At the office Tim and Carla went in together to John's lab. John said "Ah, welcome back to my lab Carla. You must be Tim right?"
Tim nodded and asked "So what exactly is this experiment stuff you are doing?"
Carla said "I think it'll be easier to just show..."
John nodded and said "I suppose... Oh I managed to make a small modification in the chamber. You can get undressed in there and store your clothes in a labeled compartment." Carla nodded and let herself into the chamber. John went to his computer and asked "So Tim, mind if I asked what sort of relationship you have with Carla?"
Tim asked "Does that matter?"
John nodded and said "It kinda does. If lovers I'll just show you everything, if not... Well I'll have to get to a little modification of the feed."
Tim said "I'm just an old friend, but was curious what she was subjecting herself to."
John nodded and said "Alright... I'll edit things then... Well first part isn't much of a show so... Ok she's ready inside so I'll get part 1 out of the way." then hit a button and Tim looked at the machine as it charged itself with energy and then discharged it immediately.
Tim asked "That's not much of a show?!? The heck is going on?!?"
John said "I mean... that was probably 49% of the energy... another 49% for the second zap, but the actual show and interest comes in during the middle step... Got her clothes on so feel free to come over."
Tim took a look and saw Carla on the computer screen and asked "So... this is some VR thing? But..." Tim ran over to the chamber and saw it was completely empty. "But wait that means that..."
John said "Yeah, she's in the virtual world and only in the virtual world."
Tim "Haven't you heard of the star trek transporter theory? The woman I just saw is dead an-"
John groaned and said "Hey I'm a nerd too! I wouldn't have started this if there weren't demonstrations of soul consciousness transference tech that I've Incorporated into my little baby there."
Carla's voice from a speaker said "Hey! Anyone out there? You put me in this test suit, and what's going on?!?"
John spoke inside "Oh, Tim was just concerned over Star Trek Transporter fan theories. Don't worry you are still the original Carla... in a manner of speaking."
Tim glaring said "Ok..." then looking at the mic spoke towards it as well "So I assume that without a body you remodel Carla's body, and then reconstruct the edited body."
John shrugged his shoulders and said "I still have the original body's data in case Carla ever wants anything back, but I'll admit for her last body I just took a female body avatar and morphed Carla's body to fit it besides the face. However now with a bit more data from a few more subjects to make her change complete I'll just take the organs from a healthy woman who was 20 or so and put those into Carla's form. So now she'll have true female biology with all the complications that come with it."
While John was typing Tim asked "Wait you just use someone else's body without-"
John sighed and said "Part of the forms say that we get the right to use your body's data for medical purposes, but we cannot use your data to make clones or duplicates of your person. If we got someone who was dying of cancer or something we'd keep their body's general shape but would have to give them someone else's organs or they'd still have the cancer somewhere. Now here comes a question. Would you be interested in going in there as well? You'd have the option to change something about yourself, anything really... You'd just have to sign on a form."
Carla said "Come on in Tim the weathers... Well there isn't really any weather... Heck I don't think there's any actual air in here... it's odd not breathing."
Tim thought to himself and then...