She found Iris

Valerie had almost finished her work by the time Hawk arrived in the data center. She had carefully crossed her legs so the tear in her suit near her crotch was hidden as she sat.

She showed him Iris's location on the building map. "Can you take this? As you can see, I don't have a lot of pockets.", she said wryly, handing him an access card. She continued, "We can use this passage over here. There's an elevator shaft here that we can climb, bringing us to the same floor as Iris. After that, we just need to find her and get her out of here."

"Sounds like a plan. Let's go.", he replied, turning around and moving towards the exit.

She got up from her chair and began to walk. She felt the now-familiar rush of air on her exposed back, but there was something different this time.

Her suit felt really rigid. Not only that, her entire backside was...unrestrained. She stopped mid-stride as her eyes widened in horror, realizing what had just happened. She didn't even dare to look, bringing her hands behind her into contact with her butt.

Her stomach fell as she touched skin. She looked back at the chair, and saw the seat was full of flakes of hardened fabric, in the shape of her ass and thighs.

It dawned on her. The strange chemical combined with the cold hadn't just made her suit harden - it had also made it very brittle. When she had stood up, the part of her suit that was in contact with the chair had stayed on the chair.

From the back, she was effectively naked, exposed from her neck to the back of her knees.

With the mission still not over, she was in a perilous position. Despair started to build inside of her.

"You coming?", said Hawk, standing at the exit.