The Score
By Chanel Harry, first published in The City: A Cyberfunk Anthology
A young, Black woman is the leader of The Collective, who is trying to rescue the leader's twin sister from an evil politician.
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Nia is one of the leaders of a rebellion called The Collective. She is missing her love, Dante, and her twin sister, Dia. Dante is in custody after getting caught being part of the group, and Dia became the Politician's girlfriend. The Politician is a man named Malum. He is the one responsible for putting Dante away, and he plans to kill Nia as well as the rest of The Collective. Nia wants to kill Malum and rescue her sister from his evil clutches. Nia begins to plan how to help her sister, but as she is planning to find Dia, she notices a shadowy figure following her. At first, she ignores the strange figure and turns on the news in which she hears that Malum will be in the southside of the City. Unfortunately, the figure now it seems to be insistent, but Nia braves her stalker and learns its name. A man named Ososi comes out of the shadows and warns Nia against going to Malum and rescuing her sister herself. Meanwhile, Dia is trying to plan revenge on Malum as she had learned that Malum had killed her parents when she was a child. Dia wants to kill him but does not want her sister to come in and ruin her plans. Nia connects with all her crew members, friends, and accomplices in order to go ahead with the rescue mission anyway. She makes it to the southside of the City and meets her sister. Nia learns the truth about Malum and agrees that he must be taken down. They find and corner him and Dia finally takes her revenge. Dia shoots him and the two sisters are finally together again.