Foreword: This is the result of lack of sleep, browsing 4chan, and 
watching the faux op for the "Troubled Windows" anime a couple of times.
If you're not familiar yet with the phenomenon of OS Girls, you're 
missing out... they're adorable. A wide range of artists have done their 
takes on human-type versions of many OSes, with Windows ME being a clear 
favorite... many seem to agree that, while it may be the lousiest OS, 
she makes for the cutest girl. (I prefer the 2K girl, myself.) A lot of 
art has been done of these girls... often cute, often sexy, and 
sometimes sad or touching.
So, here's my little stab at bringing them into fanfic. Forgive it 
somewhat if it's lackluster in quality... the spirit was willing, the 
body and brain were very tired.
To familiarize yourself more with the OS girls, I suggest checking out 
the archive of imagery done of them at 
http://nijiura-os.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ (Please note, page is in Japanese, 
and the images are not ALL guaranteed to be work safe.)

Parking and C:\Driving
By
Rann Aridorn


	Micro$oft-hausu was fairly quiet early in the morning. Outside, birds 
were chirping, and the cicadas were starting to trill with the promise 
of it being a calm, hot day.
	In one upstairs bedroom, a cute young girl with green hair lay in bed, 
snoring quietly. After several minutes, the snoring stopped, and her 
eyes peeked open slightly. Several minutes later, she sat up, very 
slowly, her hair falling down her back, swaying over the white triangle 
with an exclamation point inside it emblazoned on the back of her blue 
pajamas.
	Almost an hour later, the girl had done her hair up in a pair of 
braids, a blue dress with white and red ribbons at the chest and back of 
the waist, the ribbon on her front held in place with a clasp shaped 
like the same symbol that marked her pajamas, a rounded-off white 
triangle rimmed in blue, with a blue exclamation mark inside it. She 
wandered into the kitchen, calling a sleepy "Ohayooo~" to the two older 
girls sitting at the kitchen table.
	"Mmm, ohayo," commented an intelligent-looking young woman wearing oval 
wire-rim glasses, a blue outfit with blocks of orange and green on the 
front (the lower part fit rather like a one-piece swimsuit, with a long, 
flared part behind it like a dress or long coat), and a headband with 
what looked rather like a pair of blocky blue cat ears atop it holding 
her short green hair in place. She was sipping at a cup of coffee, and 
reading the Business section.
	"Me-tan is such a slow starter," the other young woman commented. She 
was dark-haired, the forelocks to either side of her head bound with a 
barrette shaped like an X and a P. She was wearing a white short-sleeved 
top with a broad blue stripe down the middle, which accented her large 
chest, and a blue pleated short-skirt. She, too, was drinking a cup of 
coffee, and reading the Entertainment section.
	"Don't be hard on Me-tan for starting slow," the headband-wearing girl 
replied mildly, without looking up from the paper. "She needs lots of 
rest, so her memory doesn't get flooded."
	"Mou!" the girl in braids protested, wheeling to face the breakfast 
table. "XP-neechan! 2K-neechan! Hidoi!"
	"Now, now, Me-tan," 2K-tan commented, turning her head to look at her 
sister and adjusting her glasses. "You know we love you, for all your 
faults."
	"For all your many, many, many faults," XP-tan added, sipping her coffee.
	"Oh. Okay," Me-tan replied, apparently seeming satisfied with that, and 
turning to open the fridge. "Searching... searching..."
	"Mmm, she'll be at that half the morning." XP-tan closed her section of 
the paper and folded it, laying it on the tabletop.
	"Well, what shall we do today?" Setting her own section of the paper 
down, 2K-tan held her coffee cup in both hands. "It looks like it will 
be warm."
	"Still, it should be a nice day in the park. Why don't we go for a 
walk? We'll take a picnic lunch."
	"Alright. I'll make the lunch. You boot up Me-tan."
	XP-tan nodded, rising from the table and walking over to the fridge. 
She looked down at her "little" sister for a moment, before giving her a 
light kick in the side of the foot.
	"Ow!" Me-tan straightened up, holding a bottle of milk. "Neechan! What 
was that for?!"
	"We're going to the park. Go get ready."
	"The park?! Wai! Wai!" Me-tan began jumping up and down, sloshing the 
milk about rather haphazardly. "Wai! Wa-!" She suddenly stopped, eyes 
taking on a vacant look and mouth slumping open, head tilting to the 
side as shadows covered her upper face and a small wisp of smoke rose 
from her head.
	"She crashed again," XP-tan said over her shoulder, with a sigh.
	"Well, go ahead and reboot her," 2K-tan said with the tone of long 
experience, in the midst of making lunch. "It'll take her awhile, anyway."
	With a shrug, XP-tan looked back at Me-tan, giving her another little 
kick. The slack-jawed expression and smoking stopped, Me-tan's head 
raising slightly. She said nothing, a rather sleepy look still on her face.

	Once Me-tan had come around, just in time for the lunch to be tucked 
away in a basket, the three of them headed for the front door. XP-tan, 
rather skilled at multitasking, was carrying the basket, making sure 
that none of them had forgotten anything, getting umbrellas in case it 
rained, and getting the house keys. 2K-tan, businesslike and 
professional, had called up a set of floating holographic screens and 
keyboards, and was checking their route for construction work, and what 
weather was expected that day. Me-tan was standing by the door, swaying 
back and forth lightly.
	"That's everything," XP-tan said after a few moments, glancing at 
2K-tan's screens for a moment. "Looks good. Let's go."
	"Ready, Me-tan?" 2K-tan asked with a smile, patting her sister on the head.
	"Mm-hmmm!" Me-tan said happily, grinning and bobbing her head, 
following the other two girls out the door.
	Out on the front walk, a pretty young girl in a kimono was sweeping the 
walk. The kimono was pink, with a sakura blossom pattern on it, the 
broad red sash around her middle bearing a gold clasp in front that 
formed a large nine and a smaller five, her long auburn hair bound at 
top and bottom by ribbons.
	"Ohayo, 95-neechan!" Me-tan called, waving excitedly.
	"Ohayo," 95-tan replied softly, smiling a little.
	"95-tan, we're going to the park." XP-tan shifted her load about a bit 
in her arms. "Do you want to come?"
	"Well. I do have to finish this," 95-tan said in her quiet, gentle 
voice, glancing down at the walk. "But if you'd like me to come along. 
Should I get 98-tan?"
	"We don't want too much of a crowd," 2K-tan interjected, adjusting her 
glasses again. "Let's just go as we are."
	"Alright." 95-tan nodded, and set her broom aside. Tucking her hands 
into the sleeves of her kimono, she fell into line, bringing up the 
little procession... XP, 2K, Me, 95.

	The procession of OS Girls wound their way through the park, having 
arrived with only two crashes by Me-tan along the way. They fell to 
companionably discussing the best place for the picnic, with 2K-tan 
insisting that a scientific examination of the park's entire layout 
would yield the best results.
	"XP-taaaaan!"
	XP-tan blinked, then smiled as she recognized the voice, turning 
towards the direction it had come from. "Buster!"
	A young boy with wild blonde hair, wearing a white t-shirt, red shorts, 
red sneakers, and a backwards-turned red cap raced up, clutching a blue 
carrying case under one arm. He looked up at XP-tan with a bright smile 
on his face. "XP-tan! Ohayo!"
	"Ohayo, Buster." XP-tan rested one hand atop Buster's head, shifting 
his cap around and rumpling his hair even further.
	"Trend-san," 2K-tan greeted, pushing her glasses up on her nose.
	"2K-tan," Buster replied, grinning at her as well.
	"Oooo, it's XP-neechan's booooyfrieeeend!" Me-tan cooed, bursting into 
giggles.
	Both Buster and XP-tan blushed brightly, immediately whipping around to 
face away from each other, XP-tan clutching her hands in front of her 
and looking down. "N-no! Don't misunderstand, Me-tan!"
	"H-hai," Buster murmured, rubbing the back of his head. "It's not like 
that."
	"Hm?" 95-tan tilted her head inquisitively.
	"Buster has been helping me keep healthy," XP-tan murmured, smiling a 
bit even though she was still blushing, tossing a little glance the 
younger boy's way. "He's been very good, so far."
	"Has he?" 2K-tan queried, grinning and resting one hand on her hip.
	"H-hai." XP-tan nodded, then made a bit of a face. "He's not... 
invasive... like Symantec-sensei."
	XP, 2K, and 95 all gave light shudders at the thought of the leering 
dark-skinned bald man, with his labcoat and thick glasses that didn't 
show his eyes.
	"Buster is a nice boy, let's leave it at that," 2K-tan said with a 
grin. "Hm. I think that tree will give us optimum shade..."
	"Oh my," 95-tan interjected as the little group made their way towards 
the large oak 2K-tan had pointed out. "But someone else is already there."
	"Oh no." 2K-tan sighed, closing her eyes and shaking her head. "It's 
those OTHER OS Girls."
	"Let's try to get along," XP-tan said in a whisper. "Look, they're 
coming over. Everyone just be nice."
	"I'm always nice!" Me-tan chirped at full volume, causing mildly 
exasperated (if loving) looks from her "elder" sisters.
	"Well, hello there!" Called the blonde one of the pair of girls that 
had approached the group. She was wearing a white, high-collared 
one-piece, with long white gloves and tall white boots, a glowing red 
apple tucked under one arm. "If it isn't the Micro$oft girls!"
	Her companion gave a low muttering of what sounded like gibberish. She 
was definitely a rather odd-looking girl, wearing a penguin-beaked 
helmet with silver horns and a yellow ridge along the middle over her 
long dark hair. She wore a blue shift with a  gold, downward-pointing 
trident on the front, a pair of yellow swim flippers on her feet, and in 
one hand she carried a spear with three ribbons tied to it.
	"X-tan, Linux-tan," XP-tan greeted politely, nodding to both.
	"Taking over the park now, are we?" X-tan said with false cheerfulness, 
trying to ignore the way that Me-tan was eyeing her apple.
	"For the last time, X-tan, we are not trying to 'take over' anything," 
XP-tan said with a sigh, resting her hand atop Buster's head as he 
scooted a little closer to her side.
	"You all think you're so superior," X-tan accused, finally frowning 
outright.
	"Dev null bash bash hex," muttered Linux-tan.
	"We're quite willing to admit you're better than us in some manners, 
X-tan," XP-tan said, a little bit of desperation in her voice as she 
tried to be a peacemaker. "You're such a good artist, your graphics look 
amazing."
	"I'm just as good as you at EVERYTHING!" X-tan declared.
	"Play any good games, lately?" 2K-tan enquired mildly, smirking a 
little and resting both hands on her hips.
	X-tan flushed angrily. "That's... er... I mean... that's beside the 
point! HEY!" This last was shouted as Me-tan grabbed the apple from 
under her arm. "Give it back! AAAAAAA!" The white-garbed girl flung her 
hands up and to one side, one foot raising, as Me-tan glommed her mouth 
over one corner of the apple. "Nuuuuu!"
	"Me-tan!" XP-tan exclaimed.
	"Me-tan, give it back," 2K-tan scolded.
	"Mmph?" Me-tan blinked innocently. There was a loud pop from her lips 
as X-tan yanked the apple away from her, then gazed mournfully at the 
large, perfectly-shaped bite mark in the corner.
	"Just look at it," X-tan bemoaned with a sniffle.
	"We're really very sorry," XP-tan offered. "She's a little out of control."
	"I'm gonna get you!" X-tan wailed, perching her bite-marked apple atop 
her head and running at Me-tan, who squealed and took off running. X-tan 
remained in hot pursuit, fists raised threateningly above her head.
	"So much for a quiet day at the park," 2K-tan murmured, shaking her 
head ruefully.
	"Oh my," 95-tan said quietly, putting one hand to her mouth and 
watching as the other two OS-girls bounded all over the park, Me-tan's 
hands way out in front as if to lend her added speed, X-tan's fists 
waving up and down angrily.
	XP-tan sighed, looking at Linux-tan. "We really are quite sorry about 
any trouble your friend's been put to."
	"Kernel bash deltree bash bash null dev," Linux-tan grumbled, waving 
her spear a bit before turning and wandering off.
	"Did... you understand any of that?" XP-tan asked, looking aside at 2K-tan.
	2K-tan shrugged. "I don't think anyone actually understands Linux-tan, 
though it seems like a lot of people like to feel really superior by 
claiming they do."
	"Buster, would you like to share our picnic?" XP-tan offered, smiling 
again as she looked down at him.
	"Sure!"
	The little group began settling in under the tree, the basket being 
opened and lunch handed out. Off in the background, the chase continued 
up a hill, until Me-tan crashed again and fell on her face, X-tan 
toppling right on top of her, her apple falling off her head and going 
rolling along the ground.

~It is now safe to shut off this fanfic.~


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