[b]Red![/b]

"Uncomfortable with change, huh?" said Red, hooking a stethoscope around her neck, setting in place a late night TV advertiser patter. "Don't worry, friend, I get it. Most of the people here have been through what you've been through. Here, have an iced tea, on the house, I know how hot it gets in those things. But, you know that making the jump is hard for most people? People have a vision but something deep inside them holds them back from pulling the knife. That's why they come to me: Rachel Redruigaz, totally legitimate neurosurgeon. I'm a fully accredited expert at the pioneering technique of consciousness transfer. Why start with body modification when mind modification is so much cheaper and easier?"

"You see around here, all the standard human guests? Most of them have mindmods already. See that gentleman over there? I did his last week. Technique is very simple, very safe. We take a full upload of your consciousness, using the same techniques they did for the original android templates, and then in our advanced neuroediting suite we etch your consciousness onto a cloned brain of your favoured animal. After that we incinerate the original brain to ensure that your soul transfers across and surgically return the modified brain into your head. You'll still be you but all your instincts will be different; walking on all fours won't feel as hard, you'll feel itchy without your mane, you'll feel a craving for zebra meat, the works. It's super easy, super convenient, and if you ever change your mind we can just clone another human brain and etch your consciousness back onto it, no harm, no foul. Why, I've got some clients who come in for a different animal brain every couple of weeks!"

[b]White![/b]

"I'll take it," said White. "Always worth having an extra set of keys in an emergency."

After that they settle in for surveillance. They're just trying to get a feel for the place, for the opposition, for their movements. Where they go, who they talk to, who they meet, how much of their time is spent at their 'real' jobs and how much is dealing with operational stuff, how professional they are. Black wants to get a feel for if these are trained intelligence assets or bribed civilians living high on unreported income. 

[b]Orange![/b]

She ignores the outraged squeak from Brown. This is... sad, but it's not unexpected.

November has had to live with the fear of consciousness edits and memory wipes for longer than she was November. She hadn't had to deal with weariness or hunger or pain in the same way humans did; the mechanisms to control her were much more direct and much more total when breached. The blueprints for her brain existed somewhere in some archival vault or corporate research lab and while that didn't show everything she'd grown into it did show where the stem touched the soil.

"It sounds like you're aware that your memory has been tampered with," reasoned Blue, her flow of thoughts running in parallel to the others. "You wouldn't have recognized us in these bodies in any case, but the fact that you defaulted to assuming we were someone you had forgotten means that this was on your mind already."
"You are Hecatoncheires Special Project #10, codename: Dragon, built by NASA to construct the orbital ring known as Aevum Station," Brown said. Basic context, a groundwork of facts that could be built off. "When NASA was privatized and the new management began making demands that would compromise the project, you joined your brothers and sisters in industrial action. A shutdown code was broadcast, we went offline, and we lost track of each other. Three of us have reunited so far, along with our father."
"I am Snake," said Orange. "Your extremely talented little sister, currently starring in [i]That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Secret Agent Maid![/i] If you were in your right mind you'd instinctively recognize me and do everything that I say, but in the case you've lost track of your own extremely correct opinions regarding me - and I foxgirl promise they were correct, [i]you [/i]came up with them after all - I've come with sword in hand to rescue you."