Booth babes

"Oh no no no, we're not done here. You put my career in jeopardy with this little stunt," Gordon said, remembering his parental nature as Luke and the others tried to weasel out of responsibility. "It might still be. I'm here because I got the page from the alert system from the Yabusa drone."

Luke snorted. "Yabusa still uses pagers?"

"Can it, Luke." Gordon crossed his arms. "I've got some ideas for how you can all make it up to me though. I've got some ideas now that I need to get back to Yabusa's R&D department on with this whole phase thing to see what they think, but I'm putting you three to work! You've basically been renting my robots all afternoon, so you're going to pay for that rented time."

The trio looked at each other, worried what exactly Luke's dad was meaning.

"Enjoying your time at Moto-Con? I'm so glad you came to visit the Yabusa booth! We've got so much to show off this year!"

Ivy giggled as she put her hands on her hips, standing in front of a giant Yabusa Robotics banner at the center of the massive booth in the convention center. Her practiced smile and carefully-groomed blonde hair charmed passersby; her body, wearing a black tank top and pants with the Yabusa logo on each, caught most of the rest. But even if none of those worked, the sleek black 'wings' of the Yabusa Angel 800 technology attached to her back. It wasn't the full gear necessary for a real ride, but Ivy was present out front not for test rides. She was there to attract visitors, particularly drawing them away from the Hideki booth. And with her practiced smile and her sexy attire, she seemed to be doing just that.

"Can you show us the... the thing?" one of the press members said, camera at the ready.

"You got it!" Ivy tucked herself down, as the fairings enclosed around her, wrapping up around her body as her feet and hands gripped onto the wheel axles. Even missing most of the riding gear, the handlebars and basic seat cushion on her back made a very convincing, complete Angel motorcycle. Cameras clicked and lights flickered, as moments later, Ivy reversed the process, standing back up as her cowlings in the wing shape held close to her back. "It's not just me, though. Have you guys talked to Jamie yet?"

Ivy pointed over at another woman with her own practiced smile--a brunette wearing some very unique armor! James apparently had adopted a different name, strolling right over to Ivy and wrapping a sleek, glossy black arm around her girlfriend, leaning in for a quick kiss--that seemed to get quite a few phones recording videos for the con highlight reels!

Jamie stepped back, holding an arm out as it reconfigured into various 'battle modes', from blades to gun barrels to some larger projectile launchers. From the waist down, along her spine, and out to her arms at the shoulders, a modified armor set based on the Meteor V wrapped around Jamie's body, looking just a little bulkier than her normal body. A slim, toned waist connected to a generous chest in a sports bra, her torso strategically left uncovered so cleavage might pull in a few con-goers. It seems that did the trick, especially when Jamie constantly fiddled with the too-tight attire with those mechanical hands, having to be careful to not just rip the fabric right off. Jamie's face retained the same appearance she'd kept for the past year, with matching brown locks running over her shoulders, with such a lovely look about her. The combination of sex appeal at the center of powerful-looking armor seemed to intrigue quite a few onlookers--if not in their minds, certainly in their pants.

A third woman trotted right up behind the two. "Hey, don't forget about me!" she said cheerily. The Ichabod frame allowed her to tower above the other two, with her voluptuous frame seamlessly blending into the form, with only a black bikini top to hide any remaining bit of modesty. Atop her body was Luke's head--the androgynous face, with just the right application of makeup and carefully styled hair, gave her this incredible tomboyish look. People really ooh'd and ahh'd at the massive robotic centaur, as she crossed her arms and grinned like an idiot for the photographers, standing behind the other two girls.

They looked at each other, putting on their best facade of enjoyment for their job as the greeters and eye candy for the entrance to the Yabusa booth. Everything about how they talked and moved was a product months in the making, working with trainers and choreographers and coaches to hit just the right intersection of cute, sexy, cool, intimidating, powerful, ****. Yabusa often used these tactics at various trade shows and conventions to distract everyone from the lack of content that could compete with the likes of Hideki tech's latest bizarre innovations. But this year was different--this year, the booth babes were part of the innovations themselves!

In truth, the girls were quite nervous, huddling next to each other. Being on display like this, objectified by the media and visitors, was even more challenging given that each were in fact part object. Two of these girls hadn't been so for very long, and the third wasn't used to this kind of attention either. All were in an awkward position, each were tired after days of greeting and chatting with strangers, but in order to fulfill their ends of the bargain for Gordon... the show had to go on. They had to use their bodies, both the sexy flesh parts and the metallic, imposing, sci-fi parts, to pull people in to the main event, possibly the device that was going to steal the show: The Phase Binder.

If Yabusa's R&D department was anything, they were fast. With an idea with enough math to support it, they quickly got to work, and Gordon Grisham was credited with the patent. Of course, he took some serious inspiration from Lucas's abilities, studying Luke's replicator, absorption, and modification abilities in **** detail, to the point where Luke was exhausted each night. Dreams of attending Seatown University vanished in support of this new job, as now all three girls became overnight sensations, full-time mascots for Yabusa with their integrated tech and seamless cyborg bodies. Talk shows, tech demos, meet-and-greets, photo ops, all of it became part of a marketing blitz by Yabusa to capitalize on finally having something that not just enabled the Angel 800 project to its full potential, but opened the door to other opportunities!

Past the Yabusa gates, the Phase Binder was being demonstrated to excited onlookers. Luke--or, Lucy, in this incarnation--glanced back to watch it in action, as a woman was getting ready to demonstrate a Phase Bind to a machine, called the Silverback--an exoskeleton with massive arms, each almost as large as the woman herself! The Phase Binder created a gooey membrane around the other Yabusa staff, as she seemed to just walk right into the Silverback tech, aligning herself carefully with the machine so her spine and legs seemed to just absorb some of the technology into her. Once the goo extracted back into the Phase Binder machine, she held her normal arms out in a pose--followed by her massive robotic arms, fully integrated into her body! Lots of applause and posing followed, as maybe a half dozen girls throughout the Yabusa booth were showing off even more integrated cybernetic women, created hastily with whatever idea Yabusa R&D could think of purely to show off the new tech.

The day felt like it lasted forever, but eventually the crowd died down as the convention came to a close. There was still three more days of this...

With the press and con-goers out of sight, the trio tried to catch a moment of rest. Lucy leaned her torso forward, eyes closed, like she wanted to fall asleep then and there. Sitting side-saddle, Jamie and Ivy sat atop Lucy's sturdy lower half. Jamie's arms wrapped around the waists of both Lucy and Ivy, while Ivy leaned against Jamie's side, her Angel wings drooping.

"So exhausting," Lucy said, trotting along slowly toward the center of the Yabusa booth to where a happy-looking Gordon fiddled with the Phase Binder. The half-dozen other women seemed more energized than they had been, since they didn't live their whole lives with those cybernetics like the trio now did. The other girls seemed to enjoy arm-wrestling with the robotic limbs, or the one with a mermaid-like tail and scuba modules seemed to revel in just endlessly posing and flapping around in the small tank of water, even with nobody looking. It was fascinating to all of them, when they'd been like that for less than a week.

Gordon looked up, and gave a thumbs-up to the trio. "Good work today, ladies," he said, apparently fully accepting of James and Luke now swapped into the forms of beautiful women. That in fact was his idea to maintain the appearance, inspired by pit girls at car races that Yabusa was better known for. "There's a lot of buzz about all this, it's going to revolutionize Yabusa's products! Did Vanessa tell you that there's talks about a live action TV show with you three featured in it? Maybe even action figures."

Lucy sighed. "Dad... after this, I thought we were going to be done. Can't we be done, isn't this enough?"

"Oh, of course not, not anymore. This is too big, we're only getting started! Go get some sleep, tomorrow is another long one. And don't think about walking off, the inhibitor chips will just walk you right back to me, got it?"

Lucy wordlessly trudged off, carrying the other two exhausted girls with her, toward the doors leading out to their shared trailer, to try to relax, relieve some stress, and get some actual rest. These Phasebound girls, as they were called internally, seemed stuck to more than just their new mechanical limbs.