"Hurry up" Kimber squealed with excitement
"You can't rush art" Aja frowned, "I've got to solder some more wires first, unless you want to try it yourself"
"Nah" Kimber waved away the offer
Just then, there was a knock at the door, the garage door
"Good, the pizza's here" Kimber rushed to open the door while Aja and Shana threw a tarp over the nearly completed gynoid.
"That'll be twenty seven, fifty three" the pizza delivery girl smacked her chewing gum, "Two regulars with pineapple, jalapenos, olives, mushrooms, and sausage"
"I'm a little short" Kimber frowned at her wallet, "and next time, Raya, don't order for us"
"Here" Raya handed over the balance and then Kimber paid the girl, "And for the record, I like pineapples on my pizza"
"What you working on?" the delivery girl craned her neck past Raya. "Science project?"
"Something like that" Raya was blunt and then shut the door in the girl's face
"That was major rude" Kimber frowned
"And you don't know who that was from Eve" Raya countered, "If I've learned anything from being part of this group, it's that there's always something trying to hurt you or kill you or -"
"Run you off the road" Shana supplied
"That, as well" Raya nodded
"She didn't see anything" Kimber rationalized
"You got to see what I saw" Clash Montgomery barged into the office at Raymond Music
"Ooh, was it Melvis?" Pizzazz sneered, talking about the 1960s rock and roll singer.
"As if" Clash was fed up, "The Holograms were working on some sort of body"
"A dead body?" Roxy looked up from her book, The Rat in the Hat.
"No" Clash countered, "but it didn't look good, either. They had tools and stuff all over the place"
"Tools" Stormer looked concerned, "What were they doing with tools for a body?"
"Emmett Benton was working on some sort of home entertainment system" Eric Raymond began, "and if his daughters are anything like him, they might be building something else similar"
"A machine that looks like a body?" Stormer looked confused
"A robot, ducky" Jetta filled in, "you know, a mechanical man, one of those 'WestWorld' – androids"
"The cowboy movie?" Clarh frowned
"Enough" Eric Raymond held his enormous portable phone, "I've found someone who knows exactly what to do here"
Back at Starlight Mansion, at the garage, the women were finishing up on the robotic body.
"Looks pretty good" Kimber beamed
"Good thing we had some assistance from Sun Memorial Hospital's prosthesis department" Aja tightened some screws on the figure's arm, "what did you tell them again?"
"We were helping someone out" Kimber was pat with a response, "I just didn't mention that we were helping ourselves"
"Like they'd have given us these parts otherwise" Shana quipped
"I just feel like something's missing" Jerrica sighed
"Probably the face" Raya mentioned the obvious. The robotic figure was nearly complete, except the head was only half done, with white orbs for eyes, pearly dentures for teeth, but not much else in terms on the head, revealing brightly colored wires and servos instead of skin or hair.
At Raymond Music, Eric's accomplice, Techrat had arrived
"I remember the photos that that detective, Malone had shown you" he explained, "If Emmett Benton was working on something electronic, and you" he motioned to Clash, "saw a body, it could be a machine"
"Like a robot?" Stormer questioned
"Yes" Techrat nodded. Roxy moved toward him to pat him on the back, "Don't touch me!" he shouted
"What could little miss Sing A Long need with a robot?" Pizzazz wondered aloud, "another flunky? Or she could fire Rio and make the robot be her roadie" she grinned evilly, "Either way, I want it!"
"I had a slightly different idea than making some mechanical doll our hired help" Eric Raymond smiled and rubbed his hands together, "and I think I know just how to go about it" he glanced at Techrat