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Uzi mindlessly scrolled on her phone, her back leant against N’s shoulder. N gently pet her head, as her fingers scrolled up the endless threads of text and images. She would occasionally show N some pictures with text captioning them, “memes” as Uzi called them.
It just felt *right* being like this. No stress, no worries. Uzi looked at N, and just as she began to move her lips to his, a loud, rhythmic banging pierced the cozy atmosphere of the purple room. They stared at eachother, waiting for it to go away. It didn’t, the banging just got more intense.
“Ugghh, this better be worth it!” Uzi said as she begrudgingly peeled herself out of N’s embrace.
*”I could be cuddling N right now, not answering some stupid person at some stupid door, stupid stupid.*”
She ripped open the front door. A tall (at least to Uzi), green-eyed worker drone stood cluelessly in front of her.
Why was Thad here?
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“Thad?!”
“Yo ‘Zi! So, uh, basically your dad said I should go and get you and N-an’-M’s for… some reason. He was acting real weird, he wouldn’t tell me anything. Is N even here?”
At that moment, N poked his head out of Uzi’s room.
“Uzi, who is i- Oh! Hey Thad!”
“Yo. Anyway, he seemed in kinda a rush, so like…”
Uzi walked out the room, with N soon following.
“Cya, Thad.” N said as he quickly pursued after.
They briskly jogged through the hustle and bustle of the WDF workers, most of them parting as they spotted N’s towering stature. They soon bumped into the familiar moustached face of Khan.
“Ah, there you two are!” He stated as he saw them, his facial hair seemingly twitching. “So, Ron basically said he saw one of those pod things crashing down, and then some yellow drone started begging to come in. I thought you, N, could help, maybe you know her? Or could at least talk to her?”
N silently nodded. Him and Uzi barged past countless workers, until they reached the fully sealed door. He attempted to smack some buttons on the glowing panel, but a message reading: “access denied” just flashed along the screen.
“Who here’s got an access doohickey?!” He basically shouted. A unknown uniformed drone quickly passed him what looked like an oversized floppy disk. Funnily enough, it actually had “access doohickey” scrawled onto the white section. All the worker drones ran to a decent distance as he bring the black rectangle down to the screen. A loading circle made a few rotations on it it, before some digital button prompts appeared on it. N cautiously pressed a button, the doors opening just a few inches. Uzi peered through the small gap, only to see a pair of spectacled golden glowing eyes staring back at her.
“Finally. Can you let me in now?”
N instantly flicked his head to the eyes.
“V?”
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The doors instantaneously opened fully. A yellow female disassembly drone stood swaying its tail slowly. Its eyes shone through a pair of circular glasses, which sat below her short silver hair. In a fraction of a second, both N and Uzi ran to her, sandwiching her between them.
“V! I-I can’t believe it’s really you!”
She fidgeted, uncomfortable from the sudden shock of an embrace. She pulled away after a few moments, staring back at the two of them.
“So, uh, you seem fine,” she began, directing to Uzi. “So I’m guessing you managed to deal with the Absolute Solver?”
N and Uzi nodded in unison, which made her momentarily smile. Uzi looked around, her eyes hollowing as she felt the entire colony’s gaze focused on the three of them.
“I, uhh, can we talk elsewhere?”
V just shrugged, before they slowly walked further in.
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They all entered Uzi’s house, before she slammed the door. V sat herself down on the armchair, crossing her legs to get comfortable. Uzi and N plonked themselves on the couch, their sides together. They had gotten over the first shock of her sudden reappearance, but they still wanted an explanation.
“So, V, do you wanna tell, like… how?” Uzi stutters, a little lost for words. V giggled slightly, before falling into a monologue.
“Basically, JcJenson cloned me and instantly sent me back here when they found out I died. Some instant messaging thing. They didn’t really realise there’s no *real* point, but here I am.”
N and Uzi sat in silence as they listened close, occasionally nodding as she explained.
“And no one else is coming? Right?” N asked, a hint of nervousness in his voice.
“Not that I know of.”
N sat back in relief as he heard this, leaning against Uzi.
“So you two are still..?”
They both nodded quickly, Uzi leaning her head against his shoulder. V grinned mischievously.
“Knew you had a thing for goth girls, N.” She said with a giggle. Both the cuddling drones began to blush, Uzi hiding her face in N’s shoulder. She eventually emerged.
“At least I didn’t oogle over the mean girl!” Uzi retorted back. “And don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about!”
V slips back into the chair, a light blush on her visor.
“Who? Lizzy? No! She’s just a friend!”
Uzi giggles slightly, realising she had strung a chord within V. As much as she wanted to keep teasing her, she resisted, not wanting to get immediately back on her bad side. She had just came back after years after all.
“W-well… is she still… *alive*?”
Uzi stifled a giggle, before both her and N nodded. V instantly became more comfortable, sinking back into the chair.
“So, I know the absolute solver’s gone from you, but is it like, still around?”
Uzi shakes her head.
“Gone. Well, at least from Copper-9. We think.”
V nodded slightly. A silence fell upon the room, but not an awkward silence. No, a comfortable silence. Uzi felt N’s hand gently yet firmly pull her closer. She let him, resting her whole body against him. N delicately kissed the top of her head. V pointed her fingers towards her mouth, making a mock-vomit sound. N blushes, but Uzi quickly retaliates by just saying “Lizzy.”
“Shut it!”
“H-hey, guys, why don’t we just calm down?”
The two female drones give N a look, but looked away after a few seconds. Uzi snuggled further to N, closing her eyes. It was already pretty late. V slowly stood up.
“Imma go wander around, I haven’t ever had a proper look around this place. I'll be back… at some point.”
“No killing anyone!” N says half-jokingly as she walks out the door. Uzi waits for her to definitely be out of earshot before speaking again.
“… I wasn’t as obvious about my crush on you was I? She is *so* obviously obsessed with Lizzy.”
“Lizzbian, you could say.” N comments, getting a gentle giggle out of Uzi. “Let her though. ‘Zi, we wouldn’t be her if she didn’t sacrifice herself. So I think she’s allowed to have a crush on her “bestie”.” Uzi nods in response, her purple hair brushing his shoulder. She wasn’t gonna stop her. Hell, it’d be nice to have the attention of being the only disassembly/worker couple in the colony lifted from her and N. And it wasn’t just that. She truly cared about V, like a sister she never had. I mean, she was still slightly surprised she was back, and was still adjusting to that fact.
She eventually looked back to N.
“Y’know, we were about to do something before Thad knocked on the door.” N thought back for a moment, suddenly gasping and smiling with glee.
“Yay!” He said, excitedly placing his hands on the back of her head. Their mouths collided, as they clumsily tangled around eachother. Uzi soon pulled away, uncontrollably laughing. N couldn’t help but chuckle softly with her contagious giggle, yet unaware what she was laughing at.
“I love you so much, idiot.” She said, still giggling.
*”He’s so damn cute. He was so excited at the prospect of a kiss! I love him I love him I love him!”*
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Uzi eventually had her head rested on N’s lap, feeling his fingers run through her hair. It was incredibly silent. She could nearly hear N’s oil flowing through his leg. N looked over at the time.
“Don’t you think V should be back by now? It’s pretty late.” N asked quietly.
“Meh, she’s fine. She’s probably just making out with her “bestie” Lizzy.” Uzi joked. They fell back into their comfortable silence, the only sound being that of their fans. N could tell Uzi was already falling asleep, so gently shook her shoulder.
“Uz’, we shouldn’t sleep on the couch. You won’t get a full night sleep and then you’ll be all grumpy in the morning.”
She just harumphed in response, not wanting to get up. She was already so comfy, she didn’t see the need in getting up, like what? She was slightly surprised as N stood up, making her head smack down from his thigh flat to the couch cushion. But she was more surprised as she got lifted up, one of N’s arms under her knees, the other on her back. She got carried to her room, delivered right to her bed. She looked over at N, her eyes begging for his embrace. He smiled seeing her so sleepy and needy, before joining her in her bed. He wrapped himself around her, finding her arms tight around him.
“I’m so gonna win tonight.” He whispered as he gently nuzzled his face into her hair.
“It is so on.”
They ended up in N’s personal favourite cuddling position. Her back to him, his chin on top of her head, his arms around her waist. Everything was perfect. They occasionally muttered “love you” or other sweet nothings to each other, savouring the moment. N’s tail wrapped loose coils around one of her legs, heart-shaped bubbles slowly oozing around in the bright yellow nanites. He closed his digital eyes, all his lights dimming. He gave Uzi one last kiss on the top of the head, before his visor read “[SLEEP MODE]”.
Uzi drearily grabbed her phone as she felt N go completely still. She flipped on the camera, pointing it towards both her and the currently asleep N. She snapped a few pictures, before closing her own eyes. She took in d red everything N she could. His slight scent of cinnamon. His occasional cute sleep-kisses. How his arms felt around her waist, and his chin on her head. How his tail tickled slightly around her leg. Everything. She admired and adored every last bit of it as she soon joined him in sleep mode, both the drones remaining motionless for the rest of the night.