Johnny and the limit

Susan could tell right away that the Mary she found waiting in their mother's car for their morning ride to the technology institute wasn't the real Mary. It was amazing that neither parent ever noticed when one of the girls replaced themselves with a hologram. Being the second day in a row of weird behavior, Susan decided to locate Mary and figure out what was going on though not until mom had dropped Susan and the Mary hologram off and was safely out of the way. Though she needed to know what was going on Susan had no desire to rat on Mary… at least not yet.

Susan never had much concern for the safety or privacy of others, this being overtly apparent in the number of times the girls experimented on Johnny and even the occasions, rare as they may be, when Susan would secretly experiment on her sister. In fact, if Mary wasn't around to keep Susan on the up and up Johnny would likely be dead due to Susan's overzealous desire for results. With that in mind it was surprising Mary didn't think to check herself regularly; if she did she would have noticed the little tracking device Susan had hidden in Mary's crescent moon barrette while Mary had been showering the previous night. Susan knew Mary would be boiling mad if she discovered the little bug but she was unwilling to let Mary disappear twice in two days without a trace.

Susan was shocked when she activated the tracking receiver and plotted Mary's location.

"She's skipping school to go see a movie?" Susan ranted to herself, "And without me! I'll see what she's up to!"

With the help of a pair of ultra powered rocket skates (an outdated projected the girls had almost forgotten about in their school locker) Susan made it to the theater in only a few minutes. After positioning herself on a bench across the street from the theater Susan produced a pair of Z-Ray binoculars so as to spy on her sister through the theater walls.

"Are you serious? She ditched school for a monster movie?" Susan mumbled to herself as she sighted the werewolf on the screen, "and a B-rated one at that! This doesn't make any sense."

It took a moment of panning the theater to find Mary, eventually sighting the tip of her crescent moon over her seat.

"There you are!" Susan whispered to herself as she focused the sight to see through the chair, "Oh what the hell? She skipped out on school to see a monster movie… WITH JOHNNY? That makes even less sense!"

Within seconds of spotting the two Susan began to chuckle as she watched Mary's antics.

"What a baby! She's afraid of a low budget werewolf? Oh, I'm a super genius scientist but I scream and cower and grab onto my little brother for protection from a movie monster." Susan mumbled to herself, mocking her sister.

It took a few moments for Susan to realize things were stranger then she at first assumed. She scanned the rest of the theater slowly, noting only three other people at this early showing. By the time she returned her sighting to Mary and Johnny's seats she swiftly noticed Johnny's arm now wrapped around Mary while her head rested against his shoulder. Susan counted off the seconds to see how long it would take Mary to shove Johnny off of her but stopped counting after 30.

"That's just gross!" Susan grumbled to herself, "If those two are going to be weird like that I'm glad they didn't invite me."

Susan remained focused, watching her siblings from across the street as the film stretched on. The movie was lame and predictable (even if Susan couldn't hear any of the sound) but both Johnny and Mary seemed to enjoy it. Despite all the cuddling and hand holding Susan didn't process this shared movie as anything too important until the end of the film.

With the monster defeated, the werewolf hunter had successfully saved the lost camper. The last scene ended with the buff, dirt splattered werewolf hunter and the beautiful camper locking lips in a passionate kiss just before fading to black. Despite not being able to hear what was going on Susan inserted herself mentally into the movie with Gil as the valiant werewolf hunter.

As the credits began to roll Susan pulled herself out of her daydream with just enough time to spot Johnny and Mary pulling back from a long kiss.