Bob Hernandez works in the legal department and has no clue why he was chosen to be one of the Beta testers for this new suit. Well, no, that's not entirely true. He figures part of it is to assess risk exposure for the company, to identify possible avenues for lawsuits they need to address in the eventual waiver for this thing. But seriously, a guy pushing 50 and slightly overweight, with a suit like this? He's going to look ridiculous in this thing, and he is sure his wife Helen won't try it on, though she would like kinda sexy in the form fitting material. Like one of those girls in the Tron movie....
His reverie is broken by the light changing, and his ability to now make the left turn into his neighborhood, pulling into the two car garage, with one side empty since his new electric car is in the shop and he was stuck driving the sport-ute they had before their daughter left for her new job overseas. Bob parks and shuts the garage door, heading in with the suit in a garment bag, wondering how he will explain this thing to Helen. She works from home doing copy editing and promotional writing though Bob was unable to get his company to consider bringing her in as a freelance writer for their new consumer division.
He opens the door into the laundry room that is between the garage and kitchen, calling to his wife "Helen, I'm home, and well, I have something to show you" Helen comes into the kitchen from the study, where she does her work. She is wearing her customary yoga pant style leggings, cami top, and athletic shoes. They are something of a mismatch, with her being three years shy of 50 while Bob is within a month of that milestone. But he had a cardiac event four years ago, which wound up being due to a previously undiscovered genetic abnormality, and that derailed his fitness regime as well as the sports he liked to play. It's been a challenge to see and feel his body seem to age so much in these last four years, and while Helen has been supportive and understanding, he feels he is holding her back since she is still so fit and the two of them have diverged so greatly in their personal health, fitness and physiques. But they love each other, and she has repeatedly said she understood and didn't hold his new limits against him. Even now, she comes over and hugs him, patting his now somewhat more padded rear before he can even consider pinching her still firm butt. "Bring me a present dear, hmmm, I see the clothes bag, but don't recognize the logo from the sto...wait, isn't that your work logo?"
He nods and takes the garment bag off his shoulder, laying it on the empty kitchen table, unzipping it under Helen's somewhat skeptical yet intrigued eyes. Those eyes widen a bit at the spandex looking shimmery suit with inlaid circuitry "Um, when did your company get into costume design for scifi movies? That looks....odd. And clingy" Bob chuckles and shakes his head "I thought so too, but you know how the company did high energy physics work for the department of defense? Apparently they were working on some matter transformation stuff, maybe to pitch to DoD, maybe to CIA, who knows? But, when those contracts were cancelled, they kept up the research, and well, apparently, invented this. It's a beta version of a suit, that allows the person wearing it to either transform themselves, or be transformed using an app. They picked people from various departments to test it, and I got popped to do so from legal."
Helen picks it up, clearly skeptical, and holds it before herself, which makes Bob realize he was right: she WOULD look sexy in it, like a Tron girl, but she says "So, someone puts this on, and they can turn themselves into....what, anything? Or be transformed by someone else using their phone? I don't buy it." He shrugs halfheartedly "I didn't either, but they demonstrated it to me, turned a guy into a chair using it, craziest thing I ever saw. But they want me to try it out, well, us to be honest. I was thinking:
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