There's a new doctor in town

You were both amazed by the results, and proud of your handiwork. You know only a third of you was responsible for this final shape, but you took the credit. It's a team effort! With no thoughts bubbling up in your mind objecting to the arrangement, you put your hands on your hips, thinking about what you were going to do next.

Your thoughts weren't just focused on the next few moments of admiring your body, of feeling how Zoe's shell felt wrapped around your new singular self. You were thinking longer term. Much, much longer term.

Again, you surprised yourself that this was the case, but there was also no conflict. You expected a little angel-Zoe and devil-Chloe to pop up on your shoulders to argue, saying whether it was right to stay combined like this. But, there was no conflict in you. Every part of you was all for this new combination, and the amazing feeling of boundless potential that came from it. Not one thought about splitting up crossed your mind as you envisioned tomorrow. Next year. Next decade. However long this might last.

And that was an interesting conundrum. Both the slime and bodysuit were naturally regenerative beings, there was no theorized lifespan for them. Even in lab tests, the only thing that ever caused any tissue degradation was if the structures couldn't absorb energy from a host. In theory, they could survive far longer than a host.

A human under constant contact with both the bodysuit and slime, though? They were designed to restore, replenish human bodies from illness and damage. Some of your research indicated this might also reverse aging, that the slime can reverse mitochondrial aging and restore telomere length in a cell. The woman you'd become might outlive the average human. Maybe by a significant degree... possibly as unlimited as the slime and bodysuit might be.

That thought tickled a smile to your face. Sure, you were thinking as one mind instead of three, but you hardly felt lonely like this in your new body.

You made a decision, then. You had to think long-term from then and there, as you were ready to walk a path different than the three beings that combined to create you. That meant new name, new look, new objectives. With Zoe's optimism and Chloe's authoritativeness, you could become the next head scientist. You could become a director of the biomedical division. Maybe even become the head of Hideki Labs.

First thing was first--your appearance. You stared at your reflection in the glass for some time, trying to figure out how to best approach a new form. For a while you struggled over mixing together features of the three people that made you, as whenever you tried a combination of facial features, you were hit with a wave of confused feelings about the look. Each component of you admired certain features of the other two, so no combination felt truly complete. Then it struck you--you needed to create something out of the absence of your notable features. You needed to create a face and body that no one would look at and recognize any part of you as having come from any of the three faces you contain.

Your face altered dramatically, fine-tuned to look alluring, mysterious, and perhaps even a little intimidating. Your eyes turned icy blue, almost shimmering like crystals, as your hair grew out, gaining some extra elegant waves as you styled it out. Deciding on a color was a challenge... so you picked something that would make sense even if you were hundreds of years old, and your hair shifted to a snowy white color. You certainly didn't look old, though... your youthful appearance coupled with your exotic features certainly made you stand out.

Your curves took slight alterations, taking on a little extra height as you grew your legs out a bit more, giving you extra real estate to flare your legs into your hips, and then taper back, before reaching your breasts. You certainly couldn't get enough of Zoe's breasts, but you did minor alterations to their size and heft, gaining a little more roundness and perk, in a way that they tapered delightfully with the other contours of your body. They'd look amazing either wrapped up in a long labcoat or free as you had them now.

The slime that remained outside your body, which you still had a strong connection to, readjusted into a shorter skirt with a plunging neckline, but something that looked a little more work-ready when you slipped Zoe's long white labcoat over your shoulders. You left it open and unbuttoned, so you weren't hiding anything of yourself from anyone else who might see you.

As you gathered your things--all of your things from each part of your consciousness--you realized you needed to work on a name. Emily's middle name was June... but you wanted something a little more exotic, you deserved it. Juno, that sounded lovely. It meant 'lady', which was an apt descriptor of you, for certain. As for a surname, you needed something that represented your origin. There were three minds in this one body... Ternion. It was an archaic word for 'trio' that didn't sound out of place as a name. And of course, you have two Ph. Ds, so you felt plenty qualified to consider yourself a doctor.

Dr. Juno Ternion. It felt so great.

You deposited some of your items in Zoe's lab, just because it was closer, but you kept all your badges with you. The badges of Dr. Walker and Dr. Hildebrand gave you full access to every floor except floors 8 and 9, a second R&D floor working on some other isolated projects. That was standard protocol, as those personnel didn't have access to floor 5 either, and you had no clue if there was anything on either of those floors nearly as wonderful as you. But you had some work to do, and those floors weren't really where you needed to go next.

Rather, you needed to get your new self settled for a new life at Hideki Labs, and the button you pressed for the elevator was the first step.