"Now if you two will wait here, I have a few things to arrange."
He darted into the lab. There were ominous sounds of moving furniture until his return.
"Come right this way!"
He led the girls back into the lab to a divided clearing with two small tables in it. He helped Darsais and Alia up onto them and then retrieved his handy-dandy energy drainer.
"I'm going to shut you two down. It'll be like going to sleep." He waved the baton in front of both of their faces systematically and looked to Sophie, "Help me move the chips," he instructed, pushing the room divider back. On the other side of it were the new bodies, both looking older and more fine-tuned than the previous models.
When the chips had been moved and placed in the correct bodies, Doc moved the old ones behind the room divider.
"You're not to tell them under any circumstances what happens to their old parts," he threatened Sophie. "Or I'll take away your wood burner."
Giving the words a moment for emphasis, he then waved the baton across the girls' faces again. They awoke. Darsais went right to work inspecting the legs, which she found were just like the ones she had asked for.
