Outplayed

Mimoko angrily smiled as she met up with Iori and Carol. "Just to be sure, we are all seeing the same thing, yes?"

"Uh, what do you mean?" Iori asked.

"The DESPER battle ended, yes? So why are we all still here!?"

Despite winning their games, the girls had still not returned to where they were before. To make things more complicated, a quick GPS search confirmed the girls truly were in London.

"So what's the biggie? We just hitch a plane home," Iori shrugged.

"Iori-chan, we've essentially entered the country illegally. We don't have our passports either," Mimoko angrily smiled.

"So? Isn't that what embassies are for? Plus it's not like we illegally entered, more like we were kidnapped and brought here."

"True, but there's a problem; the Fairy chess league."

Both Iori and Carol shot Mimoko confused stares, causing Mimoko to let out a sigh and show them the warning she received from the WWCF regarding Fairy chess.

As their name suggested, Fairy chess was a chess league that wished for there to be nothing but official chess games with fairy pieces like the princess, empress, and amazon. Some members even argued for getting rid of the king and making the game all about capturing pieces due to their belief that the king was nothing but dead weight. While the WWCF was willing to have variants that included fairy pieces like Capablanca chess be available at secret puzzle cafes, Fairy Chess wanted nothing short of their way. To make matters worse, they suddenly became much more emboldened in their actions and had declared war on the WWCF so to say by taking over the British government. As a result, it was not uncommon for WWCF members to be unlawfully detained and used as hostages against the WWCF.

"Oh, so we just gotta watch out for wackos. Though why are you worried? Considering how big you are, they'd get rekt by the old man if they tried to detain you," Iori shrugged.

"On the contrary, I'd make quite the hostage. If they catch wind that I'm here, and illegally nonetheless, they'd hastily lock me up along with you two as well."

A smirk began to form on Iori's face as she turned to Carol. A grin also formed on Carol's face as she nodded and held up her purse. Mimoko meanwhile began to feel uneasy as the two turned to face her with mischievous looks plastered on their faces.

"So if they couldn't recognize you, they wouldn't detain you right?" Iori grinned as she and Carol began escorting Mimoko towards Big Ben.

Once inside, Iori locked the door, and sat Mimoko down on a bench before whipping out her phone. A look of dread and disgust appeared on Mimoko's face as she realized what the two were planning. "No, I'm not shaving my head!"

"Relax, we not shaving your head, we shaving your head AND eyebrows," Carol smiled as she pulled some hair clippers out of her purse.

"That's even worse!"

"Come on, Mimo-chan. Shaving all your hair off is the most efficient way to make yourself unrecognizable," Iori giggled as she began setting up her phone on a tripod.

"You're recording!?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"Then wouldn't everyone know, hypothetically speaking of course since I'm NOT shaving my head or eyebrows?"

"We still haven't uploaded the video of us getting the ultimate mega bald makeover, so the world doesn't even know me n' Carol are baldies."

As much as she didn't want to admit it, Mimoko was a tad impressed that Iori had thought things through. Though she still was not going to snip even a single hair off her head.

"Then how about this. If I mate Carol with a castling checkmate, you go bald," Iori snickered.

Mimoko shot Iori an odd glare, but ultimately decided to bite. After all, a checkmate via castling was one of the rarest types of checkmates out there. "Sure, if you actually get a checkmate via castling, I'll shave my head."

"Eyebrows too?"

"Yes, you can make me as bald as you want. Now let's get this over with. The game will be bullet time since we really shouldn't be wasting time on this."

Iori grinned and immediately challenged Carol to a game via her WWCF card. Carol accepted the request, and a chessboard appeared. Carol then shot Iori a malicious smile and moved her pawn to e4 while Iori began chuckling and moved her pawn to e5. Then, Carol moved her king to e2 and it was at that moment that a look of shock and anger appeared on Mimoko's face as she realized what the two were doing.

"No, Iori-chan-"

"What? Bongcloud is viable," Iori snickered as she moved her bishop to d6.

"Yeah, I saw bongcloud checkmate video," Carol smiled as she moved her king to f3.

Iori then brought her queen out to g5 while Carol brought her bishop to c4. Mimoko however was only getting madder and madder as she foresaw their next two moves. "Knight h6 and... Bishop e6... Iori-chan, is this coordinated?" Mimoko angrily smiled as Iori captured the bishop at e6 with her f-pawn.

"What do you mean? Carol's just shit against me," Iori snickered as Carol moved her queen to e2. "Now just to make sure... Yep! Castle checkmate!" she shouted as she castled on the king's side, winning the game.

Mimoko shot the two a death glare as they gleefully turned to face her.

"Come on girl, you said if I get this mate, I can 'make you as bald as I want'. So smile and except your batsu game. I was recording the whole thing, so no backing out either," Iori snickered.

Seeing no way out, Mimoko leaned her head back and began smiling angrily as Iori and Carol got everything set up. Once that was done, the clippers went on and her hair began plummeting to the ground. Within seconds, her hair had been buzzed as short as possible. Her eyebrows were then buzzed off as well before Carol put the clippers away. However, she was far from done.

"Oh Iori-chan, my head and eyebrows are shaved, yes? So why are you smearing shaving cream on me?" Mimoko asked as Iori began lathering her head and eyebrows with shaving cream.

"Cuz you're far from done. Carol's got some wax and depilatory cream too, so we're gonna make use of it," Iori grinned as she began shaving.

A few minutes later, Mimoko's head was completely smooth, however, Iori and Carol didn't let up and lathered not just her head with shaving cream but also her face and legs.

"Y are mmph oing mmh [Why are you doing this]?" Mimoko growled.

"For the content, and cuz a queen like you deserves both premium care and batsu," Iori snickered as she began shaving Mimoko's legs. "Damn, your legs really are smooth, the razor's practically flying across them!"

Once the shaving was done, it was on to the waxing. Mimoko quickly found her head, face, and legs encased in green wax, though much to her dread, the streamers planned to take advantage of her immobilized and gagged state and began plucking out her eyelashes. Mimoko once again attempted to ask why, but due to her mouth being sealed with wax, was only able to muster some muffled grunts. Once her eyelashes were gone, her eyes were covered up with wax, and she was forced to sit and wait for a bit before all the wax was ripped off her in one go.

Next was the depilatory cream. Aside from the fact that it burned and destroyed any remaining hair follicles she had, it was just like the shaving cream. Finally, Mimoko's batsu concluded with her head, face, and legs being lathered with body oil.

"I'll admit, this does feel quite relaxing, but Iori-chan, you're getting hell for subjecting me to this," Mimoko angrily smiled.

Iori and Carol struggled to contain their laughter.

"What's so funny?"

"Just... Well, look," Iori giggled as Carol flashed a mirror.

Mimoko's eyes widened and began to tear up as she saw herself in the mirror. She was now completely devoid of hair and could pass as Carol and Iori's bald triplet. She attempted to scream, but Iori covered up her mouth.

"Sorry, but we'll have to ask you to replicate that scream once we get back to base. This place ain't exactly the best place to screaming in terror," Iori nervously laughed as she began doing the outro.

Once that was finished the girls began to head out.

"And we're just going to leave my hair scattered about?" Mimoko snarled as she blushed in embarrassment and rubbed her bald head.

"Yeah, we're bookin' it for the airport," Iori nodded.

"I swear, this better not be permanent."

"Why?"

"Um, BECAUSE I LOOK HIDEOUS THAT'S WHY!"

"Nah, just look at Carol n' me. We rock the bald freako look and you... Well..."

"I looked better with hair!"

"Eh, guess maybe we should've spared the eyelashes."

"JUST the eyelashes!?"

"Whatever, at least no one will recognize you."

As the girls exited however, they were quickly surrounded by a group of soldiers in pink uniforms led by a woman in a crimson uniform. A man in a navy blue suit, who appeared to be the true leader of the group, chuckled and approached the girls. "Well, well, well. Seems you got outplayed. Did you enjoy shaving off all your hair for nothing?"

Iori's entire demeanor changed as a scowl appeared on her face. "The fuck are you?"

Mimoko was taken aback by Iori's sudden mood shift, but even more shocked when the man introduced himself.

"I am the majority leader of the United States senate as well as Arizona's senior senator and soon to be the next president of the United States of America, Manuel Pewler."

Mimoko's heart began beating as she recognized the name. This man was the one her mother had warned her to avoid at all costs.

The full game:

White: Carol Cooke (400) Black: Iori Ishikiridokoro (1188)

1. e4 e5

2. Ke2 Bd6

3. Kf3 Qg5

4. Bc4 Nh6

5. Be6 fxe6

6. Qe2 O-O#