s painless and it should be able to reveal what memories you still have. Do I have your permission to try?” Sasha kept eye contact and couldn’t believe how violent the woman’s eyes were.
The woman nods her head. She was looking directly at Sasha’s eyes. She loved how green they looked.
“Alright, just keep eye contact with me. Let yourself relax. Take three deep breaths and let the tension you feel flow from your body.” Sasha watches as the woman’s eyelids start to droop.
Before long the woman is under. She was feeling so relaxed and the fog she had been feeling was slowly disappearing.
“Now, I want you to think back to yesterday and tell me what you did.” Sasha had a recorder out, recording their conversation.
“I remember going out with some friends. We arrived at an old-style theater. There is a guy up on stage performing magic tricks.”
“Can you tell me what the guy looked like?” Sasha knew all the wannabes and professional magicians in California.
“He is wearing an old-style magician suit. He has a black handlebar mustache. He asks for a volunteer from the audience as a cabinet is brought out by another guy.”
“What does the other man look like?”
“I can’t tell. The magician on stage is keeping my attention.”
“Can you describe the cabinet?” Sasha wondered who the person was.
“It’s tall and has weird writing all over it. It looked like something from the Victorian age.”
“What happens next?” Sasha listens intently to the woman.
“I’m selected to be the magician’s volunteer. I am escorted up on stage by my friends. The magician has me step into the cabinet, as he shuts the door behind me. I feel cold as the darkness surrounds me. I can’t hear anything the magician is saying outside. There is a tingling sensation all over my body.”
“What does the tingling sensation feel like? Is it like when you touch a live wire or when your body wakes up?” Sasha wonders what the cabinet did.
“It feels like when you are caressed by a lover.” The woman feels the sensation as she speaks.
“Okay, what happened after that?” Sasha keeps her voice soft and low.
“I don’t know. Everything is becoming blurry.” The woman can’t remember anything.
Sasha could tell the woman was about to hyperventilate. Before she brings the woman out of the trance “Okay, breathe slowly and calm down. Go back to when you arrived with your friends. What did they call you?”
The woman thinks about the question a name pops into her head.
“Ricky Jones. I worked at a sports supply store.” Tears start streaming down from Ricky’s eyes.
Sasha could see how upset Ricky was becoming. She slowly brings Ricky out of the trance he was in. She holds his hand and lets him cry. He has gone from being a man to being a beautiful, big-breasted woman with purple hair and violet eyes.
Ricky holds onto the red-haired woman’s hand. He felt violated and angry that his friends had betrayed him. He holds onto Sasha’s hand as he cries.
Rick lets Officer Wolfhart led her to a special worker from the city. The woman that Robyn took Rick too, was part of a new department. The department was setup to help people who have been exposed to the Blue Lace Drug and its derivative a new street drug called Venus.
Sasha watches as her daughter walks away with Rick. She now needed to find out who the magician was that changed Rick Jones and what that cabinet was. She waves goodbye to the people she knew and leave SWAT headquarters.
The first place Sasha heads to, is a booking agent she knew. Her family has been using this booking agent ever since her mother was in the business. It takes Sasha about twenty minutes to drive to the persons office. As she pulls into the parking lot, she remembers the last time she came here in person. It was when Bunni wanted to become a stage magician like her.
Just as Sasha gets out of her car. There is an explosion and a person comes flying out of the third story office window and lands on the car next to hers. She turns to look at the person and saw it was the booking agent she came to see. She pulls her cellphone out and dial 911.
When the police and fire department arrive. She gives her account of what happened. It turned out that the person she was coming to see, was the booking agent she knew. There was also his partner who wasn’t at the office.
The fire chief knew who Sasha was and ask her politely not to get in the way. Sasha just smiles and gets back in her car and leaves. Luckily, she had driven her jeep, instead of her corvette.
By the time she arrives back to her and Susan’s place. Her wife had dinner already prepared for them.
“What did Robyn want?” Susan looks at Sasha.
“She and her partner, found a person who had been changed by magic” Sasha pours herself a glass of wine.
Susan gives Sasha a puzzled look. She never thought magic was real.
“Come again?” Susan pours herself a glass of wine.
“Robyn and her partner, found someone that was changed by magic. I know it’s a little bit weird, but magic is real. It’s just not commonly known or used.” Sasha takes a sip of her wine.
“Let me get this right. Magic is real and there are people who actually perform it?” Susan knew Sasha believed in a lot of things, but never that magic was real.
“Yep, but its normally kept quiet. The reason for that is, we don’t what happened during the Salem Witch trails and the Spanish Inquisition to happen again. What people don’t know is, that the Vatican has a secret department within it that goes after people who perform true magic.”
“That’s terrible.” Susan wasn’t religious, but felt that people should be able to believe in whatever they wanted.
“So, what did you learn from the person?”
“Not much, just a vague description of how it was done. When I went to speak with Steve Langford to see if maybe he might know of someone performing under the radar. Someone blew him out of his office window.” Sasha takes another sip from her wine glass.
“Man, that’s terrible. I liked Steve.” Susan remembered meeting him when her and Sasha started dating.
“I know. Now, I have another mystery on my hands. Who would want to murder, Steve?” Sasha has a feeling that this case was getting more and more stranger.
Sasha sits down with her wife and eat dinner. After dinner, she helps Susan put away what leftovers they had.
“I’m going to go and do some research, sweetie.”
“That’s fine. Gracie is supposed to call me in a little while. I’ll give her your love.” Susan hugs her wife.
“Thanks.” Sasha walks into her home office and private library.
She and Susan both had their own home offices. It was a place for them to retreat to for privacy and conduct business. She walks over to her bookshelf and remove several books from the third shelf. She takes a key from its hidden spot and insert it into a concealed hole. She twists it once to the right and slightly pull it out and turn it the left.
There’s a clicking noise as the concealed panel in the wall opens. She reaches inside and pull a handle down and the wall behind the bookshelf opens. A light flicker on as it lights up the hidden area. Sasha moves a few old looking books around, until she locates the huge leather-bound book she was looking for.
She pulls the book out and closes everything back up. She puts the books she moved back into the order she removed them. She walks back over to her desk and set the book on her desk. She grabs a pair of latex gloves from a box in the right-hand side desk drawer and put them on.
“Now, let’s see if that cabinet is in this book.” Sasha starts flipping through the book.
Star Light Agency, Los Angeles, California:
A lone figure dressed all in black moves around looking at the ruined office. They had a penlight in their hand as they followed the blast pattern where the explosion had occurred. The person was being very careful because the damage was very extensive.
Most of the items had been collected already by the fire marshal. Still, there was a lot of debris left over to shift threw and collect. The person digs out several pieces from the wall. The mysterious person stands at the ignition point and judges where the explosion occurred. The person that had been killed had their back to the window.
The ruined desk was where the person had been facing. Which meant they must have been using a computer or something. The person shifts through the debris and finds the ruined keyboard and mouse. They bag the items and leave the office the same way they got in.
The figure exits the building and moves down several dark alleys. They mount a black motorcycle and drive away from the agency. Once they were a good distance away. They make several other turns and end up at a closed auto repair place.
The person enters the building through a hidden door and parks their motorcycle. They remove the helmet they had been wearing and leave it on the motorcycle. They connect a cable to the motorcycle, before leaving the hidden room.
Rose heads towards her lab and starts examining the pieces she recovered from the ruined office. She tests them for explosive residue to determine what type of explosive was used. This was the second occurrence of someone killing a talent agent.
Wolfhart Mansion, Beverly Hills, California:
Sasha slaps the alarm as it goes off. She had stayed up late last night going over every known cabinet that had been recorded in the book. The bad thing about it was translating the damn writing. The book wasn’t written in just one language, but in several different languages that described the object in the book. The scholar who had written that book had written it in the same source material they copied it from.
She looked over where Susan was sleeping and knew her wife had a bunch of things to do today. She moves closer to her wife and gives her a good morning kiss. She was so lucky when she met Susan and couldn’t believe that they would be spending their life together and having children.
Susan felt Sasha’s lips press against her and wrapped her arms around Sasha’s neck. She returns the kiss and opens her tired eyes. She felt Sasha’s nipples pressing against her breasts even through the material of their nightgowns.
When the two of them stop kissing, Susan looks into Sasha’s beautiful eyes. A smile appears on her face “You’re in a good mood this morning.”
“I know. I just couldn’t resist kissing you.” Sasha looks into Susan’s eyes.
“You know, I don’t have to be anywhere for the next couple of hours. We could just enjoy each other for a while.” Susan kisses Sasha back.
The two women enjoy each other’s bodies for the next two hours. Afterward, they take a shower together and grab something to eat afterward. Sasha watches as Susan leaves to go and take care of a few things.
Sasha grabs her car keys for her jeep and leaves an hour later. She drives towards her mother’s house since her mother is more knowledgeable about real magic than she is. She believed in it, but her mother had more experience using it.
The drive to her mother’s place was slow, thanks to traffic, sometimes she wished her car could fly. It might be something she talks to her aunt about. She knew several companies were still working on flying cars. Right now, they were too expensive and the range wasn’t far enough. Plus, the fuel was expensive.
After almost an hour, Sasha pulls into her mother’s driveway. She notices that her father’s truck is there. She gets out of her car and heads towards the house. She knocks, before entering, but no one answers. She takes her key and opens the front door. As she looks for her mother, she spots everyone in the backyard.
Sasha exits the house and spots her mother, her father, and several of her nieces and nephews out around the pool.
“Well, it looks like you guys are having fun.” Sasha walked over to where her mother and father were.
Janet lowers her sunglasses when she hears Sasha’s voice. A smile appears on her face “Hey sweetie.”
Leland looks at his daughter “Come over here and give your dad a hug.”
Sasha walks over and hugs her father. For a man in his sixties, he still had an impressive build. She knew her father could run circles around a lot of younger men.
Leland hugs his youngest daughter and wonders why she has come over. Not that she needed a reason to visit him or her mother. His children were always welcome at their house.
“Hi, mom.” Sasha stands next to her father.
“So, how are Susan and the kids?” Leland wanted to know what his other grandchildren were up to.
“Susan’s doing fine. She’s keeping busy with the studio. As for the kids, they are all doing their thing this summer. Gracie was asked to play with a rather new group. They’re doing the same places we did when Wildfire first started.” Sasha was proud of Gracie.
“Well, I know she’ll do good. So, what brings by here today?” Leland looks at his daughter.
“I need some advice from you and mom.” Sasha wishes her father could help her, but this was more up to her mother’s expertise.
“What can I do for you, sweetie?” Janet looked at Sasha as she stood next to her husband.
“It’s about a cabinet that turns men into women?”
Janet thinks for a minute, she doesn’t recall anything about a cabinet like that. A frown appears on Janet’s face “Do you know what it looks like?”
“A golden color old Victorian style with weird writing on it.”
“That’s not much to go on. What does it do?” Janet was curious.
“It turns men, into women.”
“Why can’t people design something that turns some women into men?” Leland was wondering why people were developing things to turn males into females.
“Beats me, dad. I guess women are more appealing to people.” Sasha knew men went crazy for pretty women.
“I can’t say I know of anything. Didn’t that book I give you help you?” Janet had given Sasha one of her old books when Sasha moved out.
“It didn’t have anything listed in it, mom.” Sasha went through them thoroughly.
“If you want to sweetie, you can look in my library. There are at least three more books I own that might be able to help you.” Janet kept the other books at her house for a reason.
“Thanks, mom.”
“You welcome sweetie.” Janet smiles at her daughter.
“Well, since you’re going to be here for lunch. Why don’t I make you your favorite burger.”
“Thanks, Daddy.” Sasha places a kiss on her father’s cheek.
Budget Auto Repair, Gardena, California:
Rose looks at the time and notices that she has been up all night. She has to start prepping the shop for opening. She makes sure everything is shut down, before leaving her forensics lab. It was a good thing she used to be a forensics researcher before she was changed.
Rose turns on the air compressor and makes some fresh coffee for her employees. She goes about unlocking the garage doors and assigning the repairs to the right mechanic. By the time her employees start showing up for work. She had the place ready.
Rose pours herself a large cup of coffee and walks into her office to start answering some emails and paying some bills. She’ll check the results of the test she started last night. She had a feeling she knew who was behind killing the talent agent.
Janet and Leland’s Place:
Sasha covers up a yawn as she looks through the second book her mother kept in her secret library. She knew the books in this room couldn’t be removed unless her mother did it. Her mother made the room that way, because of a famous thief who broke into her place. The guy didn’t like, that her mother was able to counter his every move.
So he decided to get back at her by breaking into her place and steal some of her valuable art and such. When he found her secret library and looked around. He discovered that she had some extremely valuable books and manuscripts. Some were written by famous artists, while others were extremely old and were considered extremely important.
Sasha was halfway through the second book when she came across a weird-looking cabinet. She noticed that it didn’t look like the description she had been given, but it did change people. She could only read a little bit of the description of the cabinet. The language it was written in was something she wasn’t familiar with.
She knew her mother had several books in her collection that allowed you to translate one language into another language. It was slow work, but she could translate the language. It was just going to take time.
Later in the evening, Janet comes walking into the library. She wanted to check on Sasha and see if she found what she was looking for. She spots her daughter at the long table with several books open on the table. Sasha was sliding back and forth between the books in the old-style wooden desk chair.
“You look like, you’re having fun.” A smile forms on Janet’s face.
Sasha turns around when she hears her mother’s voice. She brushes aside a strand of her red hair out of her eyes.
“What time is it, mom?” Sasha knew electronics didn’t work down in the old-style library.
“Almost seven. I thought I would check on you. I know how easy it is to lose time down here.” Janet has spent days down in her library.
“Wow! I should call Susan.” Sasha figures she should check on her wife.
“Have you made any headway with finding your mysterious cabinet?” Janet looks down at the light blue legal pad Sasha likes using.
She preferred the yellow colored ones, but she knew Sasha liked the light blue ones and the light green ones. Janet knew Sasha liked pretty colors and such.
“I think I found the right one, but I’m not sure. I’m going to need to find the magician that is using it. Also, translating the writing from one language to another language is taking up a lot of my time.” Sasha hated how slow she was progressing.
Janet just smirks. She knew it took time to get everything translated right. There were so many different interpretations of a word in different languages.
Sasha noticed her mother’s smirk. “Mom, it’s not funny.”
“Now you know why I don’t do magic anymore.”
“I thought you gave it up, because of what that amulet did you.” Sasha points to a display case with a golden amulet with the Eye of Thoft on it.
“I did. Every time I used magic from that amulet, it consumed a bit of my Chi. Magic and Chi don’t mix and when magic steals some of your chi, it makes you vulnerable and slows your recovery down.” Janet walked over to the necklace and could feel the power it held.
She has been tempted several times to use it but knew the cost was too high. When she was younger, it didn’t matter to her. It helped her career and let her help people. However, she soon learned the cost of using it and what it was doing to her body.
Sasha could feel the power coming from the amulet. However, she knew the amulet wouldn’t be as powerful as when her mother used it. Her special abilities interfered with the magic the amulet granted its wearer.
“Come on sweetie. Let’s get you some dinner.” Janet starts walking towards the elevator.
“Okay.” Sasha follows her mother.
Rose dozed off several times during the day. She managed to get what she had to do, done and called it an early day. Her assistant manager Francis could handle everything.
Just before she laid down, she checked the results from the test she performed earlier in the day. It confirmed what she thought the explosives were. Someone had used a custom binary explosive that when you sent an electrical charge through it, exploded. She knew of only three
companies that sold the chemicals required to make those explosives.
Rose covered up a yawn, as she stripped out of her clothes and took a quick shower. Staying awake while the water cascaded over her body, was taking everything she had left in the tank. Which wasn’t much.
By the time Rose lay down in bed. She couldn’t keep her eyes open any longer. She falls into a deep sleep.
Sasha’s and Susan’s Mansion:
Susan heard from her mother-in-law that Sasha had spent the entire day down in the library doing research. Susan knew what library Janet was speaking of. She never knew Janet had used real magic, while she had been going to school with Sasha.
She knew her mother-in-law was a very unique woman and could do things most people couldn’t She had always been impressed that besides being a stage musician and a formidable hand-to-hand expert. Janet was also a certified doctor and raised twelve children as well.
Susan knew when she married Sasha that they would never be able to have children of their own, but the ones they adopted and raised. They meant more to her than if she had, had them herself. She was very proud of what they had accomplished and the women they had become.
She noticed that Sasha had texted her and informed her that she was bringing dinner home from Janet’s place. A smile appears on Susan’s face because she knows Sasha’s father did most of the cooking in the house. She liked his food and was surprised that he never bothered to open his restaurant.
Sure, he was a lethal killing machine and commanded several black Op’s teams. But he also had the skills of a master chef and could give some of the popular chefs like Bobby Flay and several others a run for their money. His wife’s cooking was alright, but not like his.
“Honey, I’m home.” Sasha walks into the mansion carrying three large bags.
Susan meets Sasha in the kitchen. She spots the bags in Sasha’s hands and helps her with them.
“Did you find what you were looking for?” As Susan starts unloading the bags.
“Yes and no.” Sasha still wasn’t sure if the cabinet she found was the right one.
Susan looked at all the food Sasha’s father sent back with her. It looked like he had made Thai food for dinner. She opens one of the containers and inhales the aroma of the food.
“Oh, man. I could have an orgasm from smelling your father’s cooking.” Susan looks towards Sasha when she makes that statement.
“I know what you mean. I can never master cooking food as good as my father.” Sasha has tried several times to cook as well as her father. Her food never came out as good as his.
“Where did your father learn how to cook as well as he does?” Susan looks at her wife.
“His family moved around a lot. His father was a diplomat and spent a lot of time overseas, so he learned from the people who cooked it, day in and day out.” Sasha knew her father’s side of the family moved around a lot.
“So, did you find what you were looking for?” Susan fixes herself a plate.
The containers her in-laws sent the food over in, kept the food warm and she knew Sasha must have used her abilities as well to keep the food warm.
“Yes and no. I think I found the right cabinet that is changing people. What I don’t understand, is the motive behind the stage magician doing this?” Sasha was puzzled by the reason why.
“Maybe, he enjoys hurting the person's manhood. Think about it, if you took a macho man and suddenly took his manhood away. What would he feel like?” Susan knew several boys from their childhood she would have done that too.
“Maybe, but this doesn’t seem like a revenge type of thing. It seems more like the person who is doing, doesn’t know how to change a person back.” Sasha had a feeling the person turning men into women, didn’t know what he was doing or didn’t care.
“Do you have any idea who this person could be?” Susan knew Sasha was well connected in the magic scene here in California.
“No, it has to be someone from out of town doing this. I’m going to start looking into who it could be more tomorrow.” As Sasha covers up a yawn.
“Well, if I can help, let me know.” Susan kisses Sasha on the cheek.
“Thanks, sweetie.” Sasha finishes making her plate.
The two of them take their plates into the living room and watch a movie, while they eat their dinner. Both women were enjoying the food.
Across Town, In LA.:
A private magic show is going on at a warehouse. The people in attendance watched as an older man from the audience was escorted up to the makeshift stage. The middle-aged man on the stage instructs the volunteer from the audience to step inside a golden cabinet with strange writing on it.
The person performing the trick, instructs the people in the audience in saying the magic words. The cabinet glows brightly and the person inside the cabinet feels a tingling sensation. The next thing they feel is the muscles and bones under their skin moving. A strange warm feeling sweeps over them as their chest enlarges as two heavy globes of flesh grow from their chest.
They let out a scream, but no one hears them as their body reforms. Their thoughts start changing as their hair changes and new thoughts enter their mind. Afterward, the door is opened and a beautiful brunette woman with medium-sized breasts and a sexy body is escorted out.
She smiles at the audience showing off her perfectly formed lips. The woman informs the audience that the show is in order.
Hours later:
Robyn and her partner received a call about a woman being raped by two guys in a nearby alley. When they arrive, they spot the woman being held down inside a van. Robyn tosses four electrically charged ball bearings at the men. The men shake from the electrical charge as it courses throughout their bodies.
“Call a bus.” Robyn runs towards the van, while her partner calls for an ambulance.
Rose’s Place:
Rose woke up early the next morning. She still had a few hours before she had to get ready for work. She does her morning business heads into her kitchen and brews some coffee. While she is waiting for the coffee to brew, she turns the television set on and listens to the local broadcast.
While Rose is waiting for the coffee and listening to the news in the background. She grabs her tablet and brings up the map she made of the appearances of the women. She didn’t know much about magic or why someone would do things like this.
Rose puts the tablet down and looks through the mail sitting on an old cake platter. She spots an invite to a banquet the Knight Group is holding. She opened it and noticed it was a special VIP invite. She gets the feeling her family wants her to attend.
She was surprised that they stood by her, after being changed. It seemed that she hadn’t been the only member of her family that had been changed. Her cousin Tommy Lee had been changed into a woman. For him, it was an improvement.
She sets the invite aside and thinks about attending the banquet. She fixes a cup of coffee and scrambles up some eggs. She adds some peppers and onions to it. When everything is done, she enjoys her breakfast.
Since she still had a few hours before she needed to get ready for work. She sits down at her computer and goes over the results again. The companies that made the chemicals to make the components of the explosives needed to check their inventory.
Rose uses her fake DEA account to generate a search warrant. Before she inherited her uncle’s auto garage. She used to work for a secret department within the Department of Defense. The department was shut down due to budget cuts, but all of her credentials and access were still active.
Her change occurred while on assignment. Not only had she been changed, but the perp she was after had been changed as well. The other agent she had been chasing was surprised when the package they were carrying exploded. The other agent had been changed, just like she had.
After that incident, the agency she had been recruited for, shut down. However, her access to government databases had never been canceled. So, she could still use it.
She logs off and heads towards her bedroom to get dressed for work. She had some ideas about where the prick-turning men into women might perform next. She’ll take off later from work and check out the place.
Sasha’s And Susan’s Place:
Susan and Sasha were asleep in bed. Susan was holding Sasha’s body against her own. All their children were gone and they had the house to themselves. The dog they had gotten, Brutus was sound asleep on his doggy bed on Susan’s side of the bed.
They decided to get a dog, after the attack on their home. A friend of theirs recommended the dog because no one wanted the poor thing. He had been a stray and was approaching how long the pound would keep him. After they adopted Brutus, they took him to a trainer who specialized in training K9s for law enforcement or support animals.
Susan holds Sasha close to her body. She loved feeling Sasha’s warm body against hers. They had gone to bed naked since the kids were gone.
Susan just lays there holding her wife. Sasha had informed her last night, that she might have a lead on where the magician she was looking for, might perform next. After a while, Susan manages to get out of bed, without waking Sasha. She steps into the bathroom and does her morning business.
After Susan is done, she figures Sasha might like some breakfast. Susan slips on a pair of shorts and one of Sasha’s oversized t-shirts. She slips her slippers on and walks downstairs towards the kitchen.
Susan walks into the kitchen and notices she left the mail out on the counter, which for her was unusual. She normally took it to her office. One of the envelopes caught her attention. She picks it up and notices it is an invite. She opened it and inside was a VIP invite from the Knight Group. They were having a banquet and they were inviting her and a plus one.
A smile appears on Susan’s face. She knew Sasha hated going to high society functions. But sometimes it was a necessary evil if they wanted to get the filthy rich involved in important matters. She’ll speak with Sasha about the invite after breakfast.
Knight Group Banquet:
Susan and Sasha pull up in one of Sasha’s old-style Corvettes and turn it over to the valet. Sasha gets out of the car and hands the key to the valet.
“Please be careful with it.” Sasha didn’t want anything to happen to her old Corvette.
“Yes ma’am.” The young valet accepts the keys from Sasha.
“You know, we could have arrived in the BMW, instead.” As Susan and Sasha walk up the steps together.
“I know, but I wanted to drive my Corvette.” Sasha walks side by side with her wife.
“Ladies, your invite please?” A huge black guy dressed in a security suit was standing at the door.
A smirk appears on Sasha’s face as to what she could do to this person. He might intimidate most people, but he didn’t initiate her at all.
“Here you go, sir.” Susan shows her VIP invitee.
Simon accepts the invitation from the woman. He knew who she was and who her plus one was as well. He looks at the invite and hands it back to her.
“Thank you, ma’am.” Simon smiles at them as he watches as they walk inside the building.
Rose pulls up in her new Mustang and turns the keys over to the valet. It took her a while to get ready since she normally didn’t dress up. She spent her lunchtime, buying a high-end dress that she knew she was going to only wear once. She couldn’t believe she spent three thousand dollars on a nice pair of heels. She wonders why women's clothes cost so much.
She spots the security person at the entrance. She pulls her invite out and prepares to hand it to the security person.
“Here you go, Mr. Virtuo.” Rose shows her invite to the security person.
He notices that the young woman whom he hasn’t seen before knows his name. He looks at the invite and notices it was a VIP invite as well. That has been two so far.
“Thank you.” As he hands the invite back to the young woman.
He opens the door for Rose.
Rose smiles at him and enters the building. She hasn’t been to any of these events since her transformation into a woman. As Rose enters the building, she spots several people she knew. Some of them had tried to hit on her when she uses to be a guy, while the others were assholes towards her.
She knew they were gold diggers and always looking to elevate their status. Some of them even fool around with the other's boyfriend. She grabs a flute of champagne as a waitress walks by her.
While Rose is mingling with a few people she knows. Out of the corner of her eye, she spots a woman who looks like Susan Blackstone from Wildfire. She knew Susan Blackstone came from a well-off family. She also knew Susan was married to fellow bandmate and famous stage magician Sasha Wolfhart.
An idea pops into Rose’s head. Maybe she could talk to Mrs. Wolfhart about some of the independent stage magicians. Maybe she knew of someone that might be the person she was looking for. Her smile gets bigger while she thinks about the idea.
“Susan, I’m so glad you could make it. I see you brought along your wife.” Emily looks at Sasha with a snide look on her face.
“It’s good to see you as well, Emily.” Sasha smiles sweetly at Emily. The last time they cross each other's path. Things didn’t turn out so well.
A smirk appears on Susan’s face because she knows what her wife did to Emily. She had to admit that Emily deserved what she got.
“I see you are looking better, after your accident, Emily.”
Emily looked a little startled after Susan mentioned the situation between her and Sasha. She still wanted revenge for what Sasha did to her. She swallows her pride “Yes. I have someone I would like you to meet.”
The black hair gentleman who had been standing near them turns around. He had a charming face with bright hazel eyes. He stood a few inches taller than Emily in her three-inch heels. He had lightly tanned skin and looked to be of European descent.
Sasha looked at the guy and saw how he looked at her wife and Emily. She noticed the predatory look in his eyes. He was the kind of guy who enjoyed seducing women and taking everything they had, including their virginity.
“It's so nice to meet you ladies.” Ciarán smiles sweetly at the ladies standing before him. He wouldn’t mind taking each of them and turning them into his sex slave.
He felt Emily grip his hand and could feel her emotions. There was lust, possessiveness, and something else when she looked at the auburn red-haired woman.
“Ciarán, this is Susan Blackstone and her companion Sasha Wolfhart. Ladies, this is Ciarán Kilvert he’s going to provide the entertainment for tonight.” Emily thought she would up one over on Sasha.
“Oh?” Sasha felt something she didn’t like coming from Mr. Kilvert.
“Yes, he is going to perform for us.” A smile appears on Emily.
Ciarán kept his gaze on Susan. He was looking directly into her eyes. He was going to try and convince her to leave Sasha.
Sasha noticed what Ciarán was trying to do to Susan. A smirk appears on her face, as she slips a metal joy buzzer onto her hand. She reaches out and lightly touches Ciarán’s hand. A strong electrical charge erupts from the joy buzzer, causing Ciarán to jump.
“OWE!” Ciarán almost had Susan hypnotized.
A smirk appears on Sasha’s face. She looks at Ciarán. “What happened? Did something shock you?”
Susan shakes her head. It felt woozy and she was a little shaken. She grips Sasha’s hand tightly. She knew something wasn’t right and was glad her wife was standing next to her.
Rose had been nearby and noticed everything. Something about the guy was setting off warning bells in her head. She has been secretly taking pictures of everyone at the banquet. Most of the people she knew, but there were a few new people she didn’t know.
Ciarán gives Sasha a dirty look. He knew her reputation and didn’t want to push her buttons. This wasn’t the place or time for it. Her time would come, and when it did. He would have his sweet revenge on her later.
Rose mingles with the people at the banquet. She keeps Sasha in sight, so she can talk to her. As for Ciarán, something about him was rubbing her the wrong way. It was a good thing she came prepared. She walks close to Ciarán and gently drops a small GPS tracker into his side pocket. She also scans his cell phone with hers.
While she is close to Ciarán, she listens in on what he is saying to some guy. They were talking about investments and the newest CEO of some company. Nothing that matters to her. She wasn’t into acquiring or having lots of money like her family.
“Sweetie, come with me.” Sasha pulls Susan towards the women’s bathroom.
Susan follows her wife to the bathroom. She wonders why Sasha is pulling her to the bathroom.
“Why are we in here?” Susan looks at Sasha with a puzzled look on her face.
“Because that Ciarán fellow tried hypnotizing you. If I hadn’t stopped him, he would have managed to do it.” Sasha was protective of her wife.
“How come he didn’t try to do you?” Susan looks into Sasha’s eyes.
“I can’t be hypnotized. But I can stop him from hypnotizing you.” Sasha reaches into a hidden pocket on her dress and pulls out a contact container.
“Since when do you wear contacts?” Susan didn’t think her wife wore them.
“When I want to spy on people without them knowing about it. However, these aren’t those types of contacts. These will protect you from being hypnotized. Since you need to keep eye contact.” Sasha hands them to her wife.
Susan puts the contacts into her eyes and blinks a few times. She wasn’t used to wearing them.
“Do you normally carry around things like this?”
“You’ve seen all the stuff I carry on me, including the lock picks hidden in my bra.” A playful smile appears on Sasha’s face.
“Sometimes, I wonder why I still love you.” Susan kisses Sasha.
Sasha returns the kiss and afterward fixes her lipstick. She and Susan walk out of the bathroom and mingle with the crowd. Sasha was keeping an eye out for Ciarán.
Rose had lost sight of Sasha Wolfhart but figured she was still enjoying the banquet. Rose socializes with a few people she knows, but they don’t know she has been changed from a male to a female yet. What happened to her was being kept quiet.
After a while, Rose spots Sasha talking to someone. She walks over to where Sasha is standing. She didn’t want to interrupt the person talking to Sasha, so she waited. After the person walks off, Rose looks at Sasha “Sasha, I know you’re into the magical scene. What advice do you normally give new magicians and is there a place they should start?”
“Well, normally when a person is thinking about starting. I normally recommend they become an apprentice to an established magician like myself or some of the others out there. If they are set on doing things themselves. Most magicians starting, who want to be independent, might do street performances or if they are good. They could go onto the circuit like most magicians.”
“Are there agents that handle newbies in your craft?” Rose was recording their conversation.
“There are three agents that I know of. But one of them just recently died.”
“I heard about that. Do they know how they died?” Rose knew because she went and investigated the site.
“Some sort of an explosion from what I heard.”
“If you don’t mind me asking? Is there a circuit that magicians perform on?” Rose wonders if she should start looking there.
“You know, there is actually. Also, starting some magicians do underground shows. Especially, if the magician is trying to improve their reputation or build a following.” That statement gets Sasha thinking. Maybe she has been going at this investigation the wrong way.
Sasha looks at Rose “Are you thinking about becoming a magician?”
“No, my cousin is. She wants to change jobs. She’s realizing that her current job isn’t going anywhere.”
“Well, it is a male-dominated occupation. She’ll have to develop an act that will get her noticed.”
“She’s pretty creative. I think she might find a way.” A sly smile appears on Rose’s face.
“Sasha, here you are.” Susan walks towards her wife.
Sasha smiles at her wife. “Sweetie I would like to introduce you too?” As Sasha looks at the woman, she has been talking too.
“Rose.” As Rose extends her hand out to shake Susan’s.
“Susan Blackstone.” As Susan shakes Rose’s hand.
“I know who you are, Mrs. Blackstone. You’re the lead singer for Wild Fire. I think your voice range is remarkable.” Rose loved some of their music.
“Thanks. So, has my wife been helpful?”
“Yes, she has. She has been very helpful. Now, if you’ll excuse me, please. I need to visit the powder room.” Rose smiles at Susan and Sasha just before she walks off.
Susan and Sasha watches as Rose walks away from them.
“I hope it wasn’t something I said.” Susan takes a sip from her drink.
“No, I don’t think it was, sweetie.”
Rose covers up a yawn as she drives back home. The banquet was boring and the entertainment Ciarán did later was mildly entertaining. The other high rollers that were there might have been impressed with his act, but she noticed Sasha wasn’t amused or entertained. At some point during his act, she thought she saw Sasha cover up a yawn.
A smile forms on Rose’s face as she enjoys the drive back to her place. Tonight, she wasn’t going to bother with going on patrol. Most of the gangs, weapon traffickers, and drug dealers knew to stay out of her area.
Now she just had to do something about the prostitution going on in her area. She knew some women liked doing it because it was easy work and they didn’t mind having sex with men. However, others were either forced into it or groomed to do it. That was where she needed to concentrate her efforts. To get the ones who are forced or groomed into being prostitutes out of it.
By the time Rose arrives back at her place. She is ready to go to bed. She carefully takes off the expensive dress she bought. She knew now that she was at the banquet, her parents would want her to attend more high-class events. She sets the dress aside to be taken to be cleaned. As for the expensive shoes she bought to go with the dress. She wipes them down and puts them back into their box.
She couldn’t believe she bought a pair of expensive shoes she wouldn’t wear that often. Afterward, Rose cleans the makeup off her face and puts her expensive jewelry back in the safe. Her mother insisted on buying her nice jewelry.
She removes the bra she wore and tosses the pair of panties she was wearing into the dirty clothes hamper. It was a good thing she wasn’t on her period, or she would have to soak them. Ever since she was turned into a girl, she had a heavy flow and had to change her tampon and pad or the blood would soak her panties.
Instead of taking a shower, before going to bed. Rose puts on a silky lace nightgown and lays down in bed. She grabs her iPad and looks through a few things that pique her interest.
Sasha and Susan:
Susan looked towards Sasha as she drove them home. She knew her wife was bored with the entertainment done by Mr. Ciarán. She knew Sasha was expecting more from him, not something their children could do.
“The banquet was kind of disappointing, wasn’t it?” Susan knew Sasha hated things like that.
“Yeah, especially the entertainment. Our children could have done better. What posses Emily to have hired him, I have no idea.”
“Maybe he hypnotized her like he was trying to do me and a few others there?” Susan noticed Mr. Ciarán talking to a few people a little too long.
“It’s possible. Also, we know how ambitious Emily is.” Sasha knew Emily had always tried to be the center of attention. She has been like that since high school.
By the time Susan and Sasha arrived home, it was late. Sasha parks her Corvette in the garage and walks into the house. She wanted to get out of the dress she was wearing and take her heels off.
When her mother started teaching her to wear heels, she didn’t care or them. However, as she has gotten older. She still hates wearing them. She knew Bunni loved wearing heels and so did Grace. Robyn and Rose were neutral towards wearing them.
Sasha helps undress Susan, and in return, Susan helps Sasha out of the dress she wore. Sasha rubs under her boobs where her bra had risen and rubbed her little raw.
“It looks like you might need a new bra, sweetie.” Susan was putting her nightgown on when she spotted Sasha rubbing under her breasts.
“Maybe. I might just need to readjust this.” Sasha tosses her bra into their dirty clothes hamper.
Susan and Sasha lay down in bed and cuddled together. Tonight, Sasha was holding Susan close to her body.
“I hope the girls are enjoying themselves.”
“Me too.” Susan covers up a yawn and closes her eyes.
Rose looks at the contacts she downloaded from Ciarán’s cell phone. She knew some of the people on his contact list. She knew the people he had on his contact list were well-connected. Rose wonders if the people Ciarán turned to were connected to anyone on Ciarán’s list.
She did a Google search of the people she knew and the locations of some of the people who had been changed. She also checked to see who some of the enemies of the people who knew them were. She leans back in her chair and watches as a list of people appears. She cross-references those names with possible missing people.
After about twenty minutes, several matches appear. Rose looks at the information and wonders why he is doing what he is doing. There has to be some connection. She turns on the GPS tracker she slipped into his pocket and gets its location.
Rose transfers the information to her tracker and changes into her bodysuit. She based it on a cosplay outfit she once wore. It is skintight, made of flexible Kevlar, and capable of stopping all bullets, including rifle rounds.
She slips her helmet on and heads towards her motorcycle. She custom-built it, and it couldn’t be traced back to her. When Rose mounts her motorcycle, it automatically starts up. She emerges from the hidden garage and drives to the location where the GPS tracker is located.
When she arrives at the location, she hides her motorcycle and heads towards the GPS. Rose notices that the GPS is inside an old-style brownstone building that looks like it has been renovated. The GPS tracker is located on the fourth floor.
Rose shoots her grappling gun towards the roof and secures it. She lets the grappling gun do the work of lifting her up to the top floor. She scans the window for an alarm sensor and spots one. She disables it and slowly opens the window.
The enhanced vision systems inside her helmet detect a motion alarm. She removes a small device from her belt and disables the motion detector. She enters the bedroom and locates the GPS tracker she slipped into the jacket.
The jacket was hanging in Ciarán’s closet. She looked around the bedroom and noticed Ciarán was a neat person. Everything had a place; if she moved anything, she had better put it back the way he had it. She looked around in the bedroom but didn’t find anything of value.
She checks the next floor and notices where he keeps his collection of stage artifacts. She finds all sorts of various gimmicks and stage magician items that used to belong to famous magicians. There were also books that looked to have belonged to some of the famous magicians. She spots a few items that belonged to Wildfire in the collection. Some of the items looked to have been damaged. Rose takes a few pictures to send to Sasha.
While looking through the book collection, Rose discovers a concealed entrance. She figures out how to open it. She watches as the secret door opens, revealing a strange room with various artifacts. She immediately recognizes some of them, but there are others she has no idea where they came from or the symbols/writing on them.
Rose takes pictures of everything. Maybe she could show Sasha the pictures to see if she recognizes them. She closes the door again and searches each floor until she reaches the garage. When she walks into the garage, she discovers all sorts of tools and sees dust lying around. She takes a test tube from her belt and scoops some of the dust into it.
Afterward, she looks around some more and finds various pieces of broken wood with writing on them. The wood was so rotten that she couldn’t recognize the symbols carved into it. She carefully puts the pieces into an evidence bag and seals it. Later, she examines the bag back in her lab.
Rose keeps looking around the garage and finds a few sheets of paper with people's pictures and names. The helmet enhances the ambient light so she can see the pages. Some of the names grab her right away. All the people that she researched earlier were on this list.
“Gotcha!” Rose folds the paper and tucks it inside her outfit.
When she turns around to leave, she is suckered punch by a figure dressed in black like herself. Her helmet absorbed the punch as she tried to regain her footing. The optics of her helmet flickered, but they were working okay. She watches as the person draws a sword from behind his back and takes a swing at her with it.
Rose parries the sword with her forearm. The suit she was wearing was immune to bladed weapons. She extends two electro pongs from her wrist and fires them towards the person.
The unknown person knocks them aside and comes at her again. He swings his sword again at her, and flames surround the blade. He goes in for another strike, but this time for her midsection.
Rose backflips out of the way of the attack. She spins around on her right foot, then brings her left foot up and kicks the other person. She feels her foot blocked and pushed away.
“I really need to bring some weapons with me next time.” Rose tosses down some black eggs.
Smoke starts filling the area as she dodges past the figure and out the door behind them. She runs as fast as she can towards the nearest window and throws an explosive disk towards it. The disk explodes as she leaps out the window.
The helmet she is wearing shows the person chasing her. She tosses down some clear balls behind her. She keeps running as she watches the person slip on the substance she tossed down.
“Try getting up from that, creep!”
Rose runs back to where her motorcycle is hidden and jumps on it. It automatically starts up as she speeds away from the area. Just to be on the safe side, she is being followed. She takes the long way back to her place.
Rose wakes up the next morning feeling tired. Last night she had gathered some evidence that she needs to show Sasha and hopefully, she’ll be able to read the faded writing on the pieces of wood she bagged and brought back with her. However, right now she needs to open her garage and take care of business.
Rose takes a shower and afterwards gets ready for the day. It was a good thing she didn’t need to go far. Once she is dressed for work, Rose heads to the garage and start prepping for the day. She knew her crew would be coming in soon. She goes through the repair tickets and assign them to the right people. She looks outside and noticed people were already lining up for state inspections.
“Who’s in the mood for fresh doughnuts?” Craig comes walking into the garage with two boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
“What type did you get, Craig?” Rose looks at Craig as he carries two boxes into the shop.
“Glazed and chocolate covered doughnuts. Fresh off the assembly line.” Craig saw the sign in the window lite up announcing freshly made doughnuts.
“Cool.” Rose grabs a stack of napkins and walk over to Craig.
She takes one of each out of the boxes. She loved freshly made doughnuts, especially, doughnuts from Krispy Kreme itself.
“How much did they cost you?”
“Don’t worry about paying me back, boss. This one is on me. You always treat us to lunch and such.” Craig liked working for Rose. She always tried to do nice things for her people.
“Speaking of lunch, do you think the guys will like pizza again or something different?” Rose liked treating her hard-working people to a good lunch every Friday.
“The guys like the pizzas you have been getting from Pizza Haven.” Craig loved the large pepperoni on the pizzas.
“Alright, I’ll put in an order for Friday.” Rose knew she’ll be spending fifty dollars or more on pizzas.
Once the guys start coming in, Rose gets to work double checking the books from yesterday.
Ciarán’s Townhouse:
Ciarán comes walking into his townhouse. He heads to the kitchen first and grabs a beer from the refrigerator. Just as he walks back into the living room, he spots his twin dressed all in black.
“Why are you dressed in black?” Ciarán takes a swig from the beer bottle.
“We had a visitor while you were out.” Louis looks at his twin and wonder why the person he encountered was snooping around their home.
“Is anything missing?” Ciarán was concerned that the person might have found the cabinet.
“Nothing is missing, but the woman did find a few things in your workshop. What I don’t know, but she did seem interested in it.” Louis had
watched quietly as the mysterious woman looked around. He could tell it was a woman by the silhouette of the body.
“What were they wearing?” Ciarán was wondering if it was Wildfire herself.
“A black outfit like mine with a helmet. She had a slim backpack attached to her back. Also, she was able to block my sword strike with her arm.”
“Anything else unique about this mysterious woman?”
“Yeah, she blew the window out with some sort of flat disk device and caused me to slip like I was running on black ice.” Louise was surprised by whatever chemical the woman threw down. He nearly twisted his ankle slipping on whatever the substance was.
“That’s not Wildfire’s style. She doesn’t wear a helmet, but she does uses special gimmicks to cause distractions and slowing people down.”
“Then, if it wasn’t her. Who was it then? One of the other masked vigilantes that operate here in California?” Louise knew there were at least six costume vigilantes that operated in California. He’s been keeping track of their movement from several sources.
“I don’t know who they are, but we can always set a trap for them to find out.” An idea was starting to from in Ciarán’s mind on how he would do it.
“Well, its late and I’m tired. Let’s get some sleep and start planning this out tomorrow.” Ciarán finishes his beer and heads towards his bedroom.
Louise follows behind him and heads towards his own room. He hopes whatever trick his brother has planned will work.
Classic Café Corner, Down Town L.A.:
Rose takes a sip of her coffee as she waits for Sasha Wolfhart to arrive. She was lucky that Mrs. Wolfhart agreed to come and talk with her. She understood why Mrs. Wolfhart suggested this particular coffee shop.
She had googled the place and saw that it had an outstanding review. She looks around and tries to locate Sasha. After a few minutes, she spotted an old silver color Chevy Stingray Corvette pull into a parking space. A smile appears on her face when she spots Sasha get out of the Corvette.
She watches as Sasha scans the outside sitting area. She raises her coffee cup to let Sasha know she spotted her. She watches as Sasha starts walking towards the entrance of the coffee shop.
Sasha had received an email from a woman claiming to be investigating Ciarán Kilvert and his recent activities. She had included some pictures she sent in the email and was asking for her help. Normally, Sasha didn’t get involved in other people’s investigations, but the pictures the woman had sent had piqued her curiosity.
She had arranged to meet this person at one of her favorite coffee shops. When she got out of her car, she automatically started scanning the crowd sitting outside of the café and spotted a woman with light brown hair sitting at a table. She had raised her coffee cup to let her know she spotted her.
A sly smile appears on Sasha’s face as she enters the coffee shop. Sasah stops to order a cup of coffee before going outside to sit with the woman she came to meet. After getting her cup of coffee, Sasha heads outside and over to a young light brown hair woman.
Rose looked up at Sasha as she approached her table. A smile appears on her face, as her idol stops near her table.
“Do you mind if I join you?” Sasha looks at the woman.
She looked to be in her early twenties, had shoulder-length light brown hair, and was wearing a light color sleeveless blouse. Nothing seemed suspicious or out of place about this woman.
Rose looked up at Sasha when she spoke “Please.”
“Thank you.” Sasha sits down across from Rose.
“So, what is your interest in Ciarán Kilvert, Rose?” Sasha felt weird calling this woman by her oldest daughter’s name.
“I think he is up to no good, Mrs. Wolfhart.”
“Please, call me Sasha. As for no good, you’ll need more than that to convince me to help you.” Sasha wanted to know what was motivating this woman.
Rose takes a deep breath and lets it out before speaking. She gathers her thoughts “because I came across one of his victims. I have a feeling that he is purposely choosing his victims, either to profit off them being missing or to help someone to profit off their disappearance.”
“Can you prove any of this?” Sasha knew she’d need proof to move against Mr. Kilvert.
“Nothing concrete, but this is what I do have.” Rose reaches into her purse and pulls out her Apple iPad.
She logs onto it and brings up the phone numbers she stole from Mr. Kilvert’s phone. She hands the tablet to Sasha. “Here’s what I have so far.”
Sasha accepts it and looks through the information. She had to agree that things seem to point towards Mr. Kilvert having some sort of a
connection to the victims. They were the same people that Susan associated with.
Sasha hands the tablet back to Rose. She looks at Rose’s face “That information is a little weak. Do you have anything else to go on?”
“How about this?” Rose opens the file she had encrypted.
Rose hands her tablet back to Sasha “Take a look at these photos and tell me what you think.”
Sasha accepts the tablet again and starts looking through the photo. Several of them caught her attention right away. She looks up at Rose “Where did you get these photos?”
“I sort of broke into Mr. Kilvert’s place. Don’t worry, I was covered from head to toe, so he has no idea who I was.” Rose saw the concerned look on Sasha’s face.
“Are you sure he didn’t?”
“I am, but there was someone else there. I didn’t get a good look at him, because he was covered up from head to toe like me. Here’s what my helmet camera caught of him.” Rose shows Sasha the video her camera built into her helmet caught.
Sasha watched the fight and could tell the person Rose was fighting had some skill, but his fighting style was sloppy. He relied on the weapon he was using too much.
“Did you see him when you entered the place?” Sasha had paused the video to look directly at Rose.
“No, he must either live there or was there for something.” Rose had gone over all the footage her helmet cam recorded.
“I agree with you. The thing is, how did he know you were there? Did you forget to disarm any of the security systems before you entered?” Sasha watches Rose’s facial expression.
“I didn’t forget to disarm any of the security systems. Maybe he had one that was hidden that I miss or wasn’t part of the main system.” Rose knew she had a few like that.
“Maybe. As for the photos you took. Some of this I recognize and I know what it does. Mr. Kilvert must have repaired or rebuilt what the item does.” Sasha knew anyone with expert carpentry skills could fix most magical items made of wood.
“So, do you think that is how he is turning men into bimbos?”
“If I had to guess, I would have to say yes. He found an ancient magical artifact and rebuilt it.”
“So, will you help me get to the bottom of this mess? Because to be honest, this is way out of my league, and having an expert helping me would be a big help.” Rose knew this was out of her league.
Sasha looks into Rose’s eyes and tries to see if she should help her. She normally doesn’t like working with someone she doesn’t know that well. Her apprentice was out of town doing a show.
“Here’s my address. I want you to come by tomorrow and I want to see what you know.” Sasha inputs her address into the tablet and hands it back to Rose.
“Thank you.” As Rose looks at the address.
“You might not say that after tomorrow.” An evil smile appears on Sasha’s face.
“You might be right.” Rose figures it might be some sort of test.
The two women finish their coffee and walk out together. Sasha heads for her Corvette, while Rose walks to the jeep she came in. Rose wonders what Sasha has planned for tomorrow as she drives back to her garage.
Sasha and Susan’s Mansion, Beverly Hills, California:
Rose couldn’t believe she was giving up a day's worth of work to train with Sasha Wolfhart. She had arrived at six in the morning as Sasha instructed her to. She had called her assistant store manager to handle the store today. She would stop by later after she was done to check the deposit for tomorrow.
Sasha had given her a set of titanium/steel sai to train with. They were perfectly balanced and crafted, and they also had a hidden surprise built into them. She could shock any metal or person with them.
Rose parries Sasha’s incoming attack with her set of sais. She was a quick learner, and Sasha had shown her how to properly use the sais to parry, deflect, and trap an opponent's attacks with them. She could also quickly strike an opponent with them and stab them with the middle pong.
She parries Sasha’s sword attack with the sais and traps the sword's blade with them. Sasha taught her to trap a bladed weapon and use the sais to break the blade. She releases the blade and watches as Sasha makes away.
“Very good. That sais should protect you from that attacker who used the flaming sword against you.” Sasha puts the sword back in the rack and faces Rose.
“Now, I want you to use that sais to stop my attacks.”
“Are you sure you want to do that, Sasha?” An evil grin appears on Rose’s face.
“Oh, I’m sure.” Sasha attacks Rose quickly with her hands. She pulled her punches and strikes to avoid injuring Rose too much.
Rose couldn’t believe how fast Sasha was or the different ways she used her body to attack. Sure, she studied martial arts when she was younger, but the way Sasha attacked. It was like Sasha was a professional MMX fighter.
She feels Sasha slip by her defensives and strike her upper left arm. The next thing she feels is her left arm going numb. She couldn’t move it at all.
“What the hell did you do to my arm?”
Sasha stops attacking and smiles at Rose. “I used an atemi move. There are pressure points on everyone’s body, and if you know where they are. You can disable your opponent by striking them in a certain way.”
“How long does the effect last?” Rose still couldn’t feel her arm or make it move.
“Oh, about twenty minutes until I undo what I did to you.” Sasha strikes the area again and undoes what she did to Rose.
“Can you teach me how to do that?” Rose figures it would come in handy in a hand-to-hand fight.
“Sure, but it takes time and practice to learn it.” Sasha taught her two apprentices how to use it, just like her mother taught her.
“Can you kill a person with that atemi ability?” Rose wonders if what she saw in the movies was true.
“Yes, you can. But I won’t teach you how to do that. Maybe I might teach it once you are older and have proven yourself. For now, let’s continue with what we started.” Sasha smiles at Rose as she plans out her next moves.
When they stopped for lunch, Rose was worn out from the training. She managed to strike Sasha a few times, but overall, Sasha got the better of her. They put away their weapons and dried off from sweating so much. They headed upstairs to the kitchen for Sasha to fix their lunch.
“Sasha, where did you learn how to fight like you do? Because your fighting style looks like a collection of different martial arts.” Rose sits down on a stool at the island counter.
“I learned from my mother and father. My mother learned everything she knew from a tiny village in Japan, then went to Tibet to further her training. My father was in the Special Forces and is a former Delta Force trainer. My father studied for a bit of a while in Tibet. That’s where he met my mother and her twin sister.” Sasha pulls out some chicken and puts it on the grill to cook while adding spices.
“So, where did your mother learn her stage magician abilities?” Rose knew Mrs. Wolfhart was a famous stage magician.
“When she was raised in Japan, my mother was the class clown while studying for her doctor’s degree. Her instructors felt she didn’t take her studies seriously. Boy! Were they wrong? She was top of the class and graduated before the rest of her peers. She paid her way through medical school performing on stage and when she did her residency.” Sasha figures sharing a little about her mother’s background was okay.
“You said your mother and father met in Tibet while studying martial arts. Is that where they decided to hook up?” Rose was curious.
“Nope, it wasn’t for years afterward before they became serious. As it was, my mother was the teacher my father trained under while in Tibet. My mother taught at the temple, and he and several of his men went to study. The monks there were impressed with how good she was. She was only the third female to ever teach at the temple or be allowed to live there. Not that they could stop my mother. There are very few places she can’t get into or escape from.”
“Wow, so your parents passed what they knew onto you?” Rose was impressed.
“You could say that. My mother custom-designed my training because I followed in her footsteps. Unlike my other brothers and sisters.”
“How many brothers and sisters do you have?”
“Fourteen. Me and my youngest brother are the only adopted children my parents have.” Sasha flips the chicken so they can grill on the other side.
“Fourteen children? Where did your mother find the time to have that many?” Rose was amazed at how big Sasha’s family was.
“My mother and aunt only gave birth to twelve children. Twins and triplets run in our family. My mother and aunt don’t know why it happens to only them, but it does. How many sisters and brothers do you have?” Sasha looks at Rose for an answer.
“I have two older brothers. My parents only wanted three children, and when my mother gave birth to all males, she was disappointed. I knew I was always different from my other siblings.”
“So, I take it that you grew up as a transgender child?” Sasha looks towards Rose for an answer.
“Some strange dust turned me into what you see now. I used to be a DEA agent and was chasing after a perp when the bag I was carrying exploded, turning me, my coworker, and the perp into women. I was lucky my family stood by me afterward.” Rose remembered the day it happened.
“What do your parents and siblings do?” Sasha already knew because she had her cousin Violet do a full background check on Rose at the mountain complex.
“They are self-made billionaires. My father is one of the wealthiest oil barons, and my mother came from old-world money. My oldest brother is the current CEO of Clayton Oil Company, and my next oldest brother owns his own company. He makes investments and makes a lot of money for his clients. I’m the oddball because I own an automotive garage my uncle used to own. I try to distance myself from the upper elite. I prefer a simpler life.”
“And I bet you also enjoy fighting criminals?” Sasha figures Rose was just like her daughters.
“Hey, a girl has to have a hobby.” A smile appears on Rose’s face.
“I know what you mean.” Sasha finishes cooking the chicken, cuts it up, and adds it to some lettuce, tomatoes, and feta cheese.
“Here, you go.” As Sasha sets the plate in front of Rose.
“Thanks.” Rose could smell the spices Sasha added to the chicken.
The two of them sit and enjoy lunch.
On route to Ciarán’s Warehouse:
“This is a nice ride.” Rose couldn’t believe that Sasha picked her up in a blackout Corvette.
When she got inside the car, she couldn’t believe how hi-tech it looked. It was like someone took the inside of KITT from Night Rider and placed it inside a Corvette. The Corvette itself didn’t look like a normal vette. It was a little longer then a normal vette with a thicker front and rear bumper.
“Thanks. It used to be my mother’s car before she passed the baton to me.” Sasha was following the directions towards Ciarán’s warehouse location displayed on the built in GPS unit.
“Did your mother pay someone to design & build this car for her?” Rose looked at Sasha while she drove.
“My aunt built it for her. My aunt is my mother’s twin sister and she specializes in medical research, aircraft, and weapons.” Sasha knew her aunt was extremely smart and specialized in other fields of research as well.
“Medical research and weapons research? Isn’t that the opposite of each other?” Rose was still looking at Sasha when she asked that.
“My aunt inherited the weapon company from her husband. Besides, with her high intelligence, it fits her. She has her fingers in a bunch of things.” Sasha knew her aunt was very diverse.
“Your family sounds interesting.” Rose sat back and relaxed as Sasha drove.
After thirty minutes, Sasha stops near a used car lot to hide her car. Rose looks towards Sasha “Are you sure your car is going to be fine here?”
“Yeah, I’ve used this used car lot before.” Sasha grabs her utility belt and hands her spare one to Rose.
“Here, if you run into trouble, like before. There are a few nasty surprises in the pouches that you can use to distract and escape.”
“Thanks.” Rose switches out her normal utility belt with the one Sasha is giving her.
“Let’s be careful and see if we can find where Ciarán is hiding the cabinet.” Sasha starts hiding in the shadows.
“I agree.” Rose closes the visor on her helmet.
Rose leads Sasha through another entrance she had scouted out. She watches Sasha disarm the security system in record time. She follows behind Sasha as they enter Ciarán’s place. Since Rose has already scouted the place out before, she takes the lead.
Sasha stops all of a sudden as a crossbow bolt flies by her head. She palms a throwing knife and throws it back in the direction the bolt came from. She hears the knife miss its target as it embeds itself in the wall.
Rose saw the crossbow bolt fly by Sasha. She figures Sasha could have caught it if she wanted to. She moves quietly throughout the place. The optic systems inside her helmet pick up a thermal difference against one wall.
“Sasha, over here.” Rose points towards the wall.
Sasha retrieves her knife and tucks it away. She had a feeling that they were being watched.
“Be careful and alert, Rose. I have a sneaking suspicion we are being watched.”
“I think you’re right.” Rose moves silently as they head down a secret corridor.
The corridor led to a workroom with a bunch of woodworking machines and such. Near the machines looked to be two objects covered by a sheet.
“I’m going to go over and check those things out.”
“Alright, be careful.” Rose moves over to check the objects out.
Something didn’t seem right to Sasha. As she slowly looked around, she saw something move and there was a whooshing sound.
“DUCK!” Sasha drops one of her specialized golf balls into her hands and ignites it, just as she throws it to intercept the object going toward Rose.
Rose drops to the floor, as an explosion goes off above her head. She feels little bits of debris raining down on her suit. She looks towards the cabinets and notices two figures dressed in full black body suits. Even their heads and eyes were covered. Rose figures the goggles either were enhanced optics or polarized lenses.
Ciarán smiles beneath his mask. He was hoping Sasha Wolfhart would make an appearance. Now he would show her who the most powerful magician was. He mumbles a few words and a glowing blueish ball with crackling energy appears. He tosses the ball toward Sasha, while his brother deals with whoever the other person is.
The tiny hairs on Sasha’s arms start standing up, as a blueish energy ball appears between Ciarán’s hands. She knew this was real magic, from the times she trained with her mother. She palms one of the four tennis balls she normally carries with her. She tries not to use them because they carry a lot of powerful explosives in them.
When Ciarán releases the ball of energy towards Sasha. He watches as she tosses something towards it. He braces for whatever she is doing.
Sasha tosses the tennis ball towards the blueish energy and steps back a few steps. She gets ready to shield her eyes as the tennis ball intercepts the energy ball. There is a powerful explosion from the two different items meeting each other. The resulting explosion nearly knocks down both combatants.
Rose felt the explosion as she blocked an attack from the person attacking her. The sais Sasha gave her were coming in handy. The person had drawn a sword and she had blocked the attack with the sais.
The person attacking her pulled back and separated his sword, so he had one in each hand. Both swords develop flames along the blades. He springs forward and starts attacking Rose.
Roses use what she was taught with her sais to block and parry the attacks. When she traps the blades, she uses the secret weapons the sais had built into them. She presses the hidden switch and sends 120,000 volts through the sais and into the swords. Just before her attacker feels the jolt from the attack. He manages to nick her outfit, leaving behind a burning cut on her shoulder.
Rose was thankful, that her outfit was fireproof. A smile appears on her face when she watches her mysterious attacker start dancing from the 120,000 volts travel throughout his body. She watches as her attacker jumps backward and tries to shack off the effects of the shock.
Ciarán grabs two rods from the workbench and twists their crystal handles. Blueish energy emerges and covers the rod in the middle. He parries Sasha’s attack when she moves in to strike with her fist.
Sasha felt a numbing sensation when the energy from the blade nicked her body. Normally, she wouldn’t feel anything because of how her suits were constructed, but it was like the energy of the blade passed through the material of the suit, without damaging it.
She couldn’t use some of her nasty tricks because Ciarán was covered from head to toe. She starts using her hand-to-hand training while avoiding the blades. She noticed that Ciarán was coming at her faster and faster, but she had a few tricks up her sleeve.
Rose was being pushed to her limit as her attacker increased his attacks against her. There were several slashes on her outfit where his blades managed to cut into the material. She was being pushed towards a corner that had a few wielding tanks.
Rose parries an attack and the swords strike the wielding tanks.
“OH SHIT!” The swords strike the cylinders and caused a huge explosion.
The explosion brings the ceiling down and sends the cabinets flying towards Sasha. One slams into her and pins her up against the wall. The second one opens up and Ciarán falls into it. It lands on its face, sealing Ciarán inside the cabinet.
Rose gets blown under a workbench, but her shoulder is dislocated. She screams from pain as the workbench above her protects her from debris from the ceiling collapsing in the room. The person she was fighting got caught in the explosion and was killed by the cylinder exploding.
Dust filled the air, along with smoke and fumes from burning paint and materials. The cabinet pinning Sasha against the wall, had her arms pinned. She could feel something hard that penetrated her suit and went through her body.
She wiggles her right arm and manages to get it free. The smoke was making it hard to breathe, but Sasha uses her ability to extinguish the flames.
“Sasha, are you alright?” Rose was in pain from her shoulder being dislocated.
“I’m fine, I think. I just can’t get free.” She was hurting from whatever impaled her. The cabinet was pressing against whatever the object was that penetrated her suit.
She manages to get her other arm free and pushes the cabinet off her. When Sasha looked at what went through her suit and body, it was one of the strange weapons Ciarán had grabbed. It went through her body and into the wall behind her. She knew it was going to hurt when she went to break it.
Sasha screams out in pain, as she drops to the floor from breaking the damn thing. She felt whatever energy had been stored in it, travel into her body. Her skin felt like it was on fire. She was feeling weak as well. She presses her belt buckle to summon help.
Rose manages to remove debris that had her pinned underneath the workbench. She moves over to where Sasha is on the ground on all fours. The optics in her helmet showed Sasha’s body temperature was extremely high.
She searched Sash's body and saw a weird object that had a crystal on the bottom of a copper handle. It had a hand guard and then a strange-looking copper rod in the middle with pieces of crystals embedded in the copper shaft.
“Sasha, you’re running a high fever.” Rose wonders what could be causing Sasha’s body to be burning up.
“I’ll be fine. How are you?” Sasha sat up using her training to control the pain she was feeling.
“I think my left shoulder is dislocated.” Rose had her visor up so she could talk with Sasha.
“Here, let me fix it.” Sasha manages to focus through the pain. She checked Rose’s left shoulder and had to agree that it was dislocated.
Rose winces when she feels Sasha probing her left shoulder. She clinches her teeth as she tries to ignore the pain.
“This is going to hurt, Rose” Sasha prepares to set Rose’s shoulder.
“Do it.”
“Okay.” Sasha puts Rose’s shoulder back in place.
“GOD, THAT FUCKING HURT!” Rose felt her shoulder go back into place.
“Here, take this. It will kill the pain.” Sasha reaches into one of her pouches on the right-hand side of her belt.
Rose accepts the light pink pill from Sasha. She looks at it “What is it?”
“It’s a fast-acting pain killer. My mother makes them for us.” Sasha knew her mother made them.
“Is it safe for me to take?” Rose wonders if Sasha’s mother made them strictly for Sasha’s body chemistry.
“It’s safe for you.” Sasha knew what Rose was thinking about.
Rose pops the pill in her mouth and swallows. She hopes the pill works as fast as Sasha told her.
Thirty minutes go by, by the time Sasha starts receiving a message from their rescuers. While they were waiting, and with Sasha’s help. They managed to lift the cabinet that Ciarán fell into.
When Rose opened the door of the cabinet, there was a naked woman inside with oversized breasts. She stumbles out of the cabinet and looks at them.
“Where am I?” She had a confused look on her face.
“You’re in a ruined worked room. Do you remember who you are?” Rose looks into the sapphire color eyes of the woman.
The woman shakes her head back and forth. She had no idea who she was or why she was down here with the two other women.
“Oh, boy. I think Ciarán got a taste of his own medicine.”
“I think you are right.” Rose couldn’t believe the woman standing in front of her. She was the exotic dream image of every perverted man.
It takes the team sent to recover Sasha and Rose at least two hours to remove the debris above them. Sasha was holding out as long as she could. She wasn’t feeling that well when the rescue crew found them and lifted them out of the sub-basement.
Rose was worried about Sasha by the time the rescue crew dug them out. She kept track of Sasha’s temperature. Also, the pain she had been feeling from her injured shoulder had gone numb. The rescue team consisted of members from a crew of people dressed as playing card characters.
One of them had been Ace, Sasha’s daughter. There was also a medical team there to help them as well. The woman who used to be Ciarán was escorted away to be helped.
As for Ciarán's brother Louis, he didn't survive the explosion of the tanks or having the ceiling come down on him. His recovered body was a mangle mess of flesh with pieces of metal from the tank embedded throughout his body. If the metal hadn't killed him, pieces of the ceiling that fell on top of his would have.
Robyn walks over to Rose to see what happened. As she approached Rose, she saw the medical team from her grandmother taking care of her injured shoulder.
“Rose, can you tell me what happened down there with you and my mom?” Ace was concerned about her mother.
“Sure,” Rose informs Ace about what happened.
Several Days Later:
Rose was back at work and had made up an excuse for why she wasn’t using her left arm that much. Her people were a little concerned, but they knew she would recover. While Rose was sitting in her office, she received an email from Susan informing her that Sasha was fine.
As for Ciarán himself, he was a she now and was being examined by Blake Medical to see what exactly was done to her. As for Sasha, she was slowly recovering from what was done to her. The email didn’t go into details of what happened to Sasha.
As for Sasha, she was as weak as a kitten. The magical energies in the strange rod weapon had entered her body and messed with her natural abilities. The two energies in her body were fighting for control and she needed to find a balance. Her mother showed her how to ground the excess energies in her body.
Sasha injuries where going to sideline her for a while until she could balance the two energies in her body. Which meant Sasha was going to be spending a lot of time with her mother. As for Rose, Sasha's mother recommended additional training from the training center she sends her agents to.