Show Lancer her potential

You continued to play around with Lancer's body, enjoying your vantage point in her body. Her fit body was so enticing to you, as you rubbed her thighs together lightly. Lancer had a lot of discipline from her time in the Air ****, but when you had direct control of her whole self, pressed within this outer skin up against her--which she was indeed acutely aware of as well--she couldn't help but moan lightly.

"Okay, doc, I'll admit... this is pretty cozy. I guess I could get used to it, though it's... profoundly bizarre. But what exactly are we doing now..?"

You spoke in to Lancer's ear as you ran your hands down her stomach. "An audition. Or, consider it more like this: I want an advisor to Project Inside Out, and as the assistant director, I'm allowed to hire on advisors to help define what an astronaut needs out of their flight suit. And I don't mean physics and specs, I mean... what sort of things do you know about a spacewalk? More than most people on the planet, since you've done these things. Not a single staff member in the R&D rooms at Hideki Labs has ever been on anything more than a passenger jet. That includes the military personnel... I don't know why Dr. Brooks brought nobody with any personal experience with space onto staff."

Lancer rolled her eyes a little, as you floated her toward some reflective surfaces. "So this is, what, the physical?"

You giggle a little in her ear. "Somewhat. I want to fast-track you to be able to wear an exosuit as well. Which likely means, you'll have to become much like me. Maybe almost exactly like me. In the future, this could be you..."

The Captain audibly gasped as her skin altered, taking on the same shimmering, glittering exterior like you'd experienced by absorbing the nanites into your system. You'd suppressed that look so others didn't look strangely at you in passing, but in space... the glitter flowed along your exterior, covering Lancer's shape you'd assumed. The same glowing blue lines coursed along her limbs, forming the circuitry shapes you'd experienced on your form. The difference on Lancer's form were the tattoos she had on her shoulder, a bird holding a knife in its beak, were lit up in a brilliant blue as well.

To top it off, her hair turned a snowy white, not out of necessity, but you enjoyed seeing Lancer with a similar appearance. You relaxed your control, as Lancer reached up to run her hand through some of her hair, removing the ponytail--the hairband vanishing due to being made out of your nano-slime--to get a better look at the white locks, which also glittered and had a pearly shine to it.

"So..."

"Incredible." You whispered in her ear.

You swapped out exteriors again, opening up the body--to Lancer's fright, she didn't expect her body to suddenly open up at the stomach--as your exosuit came to the fore, once again covering the body. It gripped the body tight, sturdily holding everything in place. Despite the different frame of the Captain's body, the exosuit was adjustable easily to cover her body with no trouble at all. "Go ahead, move around, try everything. Don't mind me, I'm just observing."

Lancer hesitated, but she went about her duties on the ship wearing your exosuit, easily maneuvering all around the cabin. She noticed a lot of things that were unique to this new body she was now experiencing. Your gyroscopic stability made it easier to keep her position steady in space, the gloves were themselves armored but she could easily type as if she was using her hands free of any exterior covering. You formed displays on her arms and torso, providing her with vitals data and other information about the cabin's environment that were even more accurate than the other cabin instruments.

After a half-hour of testing, Lancer sat back into her cockpit chair, lost in deep thought for a while. Eventually, you decided to chime in. "So, will you join me at Hideki? Would you accept becoming the next core of a body like mine? The only way to get the project going immediately for you will be to be like me."

"It's... a lot to think about. It's intoxicating, and I need time before I can say yes. But... I want to do one more thing before I accept or decline anything. I think you'll find it quite exhilarating, though, if you'll agree to it."