Too Much Time in the Lab

She was already stripping down, wasn't she? Rosetta glanced back at Zoe and found her to be already half naked. A light blush came to her face as she turned back to Sarah. The scientist also glanced at Zoe, but more to confirm whether or not the procedure would carry on, and without much change to her appearance, Sarah turned to the console and inputted some commands.

"Step inside when you are ready." Part of the glass tubing slid out and around, revealing that the tube was not a singular piece after all. It was just so well fitted that the gap was close to invisible. Something that looked like a gasmask with transparent rubber tubes dropped down from a compartment on the device topping the tube. It would cover Zoe's nose and mouth, so she wouldn't drown in the so-called suspension fluid.

"Very well, I shall take 25 grams of material from each of your limbs, 20 grams from your spine, and 50 grams from your torso and abdominal areas. Is that okay with you?"

Rosetta looked at the sinister-looking needles hanging inside the edges of the tubes and shuddered. "This looks like something from saw," she mumbled, shuddering again. When she was addressed, she looked up and nodded shakily. "Y-yeah. It's just a little... unsettling is all..."

Sarah nodded and turned back to the console to make the final configurations, meanwhile Rosetta shook her head. "N-no. Those ones are just... big..." and quite frankly, she looked at the jars that were probably going to be where the samples are kept, and by their size and quantity, if something went wrong, it looked like three thirds of Zoe could fit there. She wasn't even sure if there were more on the back.

Given the signal, Sarah sealed the tube shut and released a clear, viscous fluid. Zoe would feel that it was cool and heavier than water. The mask also automatically tightened a bit more to the optimal tension, and locking in place to stop the suspension fluid from intruding. As the liquid rose, to the top, Zoe's body would be floating inside. A speaker, tuned to be audible through the liquid sounded from inside the tube. "Now relax."

On regular organics, the fluid would have already begun to numb the whole body. The multiple mechanical arms grabbed the limbs, while the larger one grabbed the torso from behind. "Extracting in 3... 2... 1."

The countdown was to give the devices time to pick a spot to jab the needles in. It was always better to leave the skeletal structure alone. On 1, they all inserted into the android's body. A stream of nanomachines entered, cutting and carrying off samples which was then sucked up through the tubes and into the jars. Secondary arms would also move towards higher and lower spots on the limbs, each taking samples from different sections of the body and limbs, as Sarah had told Zoe.

Seeing Rosetta's discomfort at the sight of the jars being filled, a metallic shielding rose up around them to cover them up. When Rosetta turned to Sarah, the latter simply said, "I won't have you vomiting in my lab."

When the set samples have all been collected, the nanomachines retreated back to the devices, the needles retracted and Zoe was released from the mechanical arms, save for the large one around her back, which now just kept her in the center of the tube, and would later stop her from crumpling on the floor when the liquid drained.. The process would have taken 10 minutes in total. But the liquid wasn't draining yet at the end of it.

"Take around five minutes to recuperate your body. Then signal me when you're ready to exit the tank."

At Zoe's signal, the liquid drained, and all the mechanical arms save for the large one around her torso retracted to the top. She was sprayed with a shower of water for a good minute to remove the residual suspension fluid. As soon as Zoe was standing on her own, the large arm would release her and join the smaller arms in their ports. The tube would also open up now to let Zoe out. A mechanical arm outside the holding tank offered Zoe a towel to dry herself off.

Rosetta approached Zoe to make sure she was okay, and on the off-chance of her slipping, catch her from her fall. "Are you okay, Zoe?"

"I forgot about one last thing," Sarah said, yawning a little. "I still need your programming architecture. If you're up for it, we can do that now, but I can wait until you're fully recovered."

Rosetta felt her heart throb when Zoe pressed up against her. She could feel the warmth of her body, the softness of her mounds, and the the firmer peaks. The way Zoe was holding and looking at her didn't help either. Was this a message? Was Zoe programmed to tease people like this? It could very well just be an innocent accident and Zoe's lack of feeling embarrassment would have let these things happen more often, but Rosetta just froze in place like a deer staring at headlights.

Well, what else was she going to do?

"Sit back down on the examination chair. I hope I have a cable compatible with your port. I assume your main one is the port on your neck?"

"Hmm... let me see that port," Sarah said, moving behind the android and lifting her hair up so she could see the port clearly. She sighed. "The connector you need is not used on Earth, is it? Because I can't recall anything that might fit into the port."

Luckily, Zoe said she could interact with devices just by touching the connectors. if that was the case, then Sarah would gladly take the secondary option. "Do you have a schematic for this? I might be able to modify existing cords to be compatible. It won't be pretty to look at, but it should do its job."

Rosetta simply watched the two go about their business, trying not to look the android's exposed bits. Looking to Sarah, she wondered if she was distracted by the naked android. She didn't seem to be, she was just moving like she was working with a piece of machinery. Well... androids were pieces of machinery, weren't they? Was that all this scientist saw in the android? Maybe she's just seen so many like this that she was desensitized? Would it be different if Zoe had a body constructed to look male? 'Or maybe she just doesn't have a perverted mind. Stop looking at Zoe's breast!' Rosetta quickly caught herself staring and looked instead to Sarah on the console. She hoped Zoe didn't see her staring like that.