Friday Pt 4

The store was enormous but being with Walt had advantages. Not only was he a major shareholder and former employee he was an important business partner and so they got the vip treatment. They were greeted with a personal vip shopping assistant who had a vehicle waiting for them. "Greetings Mr Stark!" Said the smartly dressed young woman. "My name is Terri and I shall be at your service today. How may RealDreams help you today?"

Walt shook her hand. "Don't stand on formality. Walt is fine Terri. Today we're interested in shopping for clothing and accessories for the characters you see here as well as perhaps some parts and/or enhancement mods for the robotic ladies. I think we should start with the later."

Terri smiled with relief and nodded. "Thank you, Walt. Of course. Let's head to the Robotics section immediately!"

They boarded the sleek but simple people mover and headed towards the store from the parking/landing area. They saw a few others getting similar treatment but in much grander styled character pulled rickshaws and carriages. "Apologies but-"

Walt cut Terri off with a smile. "It's fine, Terri. I actually prefer this. That's what my "shopping profile" says doesn't it?"

She breathed a sigh of relief. "I honestly worried it was a mistake!"

Walt chuckled. "I know some folks like all that pomp and ceremony and those carriages but they're just wastefully, gaudy eyesores to me. Never saw the appeal myself. But I know plenty of folks who like that sort of thing and find my own lack of taste questionable. Like they say, no accounting for taste, including my own!" He laughed then looked at her. "You're new?"

She swallowed. "Yes sir!"

He laughed. "Relax. You're doing great. They usually send me the newbies because I'm an easy vip to satisfy. And I'm not buying for 3S today so there'll be no big "bulk" character orders. We're mostly here for just what I said and maybe a little window shopping. So relax. Cushy assignment hopefully."

The girls laugh as Terri visibly does relax. "Thank you, Sir- I mean, Walt." She smiles.

Blake looks at her. "Is it really so stressful to work here?"

Terri glances at Walt but he nods. "It certainly can be. I'm sure some customers are quite the bizarre handfuls."

Terri giggled. "You're not wrong! I've had some really bizarre ones but... we don't talk about other customers. I'm sure you understand."

Walt nodded but Nora said, "you could tell us your most recent weird one though without going into specifics about the customer..."

Terri sighed but nodded. "A horde of flying hermaphrodite monkey girls for a couples costume "party"."

Walt nodded. "Wicked witch?"

Terri nodded. "He wanted to be a crossdressing Wicked Witch of the West and "sic" them on his wife dressed as Dorothy and their best friends as the other characters. They were trained to, well, run a train on her."

"Oh, dear," said Curie as Walt chuckled shaking his head, while Nora tried to process that that was just her most recent odd request and Blake and the others remained silent.

The store really was massive and, much like the earlier analogy by Curie, was set up very similarly to a shopping mall. The bulk of it was the main RealDreams area but other areas that specialized in everything from sex toys to clothes and accessories to modifications to vehicles and equipment were setup around it. Smaller areas that specialized in niche types spread around those. That's where they were headed first for the area devoted to robotics and synthetics.

The place had been given a clean, retro futuristic look. They were greeted by a very grown up and heavily modified Megaman and Roll. "Welcome!"

Megaman was busy showing a customer all the new "attachments" his Mega Buster came with now. Ada, PAM, KL-E-O and Curie were much more interested in Roll anyway.

Curie looked at the sign Roll was holding and the dusplay behind her which basically showed off all her new amazing upgrades. "Is this a synthetic body your robot body was transfered into?"

Roll shook her head causing her upgraded bust to wobble. "No. I'm still in my original body but heavily customized and modified. Including like real skin, enlargement and enhancements as well as working synthetic organ replacements." She blushed.

Ada tilted her head. "What does that mean?"

KL-E-O's eye glowed. "She's a "real" woman... may we... touch?"

Roll nodded and they all looked at Walt who sighed. "Not what we came here for ladies, but go ahead. Just be gentle and play nice. Terri could you answer their questions for me?" Seeing her nod Walt walked up the counter and an available representative who'd just finished selling a Curly Brace came over. "Hello! How can I help you today?"

Walt smiled. "I'm interested in your available selection of parts and mods for several droids including a StarWars T3-M4 and HK-47 and from Fallout protectron units Ada, KL-E-O and PAM, as well as ED-E eyebot and Sergeant RL-3 Mister Gutsy model? Specifically I'm looking for something fancier appropriate for a wedding function but I'd also be interested in other options as well."

"Certainly sir! Let me call up those models on the display here. Ah, here you are. These are a listing of all the available "cosmetic" upgrades for those models. Can I help you find something in particular?"

Walt shakes his head. "No thank you. I would appreciate some time just spent looking, thanks."

The sales associate smiled. "Let me know when I can be of further assistance."

Blake walked over frowning. "Are you really going to change those guys?"

Walt blinked. "You mean the ones who didn't come with us? No. I'm just looking for general upgrades, which I doubt I'll find, I already did that for them. They're running with top of the line parts nows. And these are simple cosmetic adjustments, see."

He showed her. There were more than just simple paint jobs and color changes. There were parts rendered out of rare metals, chassis plates that were beautifully engraved or etched. There were even a section that had "costumes" and "accessories" for them. A "butler" uniform for HK-47 and campaign medals and Ribbons for Sergeant RL-3, for instance.

Mission laughed. "HK as a murderous butler! Priceless!"

Nora shook her head. "A foul mouthed, murderous butler! He's obviously the suspect!" They laughed some more. "Will you get it?"

Walt shook his head. "Definitely not. He's bad enough. Don't antagonize him. It's just how he is. Don't forget that foul mouthed murder Droid would walk through hell for us if we were in trouble. Sure grumbling all the way, but he'd do it."

Blake giggled and she raised an eyebrow. "Your saying he's a tsundere?"

Now Walt laughed. "I didn't murder all these other meatbags because I like you, or anything! Don't get the wrong idea, meatbag!"

Nora laughed. "Maybe we can get a Weiss wig for him!"

"Achooo!"

Ice Queen sneezed then looked disgusted. "Oh great! A chicken feather got in! Now I need to check the decontamination system!"

She stopped trying to decide between pork and beans or beans and pork for her dinner ration later as she walked over to her terminal on her life/work pod and started run a system analysis diagnostic routine.

"Stupid trash world salvage job!"

Walt sighed.

"Something displeasing you, Sir?" Ada asked.

Walt looked at the "ladies" list of requested "upgrades". "Some of these are practical and good ideas, ladies. Especially the requests for more humanoid hands. That will be quite helpful and useful and was well thought out."

"Thank you, Sir," said PAM. "I felt 99.987631245% certain that you'd feel that way."

Walt nodded as he looked over the rest of the list while Blake, Nora and Mission looked over his shoulder.

"Wow," Mission said. "They sure make some interesting parts!"

Blake blushed and Nora nodded.

Walt cleared his throat. "What about these ones? "Feminine beauty ascetic levels 3 or greater"? "Mammary and assets package 3 and greater"? Care to explain?"

They look at each other. "I should think that was obvious, Sir." Ada said.

PAM nodded. "Walter has surrounded himself at home with a vast majority of feminine and female character types and only women."

"Obviously you prefer woman to a man," KL-E-O stated. "Which is our setting anyway. So if you're upgrading our "appearance" we would like to request to look more feminine, Baby."

Walt wanted to say something but Blake, Nora and Mission all nodded. Walt sighed. He could see how they got that impression and... "Alright, you're not wrong. I'll admit that. How you got there is a little shaky but your conclusion is rock solid and accurate."

Walt looked at the rest of the list which was the most troublesome. "These other suggestions..."

"Synthetic like real skin with enhanced sensory function?" Mission asked.

"Oral facial aperature and rear exhaust port?" Nora asked.

Blake blushed but looked intrigued. "Ultimate control "better than the real thing" female reproduction system with enhanced-"

Walt coughed. "Care to explain?"

Ada looked at her "hands", PAM seemed to be calculating and analyzing the best response but KL-E-O simply stated the obvious. "Isn't it obvious? I am a woman, so I want to be a woman. I want to be more like Penny or Curie."

"Is that no good?" Curie asks from behind him where she was talking with Terri. Now she comes up to him.

Walt pursed his lips. "It's not that it's "not good", Curie. It's just not why we came here. It's not our objective."

"I see," she whispered and then walked over to stand with the others. "Because they're robots?"

Walt shook his head. "You know I don't see any of you like that."

"They could have asked to go full synthetic. Like me," she said.

Walt nodded and sighed. Then smiled. "I know when I am beat and I know when I'm wrong." He nodded. "Guess I'm a genie today. Granted. If you ladies want to be upgraded to gynoids we'll do it. Let me just go see how soon we can get you in and how long it'll take."

The customer service representative and Terri are both surprised. They can get the "ladies" in right away and while their requests are for some ultra top of the line high-end mods and specifications the process and request is something that's not an unusual. The timing is tough though. It's a lot of modifications for a rush job. Walt confers with Friday for a bit to see which is faster, RealDreams or the two of them. He nods and agrees and purchases all the necessary parts and equipment. They'll have them start process here and he and Friday would work hard to make it happen at home.

Terri looks surprised though. "Your characters... they ask you for things and you capitulate. Even encourage and humor their requests. That's not something I see a lot, Walt."

Walt chuckled. "No. I imagine you don't, Terri. They're not just my property. They're my friends and family."

She smiles. "That's rather sweet if you don't mind my saying so... and some of them are definitely infatuated with you!"

Walt laughed. "Don't I know it! And the feeling becomes mutual with each one I'm afraid... but they're all worth it!"

He walks over and explains. "So they'll take you now. Pick out and customize the parts you each want. While we finish up shopping. Then Friday and I will work around the clock to make it work tonight."

The three of them are very pleased and Walt just agreed to custom jobs for each of them. They're very thankful. Curie is too. "I shall be happy to assist!"

Walt nodded chuckling. "Good. I've done a lot of robotics work and even cybernetics and androids but I've never turned a robot into gynoid. Thankfully Friday and several of 3S's best can guide me through it but still I'll take all the help I can get!"

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Nora Valkyrie Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Raven Manami Aiba also with Tsuyu Asui Haruhime Sanjouno The Baroness Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana Mission Vao Curie Ada PAM and KL-E-O

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