"What's all that noise?" Mandy opens her eyes and covers her ears but it makes no difference at all.

"I'm sorry Mandy, let me adjust that. Your hearing is a bit better than most, the background noise was up too loud for you." Jerry quips.

"Jerry? Where are you?"

"I'm a lot of places Mandy. but right now, I'm in you. I'm many tiny pieces and each one is Jerry. We all share the same mind so to speak. So if one bit of me hears you all of me hears you. That is what you were hearing, more or less. Inside you I share your thoughts. In side Tattoo I share his thoughts. But as I am me everywhere I go, Tattoo's thoughts are also in your head and your's are in his. If you listen to the background close enough and think about what you want to hear you can hear him. If you try even harder you can see what he sees, smell what he smells, even feel what he feels on his skin. If he's having sex, you can come along for the ride. It will get easier as time goes by and you get used to it."

An Image of Jerry pops up in her line of sight. "As Tattoo told me in the beginning people like to talk to something or someone, so as I did for him you also have a projector in your eye and you can see me or any other thing you ask for that way. I also absorbed your cell phone, for lack of a better term it is built in now and I'm a much smarter personal assistant than the one your phone had. One thing to know is you will now never have a second of privacy. There will be a camera on you 24/7. Everyone in the team does. Just accept it and then forget it. I control them all that mean anyone on the team can access them and the second any one does you will know it because we are all connected."

"So, I can ask you to, say, show me Tattoo?" Mandy asks with a doubting look.

"Yes Mandy, and you would see Tattoo from what ever camera angle best works for the moment and location, like this..." Jerry shrinks out and the view of Tatto comes up in her eyes.

"Oh shit, I can see him in the other room, drinking an iced coffee! That tastes good but to bitter. How do you drink it like that? Wait, I TASTED HIS COFFEE!" Mansy is in shock

"Jerry, your showing how the cameras and the background noise works now, right? Show her the transporter and the clone trick then bring her out here. You won't always get taste and smell and all that, unless you want it, but Jerry is showing off a bit, giving you the full tour."

"Yes Tattoo. So you see Mandy everyone is in touch with everyone all the time in the team. If anyone else has noticed your addition to the team they are holding off on introducing themselves until you get a bit more adjusted to your new reality. Well, most of them are. Cindy is just dying to meet you and I'm having to restrain her from popping out of a wall at you. She is the team mom and busybody..."

"I hear that Jerry!" A voice Mandy does not know is in her head.

"That sounded like Fran Drescher in the Nanny!" Mandy Bubbled.

"Yes. Tattoo has made that comment many times and also I was quoting him when I described Cindy."

"I see. So Tattoo picks on all the girls in the same loving fashion." Mandy is laughing.

"I would say yes to that, Mandy. So now let's finish your brief training. Please watch the chair." Jerry starts to assemble a body sitting in the chair.

"There's a body coming out of the chair, it looks like, no it is...IT'S ME!!??"

"Yes it is you. Feel free to look it over check all the details look for any errors you can find. This is a very important step in your training because you are going to end up depending heavily on this ability of ours."

"I can't find anything wrong she is a perfect copy of me. Why would you want to make a copy of me..." for a second Mandy's eyes went blank and then she could see again. "... sitting in a chair. WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED? I WAS LOOKING AT THE ME IN THE CHAIR AND NOW I AM THE ME SITTING IN THE CHAIR!"

Jerry laughs again. "Please stop yelling Mandy. You're fine, you just swapped bodies, Now this is the part that will get to you. I'm sure your still thinking that your real body is the one over there but watch this." The body you just left melts into the floor. "I just reabsorbed it back into us. This ability allows for two things. One is instant transport from any place you are to any other place I am. and the other I'll let Tattoo tell you about. Hang on, here you go again."

"Go? go where?..." Mandy's vision blanks out again and when she can see again she is along side Tattoo in the kitchen. "I don't like this."

Mandy's frown is still cute but not as much fun to look at, Tattoo notices. "Here, have an Iced coffee. It's sweetened. You will get used to body swapping after a while. It's hard at first, for us to let go of the idea we are raised with that each and every one of us is special and unique. It's true but it's not our bodies that make us that way. it's the data stored in our minds and the unique was we process it and collect it. We as a people are completely duplicatable."

This is doing nothing to fix Mandy's frown.

 Tattoo continued, "When I first learned of this I sat down and had a long talk with... myself. I had jerry make a clone of me and to copy me into it without erasing me out of the body I was in before and I talked to myself, making sure I was me, for about 5 hours. It is our data and collection abilities and the way we think and look at things that are who we are. Jerry can not make a person out of thin air. Just in talking to them for a bit you can tell they are a bank. He can copy us, duplicate us and move us quickly from place to place but he can not create us. That part that is ourselves is one of a kind and is what must never be lost. Bodies are just the storage devices for what is us."

Mandy drinks her coffee and says, "But..."

Tattoo cuts her off. "Please don't go into the soul argument. If it exists then is must be copyable and movable. If it's not then whatever it is we don't need it or notice it's gone. Your still you and I'm still me. If the soul did not copy then it was released the first time we were swapped, so it was released in to where ever souls go. That's a matter of beliefs and I don't have any. That's just how it is and I have been swapped hundreds of times already. This is just another payment into the price of knowing my story. Now come the good part. Your immortal. As long as even one part of Jerry is active you can be brought back from being dead endlessly. As part of the team you may be asked to risk your life. Knowing that if you die you will just come back again makes risking your life for others much easier to do."

"Ok, I think I can get a grip on this... just let me enjoy my coffee for a bit while I processed what I just learned. I'm not a real religious person but this soul thing does bug me a bit. Even non believers are indoctrinated from birth just from dealing with people that believe. We all know the basics of God and souls and such even if we don't think of them much. I do have a question for Jerry. When did I stop being Miss Mandy?"

"When you became a part of me, of us, of the team. At that point you became family so why would I still call you Miss, Mandy?" Jerry answers a question with a question.

"Good answer Jerry. I'm glad to be a part of your family." Mandy finally smiles again.