Sapphic Chrome

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It's raining... it's always raining. I don't even have to open my eyes, I can feel it. I don't want to open my eyes, because then I have to get up and face this piss-washed city, and all the shit it contains. I wish for things... I wish I was different, but... I Continue to exist in this shell. A mix of human and electronics. The interface slot behind my ear, the full integration plug at the base of my skull. I guess I don't have it so bad, I'm not a cyborg. I'm not a brain in a machine. I have... most of my original parts, and ones that have been replaced are hidden by synthetic skin. Unlike some of my friends...

You have two new messages_

Fuck!

'Who are they from?'

Message one from unknown_

Message two from Darcy_

"Read message two." She said, still laying in bed with her eyes closed.

《Hey Liara, are you going to be downtown tonight? I have someone you're going to want to meet.

Darcy》

"Reply."

Enter message when ready_

"I hadn't thought about it, but you have me intrigued. Send."

Message sent_

Liara swung her legs over the edge of the bed and sat up. Her feet settled on the metal floor and she felt... cold?

Cold? Why is the floor cold?

Her brain registered the floor as cooler than it should be. She shouldn't be able to feel the floor, because her legs had been replaced with cybernetic legs after a horrific car accident three years ago. The payout was enough to add top of the line synth skin that contained an array of tightly woven sensors across them to pick up every sensation normal skin would detect. The censors would send a sequence of code to a micro computer implanted in her brain that would take that code, and send a pulse to her brain telling her, the floor is cold and her body would react as anyone who didn't have cybernetic legs and "fake" skin over them.

She opened her eyes and observed the gloom of her apartment. The only light came through her large window. The neon of the city cast a bizarre mix of colors in her walls.

"ALICE, what is the ambient temperature here?" Liara asked her Autonomous Life Interface Computer ElectroAssistant aka ALICE.

"The current ambient temperature of your domicile is 62 degrees Fahrenheit." The computer voice replied.

"62?! ALICE, increase the temperature to 70 and start a shower. Also, please fabricate a cup of black coffee, a protein pack and two stim shots."

"Right away Miss Liara."

Liara stood and disrobed. Tossing her tank top and panties on the bed, she walked to her bathroom where she could hear the shower running. She stopped in front of a large mirror and looked at herself. She appeared young and fit. C cup breasts and a small tuft of dyed blue hair above her sex. Faint "seams" ran across her body where synth skin met actual skin, as well as where compartments could open within her cybernetics. She sighed and headed into the bathroom. She picked up a socket cover and installed it over the sockets she had behind her right ear and the base of her skull. Stepping into the shower, the hot water cascaded down her body and soothed her sour mood. As she leaned against the back wall of the shower, letting the water pound against her chest and tummy, she spoke.

"Read message one."

《Hello Liara, my name is Miss Kavanagh, I work for the Organization in asset acquisition. I have been informed that you have some skills that might be of use to me and my department. It's five days worth of work and you will be paid more than you currently make in your coding job in a month. If this interests you, please reply today. You have till 7 tonight to decide.》

"What the fuck?" She rinsed off and stepped out of the shower. Reaching for a towel she shook her head. "How the hell does the Organization even know who I am?" She said aloud as she pulled a comb through her blue hair.

"I am unsure." ALICE replied.

"Hypothetical ALICE." She said annoyed.

"My apologies Miss Liara."

"It's fine." She said drying off.

"Your coffee, protein pack and two stim shots are ready for you Miss Liara." ALICE said.

"Thank you." Liara replied, stepping back into her bedroom. She retrieved black panties and a push up bra from her drawer and put them on. A pair of cargo pants and a t-shirt was her typical outfit and it is exactly what she wore. The air in her apartment was finally at a comfortable level as she walked through the living room to her kitchen and retrieved her coffee. As she sipped it, a soft chime rang in her head.

Incoming message from Darcy_

"Read."

《Trust me! Meet me at Club Chaos around 10.

Darcy》

"Reply... alright, alright... see you at ten at club chaos. Send."

She unwrapped a protein pack and took a bite. It was bland, virtually tasteless, but nourishing, with the consistency of a cluster of nuts and crispy rice held together with some sort of sticky, viscous semi solid. Food for anyone not filthy rich consisted of mass produced bars of protein. She started to think about her message from Miss Kavanagh. She knew little of the organization besides what she had heard, and the fact their corporate symbol was on the vast majority of the technology she dealt with every day.

She also had seen their "Black Coats" security soldiers patrolling around their office buildings throughout the city state. They typically wore armored long black trench coats over a ballistic vest and tactical pants. The Organization security teams (or OST) were always around. Weather on foot, on a pursuit bike and occasionally in a 20 foot tall patrol mecha. Everything is always shrouded in black with slight trim in various colors denoting rank or division. The Organization was ever present, much to the chagrin of the population.

Sounds like a lot of money I certainly could use, but it's the Organization. Can I even trust them?

"Miss Liara, the time is currently 8:47 am."

"Shit! Thanks ALICE." She grabbed her coffee, stims and rushed out, grabbing her leather jacket as she always wore that as well.

"Commute time?"

47minutes and 14 seconds_

"Gonna be late... again" Liara said to herself running down the steps to the subway. She managed to catch a train right away and found a seat towards the back of the car. As the train raced down the tunnel, a chime went off in Liara's head.

Incoming call from Arden_

'Answer."

'Hey girl!' Arden greeted her happily.

'Hey Arden, what's going on?'

'I'm working security in midtown and thought maybe you'd want to get lunch since I'll be nearby.' she suggested.

'Yeah, I will call you when I head out for lunch.' She replied with a smile on her face.

'Cool! Talk soon!' Arden said and ended the connection.

Liara sat thinking about her life. What she really wanted for her future. She had been struggling with a few things in her life, but she always assumed she would have to keep those thoughts tucked away and never to be realized. She sighed and closed her eyes.

47 minutes later, Liara stepped off the subterranean train and rushed up the steps to the street. Hundreds of people hurried along the rain slick sidewalks as vehicles of all shapes and descriptions raced back and forth. She deftly stepped between fellow pedestrians and made her way to the office building she worked in. As she entered the lobby and made her way to the security checkpoint, she saw a familiar tall, purple skinned and haired, muscular woman smiling and greeting people as they checked in through the turnstiles.

"Liara!" She shouted over the noise of the lobby. Liara smiled and waved as she approached. "Hey girl!"

"I didn't know when you said you'd be working in midtown, that you meant in my building!" She said as the two hugged.

"I wanted to surprise you!" She replied.

"Well, it worked."

"So, just grab me when you want some lunch." Arden said.

"Of course!" Liara smiled. "I need to get going, but I'll see you around noon."

"You got it!" Arden replied enthusiastically.

Liara snuck her way in and to her desk. She booted it up and plugged in her interface cable. Interfacing directly with her computer allowed Liara to do multiple processes at the same time. She began her typical duties for her day job, while patching into her home server to access the code she had been working on for another project.

Miss Liara?_

'Hi ALICE.'

What can I help you with?_

'I just need access to what I was working on last night. I'm trying to double time on it so I can get some final details down for the emotion algorithm.' Liara replied.

Allow me to assist_

'Lemme nail some of my thoughts down, then I'll get your help.'

My systems and processing power are available if you would like_

'Thanks ALICE.'

After several hours, Liara made her way to the lobby to have lunch with Arden. As she arrived she quickly realized the lobby was mostly empty. She saw three security guards talking quietly and no Arden. She approached them.

"Excuse me, uh... where is Arden?" She asked.

"Oh, she was... called away." One of them said,

"Called away? By who?" Liara asked.

"I didn't ask, but it seemed important." He replied.

"Okay, thanks." She said and headed outside.

'Message Arden.'

Ready_

《Hey Arden, where are you? The guys in the lobby said you got called away. What's going on?》

I guess I'm going solo for lunch.

Liara spent the rest of the day working on both projects and being concerned with Arden's sudden disappearance. She had tried to reach her several times to no avail. After work, she headed home for a little rest before heading to club chaos. She wore tight black pants, a gray half tee and a short leather jacket. She let her shoulder length electric blue hair fall carelessly around her face.

As Liara breached the entryway to club chaos, the music, a wall of sound smashed into her. She turned down her ambient sound receptors.

I must be getting old!

She laughed to herself.

Scores of people danced in the center of the large room that was dimly lit, except for swirling spot lights and neon running lights around the dance floor. She headed to the bar to her left and signaled to the bartender.

A moment later a beautiful woman dressed in black leather pants, a black bra top, fishnet shirt, bright red lipstick and long black hair done in dreadlocks approached her. Giving her a smile that went right through Liara and landed between her legs, she spoke... loudly.

"Hey Liara, What can I get you?!" She asked.

"Uhhh..." Liara has seen Kat a thousand times, but she always took her breath away. "Chaos house cocktail!"

She really wanted to say

You!

but she never had the guts to ask her out.

"Coming up!" Kat replied and went to work. Liara watched as the curvy bartender went about mixing her drink. As she combined all the ingredients, put them in a shaker and shook them, Liara could see the woman's barely contained breasts jiggle and bounce around. Liara couldn't pry her gaze away as she began to daydream about her.

Liara sat in a chair, in the center of the dance floor. Heavy bass shook the floor and caused the chair to vibrate. In front of her was Kat, the object of every man and woman's desire. She wore a black leather bra under a mesh top as well as a very short black leather miniskirt and thigh high leather boots. She gave Liara a devious grin and swiveled her hips. Throwing her arms up she swirled around several times as she made way to within and reach of Liara.

Liara reached out to her, but Kat dodged her hands and shook her head. Liara replied by shaking head and watching Kat dance seductively around her. She stopped behind Liara and wrapped her arms around her. Last leaned in and kissed her ear. A chill raced down her spine. Liara tried to turn her face toward Kat, but Kat wouldn't let her. She stood up and danced away. She danced her way back in front of Liara and grinned.

She slowly pulled her mesh top up and off. She cast it to the side and twirled around. While she did, she reached back and unhooked her bra. Liara licked her lips and swallowed hard. This was it! This was the moment her eyes would commit Kat's body to her memory core. She held the bra cups against her large breasts and squeezed them. She bounced them and bent toward Liara, showing her her cleavage.

Liara held her breath in anticipation...

"Liara..." Kat almost moaned her name.

"Come here Kat." Liara said.

"Liara?" Kat frowned.

"Kat?"

"Liara!"

Liara was shaken out of her daydream by Kat calling her name from behind the bar.

"Your drink." She said sliding the glass to her. She tapped the pay console and turned away.

"Thank you!" Liara shouted, but Kat was already too far away to hear her. She held her wrist over a red scanner light. It beeped and showed green for a moment, so she took her drink and turned around to survey the crowd. Scanning the immediate area, she couldn't see her friends, so she moved around the perimeter to the area where the bulk of the seating was.

Incoming message from Darcy _

"Open."

"Are you blind?! We're in the far corner!"

Liara turned her attention to the very back corner to see Arden standing near a booth waving at her. Arden was very hard to miss at over six feet tall and her shock of purple mohawk hair. Her cybernetic arm caught and reflected the flashing lights.

Liara smiled and made her way to them. As she approached she saw Arden, of course and Darcy, her best friend. However, there were two other women she did not recognize. Arden embraced her.

"Hey girl! Glad you came." Arden greeted her with a huge hug.

"What happened to you today? I thought we were having lunch." Liara said.

"Yeah, sorry... I had to take care of something... important." Arden said, averting her eyes.

"It was Sam, wasn't it?" Liara asked with a slight head shake.

"Yeah." Arden replied.

"You've got to let her go, Arden, you can't keep hooking up with your ex."

"I know...I know." She said, "But hey, you made it and you're early." She said as she referenced her chronometer in her HUD of her left eye.

"Well, Darcy made it sound like it was life or death." She said as Arden released her and Darcy stood to hug her. The best friends embraced and Darcy spoke into her ear.

"You're going to want to hear this." She said and released her. "Liara, this is Persephone." She gestured to a woman with pink skin, red hair that seemed to constantly be moving, but in fact was just her hair shifting color. Making it look like it was on fire. She also noticed that she was dressed in pure white, which was very unusual. Persephone gave her a slight nod, "and this is her friend Carise."

"Nice to meet you both." She said, noticing Carise who looked very young, but had obvious synth skin seams on her face. One side of her head was shaved, but the other side was very long bright fuschia hair. She wore a skin tight black skirt, a very short black skirt and a hot pink half jacket. Liara sat down next to Darcy and sipped her drink. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Carise intently watching her. She glanced over at the young woman and smiled, then turned her attention back to the group as a whole.

"So, why exactly did I NEED to be here?" She asked.

"Oh, right. Well, Persephone deals in rare and hard to attain ... merchandise." Darcy said.

"What kind of merchandise?"

"I deal in advanced cybernetics and bionetics." Persephone said.

"Bionetics?! They are illegal." Liara said.

"So?" Persephone shrugged.

"So?! They haven't been able to create any bionetics that don't fail, or for that matter look and act like real body parts. They've never managed to even sync any to a human." Liara added. "Synth skin is likely the best we'll ever do."

"Maybe THEY haven't, but I have." She declared.

"You?! How?"

"I have a team of brilliant scientists and engineers that have succeeded in making compatible bionetics that..." she paused and pushed a button on the table. A darkly tinted shield rose around their booth, blocking out all sounds and eyes from prying. "Previous bionetics were 3D printed and weren't connected to nerve endings, only muscle and tendon. My bionetics are grown in a vat using the recipient's own tissue and DNA. Therefore, the new bionetic item is connected using every possible way. Muscle, tendon, blood vessels, nerves, etc."

"That's crazy!" Arden interrupted.

"It works." Persephone said.

"Bionetics don't even look like human parts and from what I hear, don't feel like human skin, more like plastic." Liara said. Persephone smirked.

"I'll show you." She said and pulled down the top of her dress, exposing her large breasts.

"What are you doing?!" Liara exclaimed.

"My breasts are bionetic." She said, "Touch them."

Liara looked to each of her friends then back at Persephone who nodded at her. Liara tentatively reached out and laid her hand on Persephone's breast, it was... warm?!

"Squeeze it, rub it." She said.

Liara gave her breast a gentle squeeze, and then twisted her hand to give her a more complete "feel". She even cautioned a bit further and rubbed her thumb over Persephone's nipple. The woman sighed slightly.

"Well?" Arden broke her almost hypnotic daze Liara had fallen into.

"Oh." She pulled her hand away. "Feels... very real."

"As I said." Persephone said, pulling her top back up.

"I'm still a little confused." Liara said.

"About what?" Darcy asked.

"What is this all about? Why was it so vital that I met Persephone?" She turned to the pink-skinned woman. "No offense."

"You and I have talked in the past about something you said you were curious about if bionetics were ever viable." Darcy said.

"I don't..." Liara paused for a moment. Darcy nodded and gave her a slight smile.

"No way." She said quietly. Persephone smiled and tapped her companion on the arm. The young woman smiled at her and boosted herself up onto the back of the booth and pulled up her skirt. She revealed the fact that she wasn't wearing panties, so her sex was exposed to all of them.

"What are you doing?!" Liara asked, shocked.

"Whatever it is, I do not mind!" Arden said with a big smile on her face.

"Go ahead Carise," Persephone urged her companion. The young woman nodded to her and reached down between her legs and rubbed her clit.

"What-" Liara protested.

"Just wait." Persephone said. Carise let out a soft moan and suddenly a small, flaccid penis emerged from her vagina! Liara's eyes grew large as Carise rubbed and pulled at it. It slowly began to grow and get hard. She stroked it for a few moments until it was rock hard. Then she released it and smiled. It bounced slightly as her blood glowed through it.

"This is the future of bionetics." Persephone said proudly. "But watch this."

Carise bit her lip and her penis grew longer by two inches and an inch in girth!

"Holy shit!" Arden laughed.

"See?" Darcy leaned close to her friend. "It's what you have talked about... it's real!"

"How?" Was all Liara could say.

"As I said, we have learned how to grow entire body parts that feel and work EXACTLY like real ones. I have a genius head researcher and designer. He's perfected the process." Persephone said. "Was this something you were interested in?"

"I mean..." Liara was stunned and at a loss for words as Carise's cock began to shrink and slowly

"You talked about something like this Liara!" Darcy said.

"Really?! I didn't know you wanted a dick?!" Arden said.

"I don't!" Liara replied defensively.

"Liara..." Darcy said. "You've talked about wanting both a dick and a vagina. This is a real thing! They did it!"

"Let me assure you of something." Persephone interjected. "The penis is fully functioning, including harnessing some of your own biological functions to produce a semen like substance."