MURDER DRONES (X)

by DinoDaniel2019

Summary:

Same premise as the original story, where doing the same thing with slight changes, more character stuff hopefully, adding a self insert that you could simply change to a y/n but they have a name, more OC's from other people and you can request your own. I will be continuing the series after it ended after episode 8, won't be as good obviously and not sure how long it'll last and such but here we go, I guess.

(Warning: There will be language, plot armor to a staggering degree, possibly some universe crossing, and an obsession with the Absolute Silly that is Cyn. Have fun!)

Notes:

Thanks for checking this out. Me and a friend of mine have been discussing MD for a long while and I thought, let me make a story out of the RP. This whole thing wouldn't have been done without him and I am deeply sorry for the copy and paste transcript, I did what I could folks.

Chapter 1: MURDER DRONES (X): PILOT

Earth

Me and a friend of mine were both walking along the sidewalk after an annoying day at school. People had given my friend somewhat of a hard time and I was ready to start swinging.

It hadn’t come to that and now we were staring at the ground.

D: Shadow? You okay dude?

Shadow: Yeah yeah, I’m fine, D.

Of course D and Shadow weren't our actual names but these were the nicknames we agreed on. Suddenly the ground rose up high into the sky with orange and yellow tentacles tearing apart the world.

Shadow: Woah? What’s happening?

The ground was being torn apart with some bits being raised into the air even higher up. Suddenly the two teens were surrounded by a river of lava straight from the mantle.

D: I don’t know!

A blue portal shimmered open and showed an escape from this strange destruction. We looked at each other and quickly decided to go through. We fell into some snow and something felt different for sure.

For me, I saw that I was white and black with lines connecting me. I was some type of robot with green lights. A jacket on my body with a T-shirt under it. I had some blue pants going along with my outfit and my shoes were red. All the colors were very dull compared to what they would have been on Earth, if this was still Earth. My brown hair shook around in the cold and harsh wind.

Shadow however got himself up and moved his black hair about before seeing his cyan lights on his face and hands with the same white and black creases I had. His clothes were that of an all black emo style look. His shoes, his pants, his motorcycle jacket, and his shirt.

We both looked around and braced against the cold. We clearly weren’t happy with what was going on.

D and Shadow: What is this place?

Shadow: Jesus, it’s so cold. What happened? This is Earth, right?

D: I don’t know. Why are we robots now? We should find shelter.

I was trying to keep my mind sane after this strange new circumstance.

D: Let’s try that building.

I pointed my hand out toward an apartment complex that was tilted and broken.

Shadow: The broken one?

Daniel: Yeah, the broken one.

Shadow: Whatever.

Shadow sighed and slumped his shoulders before we climbed up the building. It was somewhat difficult. A piece of concrete fell and hit Shadow’s face.

Shadow: Ow, watch it!

D: My bad, dude.I told him before seeing a silver glint from the sky where I saw many stars and a giant ringed planet.

D: Is that Saturn?

Shadow: It looks similar to it but why is it blinding white?

D: And what’s up with the silver thing?

Shadow: Silver thing?

A missile suddenly whizzed past us and right through the apartment window and exploded on the other side. We both were speechless and gripped onto the wall for dear life. We ducked our heads down out of fear.

That’s when the one who fired at us landed. It was a female, a robot like us. She had five yellow things on her head and yellow eyes shaped into a big X. Her hair was silver with pigtails, her clothing was black except for the yellow armband in her arm, her sleeves rolled up. She had an employee's suit with the words JCJenson in Spaceeeee on it. She had slender legs keeping her upright and not to mention the long and pointed tail with a yellow syringe or the huge wings she had from her back.

We both looked up and she smiled down on us with a face that screamed, ‘ready to die?’ plastered onto it. We both screamed and let go of the building and fell into the snow below us. We could hear the robot above us laughing as she glided down, her hands switching to blades.

D: Run!

The killer robot laughed and dived down.

J: I love it when they run.

She smiled, her blades scraping into the snow as she got closer.

Shadow: Hey look, another robot.

Shadow had tricked the robot lady who turned and didn’t see another robot and then she fired a missile toward us sending us flying back.

She landed down and walked closer toward us and we kept trying to back away before we backed away into a car. The robot held her gun up toward us and we froze. Shadow then grabbed a metal pipe and slammed it onto the gun and then he slammed it into her surprised face, knocking her out cold.

D: Nice. I nodded at him.

Shadow: Phew. Okay, where to now?

D: That bunker looking area seems as good as any.

I nodded at the gray bunker with a huge door keeping it shut.

Shadow: Better than being out here. He agreed and we knocked on the bunker door. A little window slid open and a robot with white eyes stared at us.

Roy: What are you teenagers doing outside? You know it’s not safe.

He didn’t seem mad or even worried, he did seem anxious to get back to what he was doing though.

D: Umm, yeah. We decided to come outside and see what everything was about. It’s scary. Haha.

Roy: Well come on in then!

The doors opened and we quickly hurried in to see a stack of cards that was being played with. It seemed like he was on a hot streak.

Braxton: Hey, who are these two?”

Roy: I don’t have a clue who these worker drones are but they were outside. I’m sure it was nothing weird and unexplainable.” He laughed.

Braxton: Yeah, well come on, I’ve tried to peek at your cards for the last five minutes.”

With that we were moved away past the other bunker doors.

Shadow: Well that was easy.

We looked at the vacant hallways before going down one. They had lockers on the wall, we both turned to each other.

Shadow: They still have school here?

D: Can’t be that bad. Right?” We heard a bell ring and some students, looking like us with different outfits and colors on their visors. Each of them were chatting about their day, each in cluster groups except for one.

A girl worker drone with purple hair and purple eyes, a beanie on her head, and edgy teen clothing. I looked at her with curiosity, she had a blueprint in her hand with what looked to be some gun. Strangely enough I understood the blueprints.

D: Let’s talk with her.

Shadow: Yeah, sure. Together we walked over to the girl.

She was getting stuff from her locker but was struggling slightly as her locker was on the top, where she couldn’t reach.

D: Hey.

Uzi: Hey, back away, I don’t need your help!

She snapped at us.

D: We weren’t going to. I noticed the blueprint you made, a railgun?

Uzi: Umm yeah, I’m tired of being cooped up in here when I could be taking down the Murder Drones.”

She laughed maliciously.

Shadow: So those were the flying drones?

Uzi: We’ll duh. Are you two new to the colony? I haven’t seen you two before.

D: Yeah, we’re new.

She narrowed her eyes on us and then turned back to grabbing her stuff.

Shadow: Is there some type of problem with us?

Uzi: No. Just weird seeing new faces. Why are you two even talking to me?

D: Well I was gonna ask if I could help you build the railgun.

Uzi: Oh. You know what, screw calculus! Let’s build this thing!

She cackled like a psychopath, always a good sign.

Shadow: Wait, what’s your name? You didn’t tell us.

Uzi: Oh, it’s Uzi. And what are your two morons' names?

D: I’m D.

Uzi: Just D?

D: Yep.

Shadow: And I’m Shadow.

Uzi: Strange name…

Shadow: Yeah, I know.

He rolled his eyes sarcastically.

We went into Uzi’s home and went into her room which was very dark and had lots of purple lights and colors. She pulled out some tools and together me and her worked on building the railgun as Shadow spinned in her gaming chair. It didn’t take long for us to finish.

Uzi: Hahaha! Yes, finally I can take down those Murder Drones and earn my dad’s respect!

Shadow: So, uhh, weird question but where do we sleep?

I looked at him. It wasn’t the best question but it needed to be asked. He looked back at me and then turned.

Uzi: Right. Umm we have two guest rooms off to the left. You two can sleep in there.

D: Convenient.

We went into the rooms and soon just sat on the beds for a bit as Uzi stayed up by herself doing who knows what.

Shadow: Dude. What happened to our old world? Our families and friends are just gone?

D: Seems that way. It does suck but we can’t change anything. All we can do now is just help Uzi.

Shadow: You're awfully calm.

D: I temporarily turned my emotions off. I would be a mess if I didn’t.

I laughed like a psycho, I wasn’t doing well mentally.

Shadow: Oh, that’s interesting. Night, dude.

D: Yeah, night.

The two of us went into sleep mode as flashes of the day's events went off in our minds. That was until we finally got up and it was all quiet inside the house.

D: Morning?

Shadow: Morning. If it is morning. Should we wake Uzi up?

D: If she isn’t already then sure.

We walked over to Uzi’s room and knocked on the door. No response. We knocked again and hear a pillow thump against the door.

Uzi: Bite me!

Shadow: Uzi, it’s us.

Uzi: Oh, sorry.

The door slid open and a tired Uzi was sitting in her gaming chair, rolling around.

Uzi: Thought you were my dad.

Shadow: Did you sleep in that chair all night?

Uzi: Of course not.

D: So is school going on today?

Uzi: Yeah, but it’ll be great. I set up a presentation for the class to also show off my Sick as Hell railgun!

D: Cool. I guess we should go then?

Uzi: Yeah.

She grabbed the railgun and together we walked into class. Most of the students didn’t even pay attention to us. Nor did the teacher who looked like he could have cared less about what was going on. As we took our seats we watched the presentation begin.

BOOTING UP//
EXPOSITION //

Uzi: We are Worker Drones. Autonomous robots helping humans mine exoplanets for our interstellar parent company, JCJenson IN SPAAAAACCCEE!!!! Yeah, we were mistreated in the name of Windex. But it's not like we revolted and killed all humans or anything, mostly because they handled that just fine all by themselves.

As she speaks, the planet core collapses and blows up a good majority of Copper 9. Afterwards, a Worker Drone touches a frozen human skeleton, which falls over and shatters.

Uzi: With biological life wiped from the planet, we found it pretty easy to pick up where they left off. We finally had a future, all to ourselves.

The Landing Pod crashes into the city.

Uzi: Unfortunately, our parent company didn't exactly love the concept of runaway AI...

The Disassembly Drones begin to emerge from the pod. One of them throws the head of a dead drone, laughs, and destroys the city with the other drones.

This was what Uzi had been working on the whole time last night while we went to sleep. It was well put together. A very interesting presentation.

Uzi: But what have our parents done for the past forever while those things build a spire of corpses?! Hide under the ice behind three stupid doors?! It's like we're waiting for an inciting incident! Anyway, that's why my project is this sick-as-hell Railgun!

D: That explains that.

Shadow: The railgun turned out well.

D: We know, haha.

Her, and now our, classmates panicked.

Riley: Oh, so not the vibe!

Uzi: Easy, morons. It doesn't work... yet! It doesn't work yet. Who said it doesn't work, maybe it does!

Uzi flicks the switch and laughs evilly.

Teacher: (Rolls his eyes and sighs in disinterest) Uzi, the homework was a word problem about buying watermelons.

Uzi: Oh, and this magnetically amplified photon converger doesn't count?

Teacher: ...No. Plus, repressed emotional baggage was only worth two points on the rubric. And is it supposed to be that color?

D: Get down!

Uzi's railgun turns red and blasts the classroom causing multiple students to gain slight injuries, clouded faces, or they ducked down like me and Shadow. The Teacher was unfazed by it all and simply released the class.

After that, Uzi and us were in the sick bay.

Lizzy: Ew, it didn't kill her! Oh my god, it's so bad!

She and her friend leave.

Uzi: Ugh…

D: At least we know the railgun is very effective.

Shadow: He’s right. We could have all blown up instead. Plus, you didn’t get hurt which is a bonus.

Uzi: Thanks guys.

Muttering was heard outside the room before Thad walked in while pointing at another worker drone.

Thad: Classic toxic masculinity, Chad! That's never gonna end up problematic... Oh wow, Uzi? I heard you, uh-

Uzi: I'm an angsty teen, Thad. Bite me! Also, how do you know my name? People willingly talk to you.

D: What’s up dude!

I give him a fist bump while Shadow rolls his eyes as I just proved Uzi’s statement. Thad chuckled lightly.

Thad: Well, I'd say everyone knows Khan's daughter, but, uh... Then you might blow the other half of your face off.

Uzi: Crippling daddy issues, hilarious... What are you in for? Testosterone too hard?

Thad: That can happen? Awesome. Hey, those bandages look pretty badass!

Uzi: Oh... Uh, ew. Gross, I hate that you said that.

Thad: So, what's the, uh…

D and Uzi: Sick-as-hell railgun?!

Uzi: Sci-Fi nonsense, that super works! I'm sneaking to the Murder Drone lair tonight to get the last spare part I need to save the world with it and earn my dad's respect and stuff, but mostly the world part.

Thad: Oh, but doesn't your dad make awesome doors so we don't have to, uh... Do that scary sounding emotionally repressed stuff you just said?

Uzi angrily points railgun into his cheek: NO MORE FEEDBACK ON MY REPRESSION TODAY!!

Thad: Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't think…

Uzi leaves: BITE ME!

She comes back to clarify her mood

Uzi: I'm not mad at you by the way, just generally hormonal!

She waves and leaves and then me and Shadow follow along saying buy to Thad. We went inside and waited out the time for nightfall where we could safely sneak outside.

It's now 3 in the morning and Uzi smacks her face to turn the alarm clock off and prepares to sneak out of the house. She grabs her railgun, straightens her hat, and quietly steals her father's door key to swipe and get a door open. Just when she is about to leave.

Me and Shadow had been playing a game of Uno the whole time before Uzi opened the door. Her railgun was laid over her shoulders as she made a cool pose.

Uzi cackled: What are you two waiting for? Let’s go!

We nodded and followed her out. I had a lingering question on my mind however.

D: Uzi, what’s going on with you and your dad?

Uzi turned around and snapped at me: No talking about me and my dads issues. Now let’s just get outside and…

She had the door slide upward.

Uzi: Oh, Robo-Jesus!

Khan: And where might you be off to?

Uzi: Umm... Sneaking out to make out with my boyfriend that I definitely have?

Khan laughs: Seriously, though.

Uzi: Okay, okay, you caught me! I need to measure... the exterior hydraulic mechanisms of Door One. Because that's... the project I'm working on for school? A big old door! Just like what my old man built!

Her father clearly wasn’t buying this.

Uzi: I want to join the WDF and hide behind the doors like cowards while playing cards and stuff...

Khan chuckles: Well, we don't just play cards...

Another door opens up behind Khan revealing his buddies playing cards.

Braxton: Khan! Can you grab a fresh pack? We literally only play cards so much that the numbers have faded. Oh, hey Uzi!

Me and Shadow laugh at the convenient timing.

Uzi chuckles, embarrassed slightly.

Khan laughs and closes the door: Well when you build doors so good-

He goes back to hug the door like a dog owner petting his four-legged friend.

Khan: Good door, good door...

Me and Shadow look at each other, understanding why Uzi and her dad aren’t on good terms. This was kinda strange for a parent.

He turns his attention back to Uzi: There's no need to fight! Uzi, this is great news! Here! The wrench that I used to tighten bolts on my first door prototypes, and to put your mother out of her misery when the Murder Drones got to her with that nanite acid... I want you to have it!

He hands Uzi the wrench.

Shadow whispers: Damn, that sucks.

Uzi: Neat. Therapy's fun!

Khan opens the door: Guys! My daughter is into doors!

The fellow drones start cheering as another door opens, letting in snow and a cold breeze, much to their chagrin as their cards go flying.

Khan: She's gonna be outside for a bit to examine the exterior of Door One with these two workers! Your door-specific destiny awaits!

Uzi: Uhh... Wow, okay! I'm just gonna leave then, cause this worked so weirdly well. Uh, go doors!

The door closes again and we stand outside in the cold. Shadow began to shiver.

Shadow: Why does it have to be so cold?

D: Turn your temperature settings off. It’s what I did.

Shadow: Of course you did.

Khan was tearing up inside: They grow up so fast!

He takes off his fake mustache.

Uzi ventures out into the arctic wasteland and makes her way to the Corpse House with us.

Shadow: Creepy…

Uzi comes across a downed Drone pod and forages around for the component she needs when she hears a noise behind her. A winged drone swoops in, takes the head of a drone, and crushes it. They notice Uzi and us hiding behind some machinery, and the two engage in a fight.

D: Oh crap! Careful guys!

Uzi braces her railgun, but the drone lands so hard it gets knocked out of her hands. Uzi jumps back and strikes a pose.

Uzi: Whoa, and they said pirating all that anime was useless…

The drone stabs Uzi's hand with his tail, leaving a hole, and flings her to the side. Uzi quickly grabs her railgun as the drone scans around for her.

Uzi: Bite me!

Uzi fires the railgun, destroying the drone's head. The railgun works on recharging as the drone's body falls to the ground.

D: Oh, that works too.

Shadow: Holy shit that was awesome!

Uzi: Holy hell! Suck on that, Dad!

Suddenly, the drone's head regenerates. Uzi quickly slaps them with a dismembered drone arm she found, which does nothing, then their eyes open.

N: ...Did you just slap me with that arm?

Uzi: Holy crap, it talks.

D: Oh no…

N: Yeah... Sorry, it's just my, uh, head kind of hurts. Hey, are you theee new to our squad? You're a all little, uhh...

He has an Error in his sensors

N: Short, for a Disassembly Drone. I'm Serial Designation N, nice to meet you. I'm kind of the leader of the squad in this city. That's not true, everyone tells me I'm useless and terrible. Wait, I'm not supposed to tell you that part! Biscuits!

He lets out a big sigh.

N: Well, honesty is the best policy.

Shadow: Okay, so he’s pretty nice, I guess.

D: Let’s hope he stays that way.

N laughs: I also can't seem to remember the past 3 hours of my life, but I'm sure that'll sort itself out.

Uzi: Uh huh... I, uh, have to, go.

She moved the arm in hand making it do a pointing right motion. She goes to leave, but forgets about the painful hole in her damaged hand.

N: Stuck yourself? Just pop it in your mouth. Our saliva neutralizes the nanites, otherwise I'd be constantly disassembling myself.

He holds up a syringe with nanite acid to not stab himself with it.

D: I don’t think he’s okay…

Shadow: Maybe not.

Uzi: And by our saliva, you mean…

Uzi & N: Disassembly Drone?

Uzi: Right. Hey, let's go in that landing pod over there!

N: Sure! I love doing anything!

Uzi puts her hand in N's mouth making us all feel weirded out.

N: Sweet! Uh, I'm open to new things, I guess.

Shadow: Yuck

Uzi: We are never talking about this.

N: Talking about what? Consider it, uh... Repressed!

Uzi: ...Uh, you mentioned other members of your squad? Are they coming back soon?

N: Oh, yeah. Two others. They're out hunting for a bit but you'll love them. First, there's V.

N shows off a clip from his visor showing V. And like the other murder drone she was skinny and tall with dangerous weaponry. Her hair was styled more like a bob cut. The same five yellow dots rested on her head much like N’s. The only difference between them all were slight facial features and N’s hat.

In N’s visor was V tearing a drone's entrails out.

Grant: No, No! Please don't feed me my own entrails in front of my family!

N was watching V feed Grant his own entrails in front of his family and then kill him.

V’s crazed eye twitches: ...And yet, I still feel nothing.

N: So, V, uh, I heard this planet-wide toxic death storm is supposed to be especially inhospitable tonight-

V: Oh God, who are you?!

V was surprised N was even there and she took off with a sonic boom.

N: No worries, I'm N! But a whole letter is a lot to remember!

He laughing nervously and then N stopped projecting V to us through his mind.

Shadow: Why were her clothes so short by her legs?

D: I don’t know, it’s not like we need to keep warm. Probably just a style. Your not attracted to the flying death machine are you?

Shadow: What no! I admit she’s hot but I’m not trying to date her.

D: Just seeing.

N: So obviously, a lot of mutual respect there. But secretly, I actually kind of have a crush on her... You can't tell her, okay?!

Uzi zips her mouth shut in a little motion and N sighs at that. Little did he know that we weren’t planning on sticking around to find V.

Then there's J, our leader.

N had portrayed J on his visor. J had N pinned to the ground.

J: N, you're worthless, and terrible,

N was struggling to breathe: Thank you…

J: And if the company allowed it, I would straight up kill you myself!

His visor turned back to his regular go lucky face.

N: J's awesome.

D: N, are you okay?

N: Yeah, why do you ask?

He was smiling like there was no care in the world. Shadow made a circle motion around his head knowing that we knew N was pretty crazy.

N: Hey, let me give you the tour! Outside are the corpse... wall... thingies. In here are the buttons!

He begins pressing the buttons making little beeping noises as he does so.

Uzi: This... isn't just a landing pod... This is a spaceship! This could get us off the planet!

N: More of a one-use missile. They never taught us how to land.

Uzi: No, I, uh, uh, the worker drones, we could work with them to fix this! Instead of all the murder! ...Which, uh, why are we doing that again...?

N: Other than ingesting their WARM, SWEET oil to avoid overheating and dying? I guess I just want to be useful. I was given a job and I always want to try my best.

Uzi: And look at all the respect it's gotten you, N. You really think the company isn't going to dispose of you once all the workers are dead?

N: Oh my, you sure are rebellious! It's kind of exciting. But, not as fun as, uh, following the rules…

N was cut off by the sound of footsteps. Time for us to take our leave. Shadow waved by with some hesitation and then we left. N was left confused.

N: Hey, they're back! You-

J: Idiot, get out here!

Uzi and us retreated from the Corpse House as quickly as possible with the railgun.

V laughs: Yo, we got a worker out there I kind of want to practice balloon animal shapes with. ...What happened here?

J: Synergistic Liability here must have tripped and knocked himself offline.

J slaps N with a huge amount of force: Moron bot, hello?

She snaps her fingers as N goes through a system reboot. He recovers all the filled in blanks of the last three hours of his life such as flying around, tinkering with barely functioning light bulbs and dead worker heads, and then all the stuff with Uzi and us.

Uzi on recording: You really think the company isn't going to dispose of you once all the workers are dead? Bite me!

YOU'RE DEAD
[IDIOT]

The reboot finishes soon after.

N: Ohhhh...

His scanners indicate Uzi's and our footprints in the snow and he made a very upset face before turning back to V and J.

N: Ohhhh! You know, I-I left an-an extremely dangerous weap- excuse outside...!

He flees via flight as V holds up a flag that says "Literally So Insanely Suspicious". N goes off in pursuit of Uzi, who is fleeing back to the colony.)

Meanwhile, during the card game taking place inside. We overheard who was winning.

D: Hey, Todd’s winning.

Shadow: Oh cool.

Uzi: Quiet you two, we have to get in.

She began to smack key against the door controls outside.

Todd: Haha, I am out, boys.

Drone: Oh, gosh darn it…

Braxton: Wait until my loving wife and kids hear about this!

The door opens, letting in the cold and us three, much to their annoyance.

Uzi: Bite me! Close it, close it!

Uzi tries to swipe the card to close the door, but N has already stuck his claw in between. He pried the door open slightly.

Shadow: Oh shit…

N: Hey, fellas. Oh, deal me in, I love rummy. Wait, no, I'm going to murder everyone... Rain check!

He swings his acidic tail at the door scanner, breaking it and the key. The door opens up, as do other doors. Realizing their lives are on the line, Uzi and the other drones, minus Todd, run off.

Todd: Um, actually, it's gin rummy. So-

N impales him against a wall and slices his head off. He begins firing at the rest, shooting Makarov's head off and pouncin the other drone. Meanwhile, Braxton catches up with Uzi. Shadow was looking in horror and then sped up while I didn’t try to even look back.

Braxton: Hey, Uzi! I just realized no one's said my name out loud before, so I'm just letting you know I'm-
N slices him in two, then flies off in pursuit of Uzi and us. Uzi quickly recharges her railgun and turns back to fire, but sees that N is gone. Khan appears.

Khan: Pretty nice hydraulics, huh?

He pauses as he sees all the chaos he missed.

Khan: ...What-What have you done?

D: Mr. Doorman, we can explain, just—agh!

We don’t reply fast enough as N swoops in, smacks me with his wings and then stares at Shadow and Uzi. Before she could explain herself, N swoops in. Uzi prepares for a fight.

Uzi: This time, I won't miss!

N chuckles: I'm sorry. I really enjoyed our time together, but I can't have you shooting V with that thing.

Uzi: Bite me! Dad, get down!

Khan: Uzi, you Lead a murder drone here?! My beautiful doors!

Shadow: Listen to her old man or else we’re all gonna die!

Uzi: Now is so not the time! I messed up, in the same way I'm about to fix it! Move, dad!

N pins her to a wall and her railgun falls at Khan's feet. Shadow goes to grab the railgun but N slaps him back into the wall next to me.

Uzi was straining: Dad... Point and shoot... Trust me...!

Khan, trembling with fear, slowly backs off instead of helping his only child.

Uzi was deeply heartbroken: Dad...?

In an act of cowardice and lack of proper parenting, Khan closes the door, leaving Uzi broken. Not just brokenhearted, but broken to the point where she shuts down. No grief over being left in the lurch by her own father. No attempts to fight back N. Nothing. She just goes limp...emotionally damaged…

Shadow: Damn…

We couldn’t move to assist her as our systems were accommodating the whole being slammed into the wall thing.

The room turns red and alarms blare as N regains his sanity, looking with despair over what he has done. At this moment J and V show up. He flings Uzi toward us before they notice.

J: Whoa, N! Am I dreaming, or did you do something not useless, for once?

V: I've been trying to get past those doors for months. Nice work, N.

N: ...You... Me... Name... Remember...?

V: These ventilation shafts can easily get us around this last door. Lowest body count eats a missile!

She flies upwards into the vents to commit a murder spree.

J: Way to go, stud. The company's gonna love this. With this colony wiped, we'll make top team this quarter, for sure. You know what that means... Branded pens!

She holds up a JCJenson brand pen, to N's joy. She tosses it to him and prepares to fly off and catch up with V.

D: That’s just messed up.

Shadow: Shhh!

N: ...Uh, you know, not that I can't wait to keep murdering all these, uh, maybe not-so-actually different from us Worker Drones, but, just out of curiosity, do we actually, uh, know what the company plans to do with us afterwards...?

Uzi begins to wake up and we quickly move toward her out of concern, recovered fully now. She rolls her eyes as we hug her before she backs away and we watch the conversation continue.

J: Excuse me...?

N: Okay, so, a worker earlier might have suggested that they could fix up our landing pod to, uh, escape the planet and stuff, which, whoa, hey, that's against the rules! But, it is kind of making me question why our pods were only one way in the first place. Cause, you know, I get the feeling the company doesn't actually love robots, and like we might be robots. I've made a terrible mistake. It's cool how immediately I could tell.

J: Hmm... No way, buddy. Questioning the company? You just finally gave me the excuse I needed.

J injects N with a virus clip right into his chest on his company suit.

J: Worker drones are corrupted, N. That's why the company sent us. I hate to see you corrupted as well.

N while infected and glitching: Thanks, J... Always looking out for me... You're awesome...

He rolls onto his back nearly dead now.

J: Heh.

She flies upward to catch up with V and hunt down more drones, not wanting to lose the bet or disobey the company.

Uzi goes to get her railgun which is still recharging. She tries to get up to the vent and even without help we can’t get up there.

N kept glitching: Ah, biscuits. I'm sorry. I ruined your card game, then made you have an awkward moment with your dad.

Uzi: And I made you rebel like an angsty teen, which got you killed. Though, you also tried to kill me, so morality calls this a draw. Ugh... For the record, that was the lamest heel-face turn in history. Was that supposed to be you switching sides?

N: Being rebellious is a lot harder than it looks. Thanks for showing me the ropes.

Uzi: Nuh-uh, no bonding thing. You just killed a bunch of people, idiot.

N: That's super fair... I screwed up…

He sighs deeply in shame.

D: But you can fix it.

Uzi: Ugggh...! In the same way you're about to fix it?

She shows the wrench to N making him happy.

N: Hahaha! I love doing anything!

We take the virus off and then we head toward where J and V were murdering.

Thad gets flung backwards. Lizzy and Doll rush to help him as J arrives.

Khan: So... They found our evacuation spot. But, if we build a quick door…

Thad gets up and spits out some oil before holding his pipe up for battle, a battle he would lose.

Thad: Are you kidding me?! You're the WDF, right? Defend!

Khan and his friends back off in more cowardice. They signed up for doors to be built and to play cards, fighting Murder Drones wasn’t in the job description or even possible for them after they saw their friends get cut down.

Thad: For real?

V arrives and impales Thad. Just as she's about to kill him though we arrive to save the day.

Uzi: Hey!

V: Huh?

Uzi: Put that conventionally attractive male down!

N waves before Uzi nudges him. Uzi has her railgun over her shoulder while me and Shadow are standing there with raised fists.

N: Oh! Uh, J, you're sometimes kind of mean to me, and I wish you weren't. Just some constructive criticism.

Uzi: Nice.

They fist bump and smile at one another. Me and Shadow both do a fist bump and began to take an opponent to handle.

J: Noted, traitor. We'll circle back after I right-size your existence!

Uzi to N: Okay, which one do you want?

N: J, please.

Uzi: Too bad. Good luck.

The battle commenced. Uzi flings her pen at J's hair and runs off as I tackle her down, not for long though as she kicks me off, leaving N and Shadow to deal with V.

J manages to knock Uzi down and yanks the pen out of her hair. She was hissing in pain and leaking a yellow substance, her nanite acid.

J: Damn the well-made quality assured durability of JCJensen's products! Huh?

Uzi gets back up and kicks J in her face. I follow it up with another kick sending her reeling back in more annoyance than anything.

Meanwhile, N and Shadow were fighting V. He tries firing from his gatling gun, but hearts shoot out instead.

Shadow: Really man?!

Shadow dodges an incoming missile that barely misses him and creates an explosion instead.

N: Ah! My mind's in a weird place! Don't read into this!

Another rocket lands near him and explodes, N screams out and tries to fly away. V follows with Shadow holding onto her legs.

J gets up and knocks Uzi out while N and V are swordfighting. N sees J walk up to Uzi.

N: UZI! I'm so, so sorry. Have fun repressing this!

He... licks V's sword. Nasty…

Shadow: Bro?

V: EW! What the hell?!

Shadow then holds on for dear life as V throws him into the air before she kicks his back and then stabs a sword through his chest. Shadow coughs oil onto V’s face, temporarily blocking her vision and allowing him to slam his head into hers making her fall down and him using her as a brace. N was gliding down fast towards Uzi.

J: You've got a lot of cuts for a barely sentient toaster. I've had prey fight fact before, but your edgy spirit is just... so... painful...?!

She looks down. Her leg has been stabbed by her own tail.

GAH! FOURTH! QUARTER! PROFITS! MOTHER OF COMPANY LEADERSHIP RETREATS!

D: Shut up with that!

I trip her on a piece of rubble and fall over. Uzi points her railgun at her face.

Uzi: One more buzzword and I'll do it!

J: ...Equity partnersh-

Uzi pulls the trigger. In the end of it all, J's entire top half has been obliterated. Uzi spits on the corpse orr what's left of it to show who's the baddest. As the other drone's come out of hiding to cheer for her, she falls over tiredly. N picks her up onto his shoulders.

D: Shame, could have kept her around.

Shadow: Great, were you interested in her?

D: No, she just seemed like she could have been redeemed. Even if she did try to kill us.

Thad: Holy hell, Uzi, that was insane! And you too, uh…

N: Huh? Oh! N! I'm an angsty rebellious disassembly drone, now.

Thad: Oh and you two, thanks for helping them out.

Shadow: It was our pleasure, dude.

Shadow took a bow and smiled.

They hear someone clearing their throat. It's Khan. Uzi throws her wrench back at his feet, digital tears welled up in her eyes at the sight of him.

Uzi: I brought the murder drones here accidentally. You chose to leave me for dead instead of just freaking believing in me! That's not even an edgy teen hyperbole like when I said it last week!

Khan wanted to speak but couldn’t find the words. He raised his hand up before moving it back down.. Uzi, near tears, smacks herself to regain composure.

Uzi: I'll save you the trouble dad. I banish myself!

Khan tries to speak against this, but can't find the words.

Uzi: Let's go, N. Everyone here can bite me!

N grabs V and they begin to leave.

N: Nice to meet you, Mr. Uzi!

D: Bye guys.

I wave and follow the three out with Shadow.

Uzi smacks N for being too nice: Shut it.

N takes off with Uzi and V while me and Shadow take the long way around. Khan has a sip from his mug in disappointment. His #1 DAD mug, the audacity is criminal. Nothing could be further from the truth…

As we were walking past Uzi’s home I suddenly stopped and twitched slightly. A green triangle with arrows flashed on my right eye.

Shadow turned back with a raised brow. I waved him off, it was probably nothing. We kept along and made it to the ship where Uzi was on top of a car smiling and giggling like a maniac.

Meanwhile, N is lodged inside the Corpse House.

N: I'd join you if the sun didn't kill me. Hope you're having important character growth or something, though!

Uzi: Just can't wait to murder all humans. Classic robot stuff. I hope they're sitting pretty there on Earth, because we're coming for them...!

She laughs maniacally, her sanity completely vanished, as the zoom out reveals three Drone pods making their way down to Copper 9.

D: Wait? So this isn’t Earth?

Shadow: It would explain the bright Saturn planet thing.

Uzi: This is Copper 9 guys and it’s going to our base of operations against the humans. Haha!

D: Haha, yeah, that’s fun. Not sure I’m comfortable with murdering humans though.

I mutter the last part.

Shadow: Yeah, me neither…

We both went inside the corpse house with N and went into a sleep mode.

Chapter 2: MURDER DRONES (X): Heartbeat

Summary:

With being self-banished, the gang hear about a slew of violent killings in the colony so they go to investigate and end up finding a very big and monstrous creature.

Notes:

Hears EP 2 fellas. Hope you enjoy this one. I'm trying my best, please leave reviews, it really would help.

The sound of rainfall and thunder pounds outside…

James, a shadowy figure that is a human who controls the manor: We got to curb her trips to the dump.

N is shown wearing a suit and holding a platter, like a servant. He has a very blank expression put onto his face as he watches James.

James: And where is she getting the hair to play dress-up with them? Creepy…

James tosses his glass onto the tray, which N catches without dropping any dishes and walks off without issue as he fixes them on the go. He stops to make a view out of a window as the cacophonous storm continues raging. Continuing his walk, he looks around some more as he collides with V, wearing a maid's outfit. The collision causes N to drop the platter and the dishes fall to the floor.

N: OH! I'm so sorry!

V: I-It's okay! I wasn't looking.

Their hands touch and a spark emits. They blush and stare in curiosity as N begins to speak, but is kicked to the side by J.

J: Move it, moro-

Her voice quickly switches to a cutesy and polite tone as a black figure with a notable bow in her hair, she was nearly the size of them, only being slightly taller.

J: Hi, Tessa! ...Oh, no. Another one?

A new drone reveals herself from behind Tessa. She makes eye contact with N as everything suddenly goes dark…

N wakes up from his rest and falls to the ground with a yell. This also wakes up Shadow who was sound asleep. He looked at N in concern.

Shadow: You okay, dude?

N nodded and picked himself up making the snow fall off him.

Uzi: N, I found something in here!

Inside the Corpse House, Uzi is inspecting her new finding: a symbol consisting of a skull with a cap and wings. Uzi stares at her reflection in a mirror, which breaks.

I was checking out the screens and wires to see what I could do for the landing craft. The short answer was nothing. Everything really was broken and burned up with blunt force entry.

V: That's weird and concerning.

Uzi: Bite me! This is probably you weirdo's fault!

V: I've never seen that symbol before. Wanna do an autopsy to find out?

D: Oh shush you.

I felt my own face, I had the symbol she had but it would be best to not start a panic over it. We watched come on down with Shadow via ladder.

N: What'd you find?

Uzi: Did you know that was a pilot hat?

N: I was the pilot? That's awesome! I crashed and ruined everything... Spaceship Pilot: Origin Story.

Shadow: Not the best origin story, I also don’t see your murderous friend here complaining about the bad landing either.

V hisses, then calms herself by blowing bubbles out of a bubble blower.

N: ...Speaking of piloting to Earth, we sure "murder all humans" is, uh, morality?

D: N does have a point.

Uzi: The humans sent you without a communication relay and reformatted your memories to soup.

None of the two responses or made a rebuttal to this.

Uzi: Covering their tracks means their past negotiating. Not like they tried negotiating with my mom…

V: Or you missed the negotiations! The humans programmed us to solve a problem. Where's proof of your backstory? The one where your kind's so conveniently innocent?

V chuckles darkly with an outstretched blade, she was close to escaping the chains, she pulled at them easily making me thing that she could snap them if she really wanted too, but why didn’t she snap free?

N, not wanting another fight to break out, gently pulls Uzi out of the way.

N: J was getting orders from someone. If not the company through that relay, then, uh, who? And how?

Uzi pouts: Quit complicating my murder plan.

N tries to comfort her by gently patting her on the head, but Uzi brushes his hand away.

Back at Uzi's colony, two drones are staring at the large hole that N made in the roof.

Tim: Yeah, just fix her up because, whoops, pretty big security risk in hindsight. Uh, you got this, uh, Ladderbot 5000.

His name was actually Frank and he was really not feeling the motivation for anything at the moment.

Frank: Ugh... Please, just leave the lights-

The lights go off. He makes a heavy sigh and begins to try and work. Frank digs his flashlight out and tries to think of a way to get up there when he hears a clattering sound. He looks around in fear and suspicion when he notices something... fleshy. He goes to investigate, only for a strange spider-like heart device to reveal itself. His flashlight gets shot out of his hand as The Absolute Solver turns the colors of the room yellow and red before finally murdering him, his screams echoing out loudly but no one could hear.

It's Parent-Teacher Conference Day AKA "That explains a lot!" at Uzi's school. Khan sits down across from the teacher. He looks a little nervous about this.

Teacher: Mr. Doorman, your daughter has been, uh... absent.

Khan: Yes, on that "kill all humans" kick, like when I was younger. Grounded herself and all that.

Teacher: Speaking on her behavior-

Khan: Of course, of course, precocious, popular, supernatural understanding of doors. Takes after her old man.

Teacher plays a few clips through his visor screen to focus Khan on what his daughter had been up to.

Teacher: Uzi, please sit normal.

Uzi: Bite me!

Teacher sighs in annoyance: Uzi, give Braden back his sentience.

Uzi as Braden: Bite me- her! I started it, and also, I'm dumb.

Her head lights ablaze. And it’s also been staying that way for the foreseeable future.

Teacher: Uzi, you have to partner up.

Uzi: Several people wanted to, for the record.

Lizzy: No, we didn't. You freak us out.

Uzi while inside a trashcan: But mostly, bite me!

Teacher’s visor returns to normal. He gave Khan a deadpan look.

Teacher: Yeah, she has trouble fitting in. We think there might be something damaged with her programming. How is she at home?

Khan: Uh... Sorry? I mean, she's a little herself, but damaged? I... maybe haven't spent much time…

Teacher: Mmm, m-hm…

A worker arrives and waves over at Khan.

Worker: Mr. Doorman, sir? There's been an... incident.

Back with Uzi and us.

Uzi: Oh, I'm sweaty! Who programmed that?!

N: You good, Uzi?

Uzi: I'm good! Better than good! I am God!

She pauses to see Thad has shown up. She had given him a message to bring her railgun to her and he did so but he didn’t seem all that joyful and chill like usual.

Uzi chuckles nervously: Hi, hi, Thad.

He hands her back her railgun.

Uzis Thank you.

Thad: Of course, 'Zi!, N&M's. You saved my life. I don't think the colony is even serious about all this banishment stuff, more just confused. Especially with the fact-

Uzi: I'm too rogue to re-enter society now? I can never return…

Thad: ...Recent disappearances, and your murder friend's corpse. When I went to grab your gun, it kind of looked like it... crawled away...?

Uzi: We can return a little…

D: Okay, this is really weird. Well come take a look, dude.

Thad gave a relieved sigh.

Shadow then walked off and was standing in front of V. She looked up at him and rolled her eyes.

V: And what do you want?

Shadow: I just thought that since J’s corpse has mysteriously gone missing, you should know.

His eyes darted down to her broken off chains.

Shadow/ Also, since your chains are already broken off, would you like to come find her body?

V widened her eyes: Yes, I guess I’ll help you weaklings find J’s body. Scared workers.

Shadow: Thanks, I won’t tell the others you freed yourself so that we can all keep a steady mind.

V groaned but secretly she appreciated the gesture: Whatever.

He brought her outside where Thad and Uzi both took steps back.

Uzi: Why did you let her out?

Shadow: She could be useful if finding J. Having two assassins is better than one.

D: I guess that’s true.

They pushed it aside and then together they arrived at the door as the cold wind pushed against us.

Back at the colony, Tim comes across a hologram of Frank, aka, Ladderbot 5000.

Tim: Oh, Ladderbot 5000? We looked everywhere for you!

Frank screams in pain, then returns to normal.

Frank: Hi, Tim. Care to join me?

Tim: Join you standing eerily still over there in suspiciously low resolution?

Frank: ...Yes?

Tim: ...Alright.

He walks over, not knowing that the Absolute Solver is about to snatch him and drag him up into the ceiling until it's too late. He makes a light scream before his body is flattened and disintegrated by the Absolute Solver, oil spewed over the ground. Tim's hologram joins Frank’s.

Tim: Flawless character acting, me.

Frank: Improv game for more practice?

Tim: Hahaha! We are a monster!

The Solver’s eye looked down as it projected the holograms. It seemed very happy about what it was doing.

Back with us.

Uzi, N, V, me, Shadow and Thad head back to the colony. A worker opens a door a little bit to see who arrived.

Ron: Welcome back, Thad!

He then notices Uzi: Uh, wait, isn't she grounded or something?

Uzi: Ugh, banished! Has my dad been saying I'm grounded?

Ron noticed N and V: Genocide Robots?

N quietly walks up and hands Ron a crayon drawing to show how super very, very sorry he is for all the murders he committed.

Ron: ...Oh, alright, just don't do it again. Get in here, ya goobs!

He hangs the drawing on the door. We all stepped inside.

D: That was almost way too easy.

Shadow: I’m not complaining.

The Absolute Solver's handiwork has been turned into a crime scene.

Worker: Yeah, where's Khan? Because this looks, ahaha, ugh, non-ideal.

Sarah: Parent-Teacher Conference. Something about his daughter being more important than building a door in this hallway. Ugh, kind of cringe.

Worker: Ew.

He gets ready to hurl

Worker: Oh, give me a minute...

He magnates to hold his vomit in: Ah, yep, okay, almost threw up.

Uzi is behind them, listening in on their conversation.

N: You good?

Uzi: I'm good. Stop asking!

She pushes N away and motions for him and Thad to follow her while sneaking past the investigators. V was looking at them with that signature X sign over her visor.

Shadow: V, don’t do it!

He whisper shouted and pulled her hand, almost earring him a slap to the face. She begrudgingly agreed and walked away.

Sarah turns to two of her colleagues behind her: Any forensic things over there?

She gets no response: Do we have fingerprints?

They all fade away. She turns back to her colleague, who also fades out. Same with Frank and Tim. Her surroundings begin to get the same treatment. She looks up in horror as the Absolute Solver makes its way towards her...she screams in terror as she gets brutally ripped apart as The Absolute Solver watches its handiwork with a happy eye squint.

Back at the Parent-Teacher Conference…

Khan: I mean, you don't think it's my parenting, do you? I left her for dead once! It sounds like she's bored in your class and the other kids suck! Call her "damaged" again, and I will install a DOOR ON YOUR FACE!

As he was ranting the teacher was playing cards on his visor screen not hearing Khan out in this one. He didn’t get paid enough for this, or at all for that matter.

Lizzy and Doll are in the back, listening to the ragefest that is Khan.

Lizzy: Where are your folks?

Doll hesitates for a moment. She hadn’t smiled since what happened. Her mind was going over the flashbacks of when V murdered her parents. She clenched her hand.

Doll: Мёртвые. Я смотрела как они умирали. ("Dead. I watched them die".)

Lizzy: ...That was the joke, idiot?

They both hear a knocking. They turn to see a hologram of Lizzy outside the door.

Lizzy: That girl is... Gorgeous, right!? I'm gonna let her in.

She gets up to let her copy in being oblivious to the true nature behind the copy.

Uzi, N, Thad and the rest of us are in the room where they fought V and J.

Uzi: You guys... do that often?

N: Haha, no. I'm very concerned, but also pretty frightened a little bit.

He moved his finger into a gun motion.

V: This place was fun. So many kills!

D: Really, you just had to say that, didn’t you?

V sighed and went over to an oil splatter: Well this looks important.

Thad: Hey, Uzi! What's this thing?

It's an Absolute Solver sign branded on the wall.

N: Hey, isn't that your special eye?

Uzi: Don't call it that!

I stared at the symbol in confusion. Me and Uzi both had this “special eye” thing going on and now it was here. What was going on with us.

She reads aloud: "Absolute Solver"? "Reboot"? Does this have something to do with how you grew your head back?

N: Hehe. I actively avoid unpacking how that works.

Uzi: New material can't be pulled from thin air. If the wound is severe enough, this "Solver" might be some sort of auto run program to collect more matte-

N suddenly places his hand over her mouth to shush her. They hear something coming towards them

V: What the hell?

A human hand was moving closer to us with a black arm connecting it to something bigger. It latches itself onto Thad's leg as they look up to see what the hand is attached to. Not able to see much in pitch black, N fires his missile cannon. It acts as a flare and shows off a gaunt mass of tentacles and sharp claws.

D: Oh shit!

This does anger it enough to begin pulling Thad up. Until a shuriken flies in and slices the cable apart, freeing Thad. He looks back to see that N was the one who unleashed the shuriken.

Uzi: I want a freaking ninja star!

Shadow: Look out!

She and N get thrown against a wall as one of the Solver's claws grabs Thad and leaves. Me and Shadow both quickly ran after him recklessly.

V: Great! More dumb stuff to clearly end up near death in.

She flies after us with her blades out. From afar we still heard Uzi and N.

N was getting up: You good?

Uzi slams him back down: Stop asking! ...Chainsaw hand time?
N brungs out his chainsaw hands: Yeah, cool, cool.

 

Uzi and N give chase. They come across Thad's hologram. We had arrived and each of us got ready to fight back. Me and Shadow watched the Absolute Solver replicate Thad before it stared at V who glared back.

"Thad": Yes, and hello. It's me, Tad. Um, can I get a location? ...I heard dentist's office! I'm Thad at the dentist office. Come over here for your... teeth!

Uzi: Predictably terrible work, J. Why do you look so-

N: Great! You look great, J!

N was actually trying to convince “J” to not murder them outright so they could be bought some time.

V: Oh my, what happened to you?

"Thad": No, no, wait, guys, it's really me! Is that a

His voice glitches and turns robotically feminine.

“Thad”: …freaking ninja star?

N unleashes his shuriken as Uzi kicks it. It flies upwards to bring down the real Thad as the hologram disappears. We move Thad back as he coughs.

Thad pulls himself together: Life savers again. Thanks! Super invited to my shindig next weekend. Cool kids only.

He runs off as Uzi and N squee with delight over being invited to his get-together. V rolled her eyes at that while me and Shadow both smiled. The Absolute Solver wasn’t happy about that however.

Absolute Solver: We're busy then anyway, so whatever. So lame.

Uzi: What's with the voice, J?

Absolute Solver: Oh, J's not here. We are trying to repair that host as per our directive.

Uzi: So, you ARE a program?

Absolute Solver: More like you are our cute puppets. It hurts our feelings you don't remember us.

The Solver creates a hologram of Nori, Uzi's mother.

D: Oh God no!

Shadow: That’s just messed up.

D: What does she even mean by remembering her?

Shadow: Who cares. Let’s take her down.

Uzi: N...?

N had vanished and V pointed her blades around at the Solver.

Uzi: What's with the mom hologram...?

Absolute Solver: Easier to assimilate than explain.

Uzi: Not happening.

Absolute Solver: Fair, but poor choice. Now we will have to do something shocking.

The Solver brings down a clone of Khan.

Uzi: Woah! Hey!

Absolute Solver: Goodbye, Dad.

"Khan" gets ripped in two and the Solver feeds on his corpse.

Shadow: Jesus!

D: Uzi, hey! That’s not real. It’s another trick!

She wasn’t hearing us out at all. She was emotionally out of it again. V fired a missiles into the Solver and then flew back from its huge claw that attempted to grab her.

Uzi: What...?

The Solver goes in to kill Uzi, but it gets struck by a missile fired by N as well as another from V.

Absolute Solver: Pained cry.

N: Uzi shoot! Or give it to me!

He fires again, but the attack is deflected by the Solver.

Absolute Solver: Claw swipe.

It then begins to move in on us. Snarl.

V: Wait? That’s not N. N wouldn’t ask for a weapons.

“N”: Uzi! You good?!

Uzi: ...No.

N takes the railgun and fades out to reveal the Solver holding the gun now.

Absolute Solver: Pranked, idiot. You big stupid.

The Solver throws Uzi to the side, knocking the railgun out of her hands and smashing it, it grabs her.

Absolute Solver: Lucky for you, it's snack time. Time to go into my mouth now.

Before the Solver could feast on Uzi, N, the actual N this time, saws off its appendages. The railgun suddenly turns red as N fights the claws. V helps him so that N can stay alive. Me and Shadow move Uzi away knowing we couldn’t help in this fight.

Absolute Solver: Ow. And please don't. And also, I was using those.

We all make our escape as the railgun self-destructs... As we regain ourselves, they look back at the mess.

Uzi: What was...? Which parts of that were real...?

The Solver reappears and tries to escape.

Absolute Solver: Sneaky sneaky. Sneaking away. Get snuck upon.

N stabs it.

Absolute Solver: Ow.

Shadow kicks it into a wall which turns it into a miniature black hole and floats off. Hearing a commotion heading their way, N tries to help Uzi to her feet, but she resists in fear.

Uzi: What... are you things...?

Hurt by her newfound distrust in him, N flees the scene as a search party, led by Khan, shows up.

Shadow: Best get out of here you two.

V and N follow his advice and fly upward. N was hurt and V wasn’t affected but she respected his wishes. I knelt by Uzi and helped her stand up, she was very shaken up.

Khan: Uzi?

Uzi silently staggers towards him.

Khan: What are you doin-

Uzi, without a word, hugs her father, who silently returns the embrace. He gestures for his men to scour the area. Khan looks up and sees N, who makes his escape. Me and Shadow were surprised by the two but we could understand it.

We were let back into Uzi’s home and we each went into our rooms. Me and Shadow got to talking in the middle of the night.

Shadow: You remember what you said about our family being gone?

D: Yeah, why?

Shadow: After seeing Khan and Uzi, even after his terrible, terrible, mistake, hug it out. It made me miss my folks.

D: I know what you mean. It sucks, but I guess we have a new family with N and Uzi and everyone else, y’know.

Shadow: Dude, that sounds extremely cringy.

We end the night with a laugh on that before heading off to bed.

Doll is sitting by herself in the classroom, looking at a photo. A robotic cockroach crawls up her arm as she looks back towards the door and remembers what happened earlier when Lizzy saw a copy of herself behind the door.

Lizzy: Gorgeous, right?! I'm gonna let her in.

She gets up to let her copy in... Only for Doll to use one of her powers to break the door before Lizzy could reach it. A red version of the Solver sign.

Lizzy: Jesus, sorry, industrial strength ghost or whatever. Settle.

She takes her seat as her copy disappears. Lizzy groaned and went to look at her phone.

Back in the present time, the roach crawls onto the photo, only for Doll to use her Solver to explode the robotic roach. She licks some of its remains off her face as we see what's in the photograph she's holding. It appears to be V. She was going to murder her and avenge all those who died. She wasn’t going to let anyone get in her way either.

Back at the Corpse House, V speaks to N, who is still guilt-ridden over what happened earlier.

V sighs in annoyance, back in chains: I hate your personality normally, but this is somehow worse. What am I being punished for?

V’s expression softens, and she looks down. She didn’t want N to be sad while with her about some worker. She was his lifelong friend, not that Emo Grape. She continued to look back at N, and then she turned away again with her arms crossed.

Uzi is in her room, laying down on her bed, and looking up at a web of theories in regards to the Absolute Solver program. It was a whole mess and she was going to try and figure it out.

Notes:

Now instead of the prom we'll take a visit to Thad's place in the next chapter made entirely of my own accord. Would be prime time to request an OC if you want to have them in this. Can be a worker or a disassembly drone. Something is also going to blossom out and some party crashers are gonna arrive. See you soon, that's all folks!

Chapter 3: MURDER DRONES (X): Thad’s Party

Summary:

While bored out of their robot shells, Shadow, D, and Uzi decide to go to Thad’s party but a nefarious force is at work, trying to kill them before things go South.

Notes:

So it’s been a minute yeah? That would be due to me having to remember how me and my friend worked this story out and then I had to wove it all together. It most definitely is not the best work but I try. Enjoy my readers.

Thad’s Party

It had been a week since the eldritch horror thing with J’s corpse and none of us tried reaching out to N and V and vice versa. It had been a boring few days, so boring that I went outside into the halls of the colony and just walked about to clear my head.

My mind had begun overthinking the strange eye thing that happened after we took down J and V. And Uzi had it too, this could mean something bad, a virus or some strange infection from this world. How could I know though?

Other footsteps were heard as some different looking drones walked down the hall. They had blasters in hand and some black visors, almost like human soldiers.

Quickly hid behind a crate as they walked on by. They suddenly stopped and one scanned the room. They both cocked their blasters.

Drone 1: Report to the boss.

Drone 2: Fine. Hey boss, the place is secure, no sign of any threats yet. Shall we deploy our weapon?

A garbled static replied and the drones nodded.

Drone 2: Understood, boss. We’ll get things done.

They two walked off leaving me confused. My visor displayed WTF on it before going back to my face. Once they left I began to make my way back to the room. My eye flashed the symbol again and I smacked myself.

D: Gah, I wish that would stop.

It didn’t seem like it would. I walked back into the room to see Shadow sitting on his bed awake. He looked at me, almost in anger.

Shadow: Where did you go?

D: A walk.

Shadow: And why didn’t you tell me?

D: Am I supposed to?

Shadow: I would just like to know. Where the only connection to our old world. Without you and Uzi, I’d be alone.

D: And N and V?

Shadow: They don’t know us like we know each other.

D: Alright. I do have something to mention. That weird symbol Uzi has. I think I have it too, but don’t tell her, no need for a panic.

Shadow sighs: Okay, fine. This world gets weirder everyday.

D: Tell me about it.

We headed off to sleep and our dreams began. Although they seemed a lot more different than before when we were on Earth. More machines like I guess you could say.

The next day began and like before we were extremely bored out of our minds. We sat at a table with Uzi. Shadow slammed his head down.

Shadow: God, I’m so bored! What is there to do today?

D: Doesn’t Thad have that party we can attend?

Uzi: Umm, yeah, should we go to that though?

D: I mean we don’t have too if you’re uncomfortable.

Uzi: Uncomfortable? Who said I’m uncomfortable? You’re uncomfortable. Agh! Bite me!

She stormed away with some stomping. We both just sat there.

Shadow: Great job, dude.

D: Yeah yeah.

Hours went in by and me and Shadow had begun playing a game of Uno. A very heated match that went back and forth, nearly causing us to go on a full on brawl. That was until Uzi opened our door.

Uzi: So, are we going to the party or what?

Uzi was dressed in some finer looking clothes, much like her usual style. She wasn’t in the mood for the party but she was ready to go to it.

Shadow: Yeah, let’s rock.

We both joined Uzi who was anxious about this party. Thad was the popular kid and multiple other popular kids would also probably be there and being the weird kid might make others weirded out.

We knocked on the door and Thad opened it up with a cup of oil in hand.

Thad: You guys made it. Awesome. N’s not coming?

Shadow: No, we’re giving us all some breathing room.

Thad: Makes sense to me. Come on in. I got a table of drinks, some music in one room, a movie in the other, and the kitchen’s got your usual batteries laid about.

I: Thanks man. We appreciate it.

We walked inside and saw the red storming lights moving around. It was definitely an atmosphere we weren’t comfortable with, that’s for sure. Something had caught Shadow’s eye though, or someone.

It was a girl in black with red and yellow stripes and a black skirt. She had some black boots on and her dark, purple hair went down to her hips. Her orange, reddish eyes, gleaming. She seemed like she was coping with something.

With her was another girl in black but with a shorter skirt with a yellow stripe and red cloth on her chest. A red hat on her head with yellow cat ears on top of her headband. Her blonde hair was curled up to her shoulders. She seemed very happy and carefree.

He looked at us and we nodded for him to go talk with them. He gladly walked on over to them with a very smug look on his face.

I shook my head and grabbed me and Uzi a drink.

I: Anything you wanna do?

Uzi: No, I kind of regret coming here. If N was here maybe I would be different. Everyone is still weirded out by me, no thanks but also no hate. It’s so freaking annoying when they can’t make up their own opinions.

I: So you wanna step out for a bit?

Uzi: Ugh. Yeah, I guess so.

We take our leave out into the hall and close the door. Predictably, no one noticed our absence. No one but Shadow of course.

Shadow: Hello ladies.

They both look at him. Both of them looked him up and down before speaking.

Lizzy: You're that guy who's friends with the Murder Drones, right?

Shadow: Yeah, that’s me. Names Shadow, and your Lizzy and Doll correct?

Lizzy: Yeah, that’s us.

Doll still spoke in Russian but Shadow had installed a translator to hear her: Why are you friends with them?

Shadow: They’ve helped me out slightly. I’m mainly friends with N, the guy of the group.

Doll: And what about the other one?

Shadow: On shaky terms.

Lizzy: I’m going to grab some cups, brb.

She walked off leaving the two dark clothed teens alone in the party.

Shadow: You know, you're pretty hot, for a Russian drone.

He leaned down and made the bold move to kiss her hand.

Doll: Thank you. Why are you acting differently? I’ve seen you with D and Uzi and you don’t act like this.

Shadow: Just being friendly.

Doll: Well, be yourself instead.

Shadow: Myself?

Doll nodded and Lizzy came back with the cups and handed them out.

Lizzy: What did I miss?

Doll: Shadow was being flirty.

Lizzy: Oh, so that’s why you came over here.

Shadow: It’s not like that!

Lizzy: Just messing with you, settle down.

Lizzy and Doll were laughing with each other and suddenly Shadow joined in: Right, I knew that.

Doll: Guess we’ll see you around then?

Shadow was shocked and excited, he secured his goal: Yeah, totally. See you two later.

He waved at them and then walked outside with a happy smile. I waved back with a thumbs up while Uzi didn’t acknowledge him.

Shadow sat down beside Uzi: I guess this party was pretty bad for you?

Uzi: No! Bite me! This party was cool, everyone wanted to talk with me, to be fair.

Shadow rolled his eyes: Yeah. Okay. So are we gonna leave this place or stick around?

The ceiling began to creak. The metal above us was pulled open and two green eyes stared down at us with bright green saliva dripping down.

D: I vote we run away!

We bolted and ran from the approaching creature. It was a giant metal red scorpion with green spikes and a brighter neon green stinger. He shrieked and followed as. We scrambled away as quickly as possible as it tried to sting us.

Shadow: Uzi! What is that thing?

Uzi: How should I know?

D: Quickly, back into Thad’s house!

We ran into the open door and quickly shut it before we painted and stayed still at the door as we got many weird glances.

Lizzy: Oh great. What did the freaks drag in now?

The scorpion pinched the door off and walked through, its body destroying some of the wall as it engulfed itself into the room.

Doll: You just had to say something, didn’t you?

The scorpion roared out and suddenly shot a green beam from its stinger into a random worker which rendered them offline. It turned toward other drones and screeched as it approached them next.

I threw a cup of oil at it which drew its attention: That worked.

Shadow: Yeah, but now what?

I: Work on getting everyone outside and away from the scorpion. That includes you Uzi.

Uzi: Hey! You can’t just send me out like that!

D: You want to fight him?

The scorpion snarled and grabbed a random drone and crushed him like a water balloon, spewing oil everywhere.

Uzi: Ugh, fine, try not to die, idiot.

She moved out, making sure to get Thad out along with other random drones. Shadow made sure to get Doll and Lizzy out as he dodged a table thrown by the scorpion.

I threw another oil cup at the scorpion and he fired off a green blast toward me. I narrowly dodged onto to be met with his claw to slap me right in the face and send me into Thad’s couch.

I groaned and rolled over, seeing the scorpion locating me and charging towards my current location. It sent its stinger toward me and I braced for impact only for it to never come. In front of me was a green sign. The Absolute Solver.

I saw it held the stinger back and quickly I moved backward only for its claws to still snatch at me. I raised my hand and then The Absolute Solver went away as the metal beast strength knocked me away and out of focus.

I landed into a DJ booth and a song was starting to play. Three Days Grace’s Time of Dying. Now with the assured plot armor I rose up and The Absolute Solver returned and began to use my hand to move various fold up chairs into the scorpion beast.

It didn’t appreciate that so I shot a green beam at me again only for the symbol to block it with another chair. The scorpion crushed the chair and then as it sent another claw toward me Shadow returned with a cyan colored Absolute Solver.

We both cornered the scorpion and our combined powers were enough to cause the scorpion to become crushed by the symbols power. Contributing the metal until it was a metal ball. It was definitely dead.

Shadow: Good thing I decided to not listen to you.

D: Yeah, I’m glad too. Now let’s get this out of here and fix the place up.

Shadow: Good idea.

We sent the dead scorpion away into the sky and out onto the planet's surface before patching the hole up and then fixing the whole place. We walked out with the symbols fading away and some cracked mirrors.

Thad: So is it gone?

Shadow: Yeah, we took care of him easily. You may have a few broken mirrors though.

Thad: At least the rest of my shindig won’t be destroyed. I think that’s enough of the party though, see you both at prom.

Thad walked back into his house and the other drones began to walk away murmuring.

I: Prom? There’s a prom?

Shadow: That’s perfect. I got to go find something nice to wear for Doll.

He walked off while I stood there perplexed. I sat there with a loading screen on my face before Uzi slapped me.

Uzi: Thanks for not dying or whatever. And Prom is not that serious, relax.

I: Oh, yeah, no problem.

We all walked back into our rooms, Uzi stayed up working on something while me and Shadow laid in our beds talking with each other.

I: So what’s up with those symbols?

Shadow: I don’t know but I like them.

His symbol returned and he spun it around, moving a few objects around. He had a smile on his face.

I: We should probably be careful with them.

Shadow: Yeah, totally. But come on, we can have so much fun with this.

I: I guess. My mind is going crazy about Prom. Should I find a date?

Shadow: I don’t know dude. You can surely try to find one. I know I got one though. Maybe you can try Uzi.

I: No. I’m not going with Uzi!

Shadow: You know, as friends.

I: I’m not, she would either go with Thad or not go at all.

Shadow: Whatever dude but she’s still an option.

I: Okay. I’ll think about it.

I entered my sleep mode while Shadow was taking a bit longer since he was interested by The Absolute Solver he had.

Shadow: Maybe she’s up.

Shadow sent a message to Doll simply saying, hello.

Doll responded a few seconds later with a hello in Russian.

Shadow: Okay. So she is up. Now to see about that dance.

On the Planet’s surface

The two purple Drones from before fell down before some purple feet and a staff.

They held their hands up pleading: Boss, we didn’t realize they were infected, please give us another chance!

The Boss: Excuses. There was no reason you couldn’t have found out this information. If the scorpion was still alive, I would let it consume you both. But for now, you get one more chance. I have a deal to make so you better not mess anything up while I’m gone.

The Boss fades away in particles much to the drones relief. The mysterious figure then formed a dark, red room. It was Doll’s room and she was smiling for the first time in a while.

She looked up: What do you want?

The Boss: Oh I come with a proposition Doll.

Doll: Go on.

The Boss: How would you like to avenge your parents and kill V?

Doll smiled maliciously and quickly sat herself up: When do we begin?

Notes:

Thanks for reading. The Scorpion was my friends idea and Thad’s party was my idea. Now I know some of you may not like Shadow being with Doll but that’s what my friend did with his OC so it’s kinda of a deal with it situation. Remember that you can still introduce your own OC’s into this, it might take a while to weave them in but I’ll do my best. The next part will be ready soon, Prom time, get it like Prime time, no one? Okay, I’ll see myself out.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 4: MURDER DRONES (X): The Promeniring

Summary:

Doll and The Boss have formed a plan to get her parents back to from the dead, will she go through with this right in the middle of Prom, yeah, she definitely will, and D and Shadow will be thrown into the mix with Uzi, N, and V. Enjoy this awakening of the Solver powers.

Notes:

Thanks for reading as always, remember you can request OC’s!

At school, a female student with blue colored eyes is running from something in the darkened halls. Her glasses get broken, blurring her vision due to her glitchy eyes. She can barely see someone in the distance. She puts her broken glasses back on and notices a nearby surveillance camera turning by itself. The girl looks forward. Someone is in front of her. That someone is a Doll. She uses her red Absolute Solver to tear the girl's right arm off. She then summons a cleaver, multiplies it times three, and flings them into the female drone, killing her swiftly.
Doll went over and gathered the bodily remains and put them in a bag and then walked toward her house humming a tune slightly, a Russian song.
She walks into her home, stepping on a bug in the process, uses her red symbol to put her books onto a shelf, then crosses the girl's name, Kelsey, off a list.
Doll: Мам, Пап, я вернулась. (I'm back, Mom, Dad.)
We see a hoard of cockroaches on the walls. Her home life was a literal hell hole but now she had a chance to get vengeance back on what occurred.
Uzi was dreaming, going over her past flashbacks, she had been for a very long time now. It was either her after seeing the weird eldritch horror that was J’s body: What... are you things...?
Her screen showed a clock and then switched to some text saying, GUILT: ACTIVE
She wakes up, still guilty over denying N's help after battling the Eldritch version of J. She looks up at a drawing of herself and N, who she probably received the drawing from as thanks for being his friend. she begins groaning. She does this throughout the school day. In class, in the gym, while getting hit by a dodgeball in the face, though this barely snaps her out of it.
Me and Shadow both hit the drone who hit her in the face as payback. We both had a smirk on our faces.
Uzi finally gets to her locker. Rebecca walks by and knocks Uzi off the small stack of books she was standing on to reach her locker door.
Rebecca: Yeah, meeting Brad in an hour.
Uzi takes one of her books and hurls it at Rebecca.
Rebecca: Can you imagine going to prom alone?
Uzi's book hits Braiden instead. He gets knocked back and his still flaming head falls back onto some snow.
Trevor puppeting his hand: Ha, I'd be all like, "I don't deserve happiness."
Shadow: Jerks! Don’t worry about them, Uzi.
I picked up Uzi’s books and handed them back to her. She snatched them out with a semi angry, semi thankful expression.
Uzi sighed and turned to leave. She stops when some missing persons posters get her attention. She looks over to see a janitor cleaning up an oil spill, then upwards to see a security camera glitching.
Shadow: That’s concerning. This wasn’t from that scorpion.
D: Yeah, it wasn’t, this is something else entirely.
Cackling, she snags the posters and rushes back home to put them on the ceiling, with us following. To her shock, the papers that were on the ceiling before are now gone.
It turns out Khan had taken them and placed them in a closet labeled "NORI'S KOOKY INSANE STUFF". As he leaves, he spots Uzi sulking in a corner.
Uzi turns and runs to Khan angrily: My crazed ramblings! Stay outta my freaking room!
Me and Shadow stood to the side before a bell rang on Shadow’s screen.
Shadow: Oh, that’s my date. I’ll see you at Prom then?
D: Yeah, have fun.
I seemed kind of out of it. More dazed and confused about the day, Prom was so confusing for me at the moment, you were supposed to have a date when you go, right?
Khan: Personal space for a very alarming coping mechanisms isn't covered under a…
He consults his manual: "non-optional family support structure".
Uzi smacks the manual out of his hands: I'm sorry for being vulnerable for five seconds, okay!? You were never there for me. If you wanna help now, stay distant.
Khan doesn't respond. He was visibly hurt by her words but in Uzi’s defense, he was still never there to help her and now this was his reality.
Uzi sighs: We’re going to talk to N.
She comes across a child's skeleton wearing a dress. Her face flashed a confused mashup of dots and symbols: What is this?!
Khan: Prom dress. Child's small. You're grounded from seeing those bad influencing murder drones. I also found your friend, D, a suit as well so he can make sure you go to that dance and…
D: Umm, thank you, I guess.
I was just as confused as Uzi was now. What was going on? Was he setting us up or something because I don’t think I was good for this.
Uzi: Huh?
Khan: But, I talked to your teacher to find you classmates to go with tonight!
Uzi: HUH?!
Khan opens a door, revealing Lizzy who had her phone in hand and a smug smile on her face. She didn’t actually seem mad about being here as I would have expected.
Lizzy: 'Sup, freak. Prepare to be popular.
Khan: I'm chaperoning!
Uzi screams at all of this in fear and rage and confusion. Now I realized that Khan wasn’t setting us up, he was trying to help Uzi gain a social life and a good time, while his intentions were good, he was making it worse.
Meanwhile back at the corpse spire, two frozen skeletons are shown. One wears a red, sparkling dress, while the other wears a tuxedo.
N: I do want to be dapper... But no! That's why you had me find these? We can't interact with the workers anymore, V.
He flashes his visor back to when Uzi denied his help: We're too dangerous...
V: Uh, exactly. We show up fabulous, the sad purple one lets us in, cause she has no friends, besides those green and cyan drones, we kill everyone, and pop her little head off.
N: I'm not bringing you for prom murder, V. J went holo-spooky-snake-crab and we maybe grew up in a haunted mansion! Aren't you worried we have no idea what we even are?!
No response. She was quiet and her joking instantly stopped. She gained a worried expression on her face.
V: ...Promise me you and that purple thing will stop prying into that stuff. If you free me now, I promise we'll only kill what we need to survive. Just you and me, N...
She and N stare at a nearby key. N was hesitant to release her, this would have secured him his way to a life he wanted previously with V but now, life changed, his mind changed. He didn’t know what was real or what he wanted anymore.
Back in the colony, Shadow walked into Doll’s house. He looked around and saw the trashed papers and robotic limbs. He frowned.
Shadow: I see you’ve been busy.
Doll: Yeah, all according to plan.
She walked out from her kitchen which she had worked on tidying up for Shadow’s arrival. It was still a work in progress but with Shadow she actually felt some hope.
Shadow: Doll…oh wow! You're beautiful!
Doll was wearing a dress that started as black at the top and switched down into a dark red at the bottom of her dress. She spun around and smiled.
Doll: Glad you like it. You should get ready? Uzi will be coming over with D and Lizzy soon.
Shadow: Oh, alright, need my help cleaning up?
Doll brought her Absolute Solver out and moved some stuff around: No, I got it.
Shadow: Woah, you have it too!
Doll nodded with a smile and then turned toward the door and Shadow moved into the bathroom and got himself ready in a black tux with everything else being black too. The only thing that wasn’t black was his tie.
Doll stood at the door and felt a gust of wind. The Boss had materialized himself into her room and looked down at her. His glowing white eyes with a yellow glow above his face showed off some purple armor.
The Boss: I assume things are proceeding as planned?
Doll: Yes, and you're sure that this’ll work?
The Boss: Of course it will. Tonight will be the perfect opportunity. Just don’t fail me. I want her gone just as much as you do.
Doll: Why do you want her dead?
The Boss: That’s not your concern, continue your work and I’ll see if I can bring your parents back.
Doll with a sense of hope: It will be done.
The Boss banged his staff into the ground and teleported away just as Shadow walked out, oblivious with the conversation that was taking place.
Shadow: Guess I’ll see you at the dance then?
Doll: Oh, yes. See you soon.
The two shared a smile and got close to touching their faces but instead they blushed and Shadow left her room only for Lizzy, Uzi, and me to be at the door.
I nodded at him and he nodded back and moved aside and motioned them in before he went toward the dance. The door closed and we all just stood there.
Lizzy: I see you cleaned a little.
Doll: I’ve been in a good mood today.
Uzi avoids stepping on a bug. She starts to get freaked out by the place. Bugs moved all around, it was dark and red, and there were crumpled up missing person papers and even a dismembered limb.
D muttered: This is totally not concerning.
Uzi: Hey, so, thanks for having me, but now that my dad thinks I'm here, I'm actually gonna-
The door closed before she could bail out. This shocked us both and I stepped back, confused.
Lizzy: You're both hilarious. They’re hilarious. You should get ready. You're gonna look so cute, in a brave way.
Uzi turns, and Doll magically appears in front of her. Creeped out, Uzi looks down at a trash can next to Doll, which contains more missing persons posters. We were both shocked.
D Mutters : Absolute Solver…
Doll: Ванная по коридору налево. (Bathroom is down the hall to the left.)
Uzi backs away slowly, groaning. She walked to the bathroom and I waited outside the door waiting for her, I had already changed beforehand into a formal button up shirt with some dress pants, nothing crazy but not bland.
Back at the Corpse Spire
N: Uh... V, if you're hiding something, we can figure it out together. Even if we each only have pieces. Please, what do you know-
V had sliced his head off. He would come back but this was what she needed to do to ensure she got what she needed and to keep N safe, for a time.
V: What's best for you. Even if you hate me for it.
As this goes on, Uzi is in the restroom, cleaning herself in front of a mirror. Her left eye suddenly acts crazy.
Uzi: Easy, Robo-Satan. Not this mirror.
The mirror suddenly breaks regardless. She climbs up and hears talking on the other side. Talking from me and then from Lizzy and Doll.
D: Is everything okay, Uzi?
Uzi groaned: Yeah, totally, see what Doll and Lizzy are talking about.
D: Alright, I’m pretty curious too.
Lizzy in a muffled voice: Dude, no one will notice she's missing. Just do your thing, and I'll let in V. We'll see you there.
D: Why let V in?
Uzi: What the f-
She hears something else. A dripping noise. She looks over and sees blood dripping from the tub. She goes to investigate. She pulls back the curtain to find lots of dead robot bodies and limbs. She gasped and opened the door to pull me inside and she shut the door back.
Back at the Corpse House, N wakes up screaming and then groaning, feeling around his head.
N gets up: Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no...!
He leaves, he looks back at the skeletons. Then tries to leave again. Then he looks back: No, no time!
He leaves only to then peek his head back down: Dapper N...
Uzi and I were disgusted to find Doll's tub is filled with corpses and photos covered in blood. She suddenly hears footsteps. We looked up at a ventilation shaft. I quickly used my Absolute Solver to move multiple mirrors into a stack and climb into the ventilation shaft with them. Uzi hurried up and we quickly moved away.
Doll enters the bathroom only to find that Uzi has escaped by building a ladder out of some of the materials in the tub.
Doll: Как они по-русски любят говорить... "Ой, я должна была предположить, что кто-то сможет убежать через вентиляцию, используя выброшенные зеркала как ступеньки." (As they say in Russian... "Whoops, I should've predicted that someone could escape out of a ventilation shaft using discarded mirrors as stairs.")
Outside, me and Uzi are running when she collides with N.
Uzi: N?!
D: Dude?
N: Uzi?
They spoke at the same time.
Uzi: Why are- N: You look-
Uzi: How did- N: I, uh-
Uzi: I think something bad-
N: I could help.
He walks off muttering under his breath: But you probably don't want me...
Uzi: No, I could use the help... of you... being there... with me…
D: Yeah, we need your help with some of the crazy stuff going on. Where’s V?
N points over to the colony. I groaned and slump my shoulders down.
D: Of course she’s in there!
N walks besides us and pats our shoulders, comforting us: Dapper buddies!
Uzi nudges him away, but is still happy to be friends with him again.
At the prom, everyone is either having the time of their lives or are bored out of their metaphoric skulls, like Braiden being all alone with his burning head. Eventually, Lizzy walks on stage.
Lizzy: Okay, listen up, nerds. We're doing this a little early, but since the entire prom court "mysteriously" disappeared, your queen by forfeit is uh, this.
V drops in, terrifying everyone. Her eyes shaped in a yellow X as she laughed and salvia dropped from her mouth.
Shadow looked at her, ready to use his Absolute Solver if necessary. Doll walked beside him which distracted him quickly. They smiled at each other.
Guy: Oh, we're gonna die!
Lizzy: Easy, judgey bots, V is my friend. She's done with the murder or whatever. We've been hanging.
V: Yes, best friends. So easily manipulated...
She begins cackling, then stops: Prom queen?
She looks at a nervous Lizzy, then over to the crown that's supposed to be given to her: Ugh...
Holding a list, Doll chuckles evilly. Shadow looks down at her and puts a hand on her shoulder with a worried look on his face. She looks at him but all she can think about is getting things back to normal again, with living parents.
Lizzy: So, forgive and forget, or I'll get my dad to dock your freakin' grades!
She points at someone in the crowd: And you can't sit with us, Rebecca.
Rebecca: ...Fine, I forgive her, settle...!
Everyone applauds and Shadow gives off an eye roll and a huff. They turned real quick.
Male Drone: She's quite cute, though.
Lizzy: Clap harder, losers!
Penny to V: Your dress is really cute!
She crowns V and quickly steps away as quickly as she can.
V: I... Uh...
Crowd: Speech, speech!
Khan tries to leave, but the doors are sealed shut by Doll's AbsoluteSolver.
Khan: Not... the doors...!
Shadow: Doll? What are you doing? You're getting out of hand with this.
Doll: I’m sorry, but I need my parents back.
Shadow: What are you talking about?!
She ignores him and moves closer up stage toward V with a wicked smile and a glint of murder in her eye.
V: I'll kill everyone after? It's not vain, it's extra sinister...
V goes up to the mic to make her speech as Doll begins to unleash her AbsoluteSolver and kill her. Before she could, Uzi, me, and N crashed down behind her.
Uzi: Ah ha! Unhand them, you fiend-
Everyone is staring at us awkwardly.
Uzi: I'm confused.
D: Me too.
Lizzy: On second thought, you're way hotter than Doll! Run, idiot!
Before V could move away, Doll slowly unleashes her Absolute Solver and makes it to where V’s arms get stuck, impelled by two poles, then one went into her chest. Everything around V was dull and deafening.
As everyone flees for their lives, Penny is crushed by her Absolute Solver, quite brutally. First her head was twisted around to her back and then she was flattened into an oil smear. Other students popped like water balloons while other students were flung out windows.
Doll was slowly advancing towards her: Привет, Ви. (Hello, V.)
Shadow walks toward Doll with an outstretched hand. His cyan symbol at the ready for use.
She makes V flashback to when V killed her mother. V had drank the oil off her as she slashed into her face and chest, ripping them right open.
Doll: Ладно, тебе всё понятно. (Anyway, you get it.)
V frees her right arm and fires at Doll, but the shots deal no damage because of the Absolute Solver deflecting them. Doll summons her cleaver and flings it at V, severing her arm. Doll then summons a fan blade down to cut off her head.
Uzi: Holy crap, what is she doing?!
N: This isn't what I expected at all! I guess we should... Uh...
Uzi groans in annoyance before rushing to save V and stop Doll.
Doll flings the blade at V. Just as she braces for the worst, N swoops in and kicks the blade to the side. Uzi flings her knife, which damages her Absolute Solver. This removes the symbol block on the door as well, letting everyone else escape and leaving the rest of us in here.
Doll: Узи, ты правда на стороне Дронов-Убийц? Я не единственная, кто потеряла из-за них семью. (Uzi, you would really side with the Murder Drones? I'm not the only one who's lost family to them.)
Uzi: Bite me! Whoever started this wants us to fight. I'm not dealing with anything well, but I'm done dealing with everything alone.
She looks at N, me, and Shadow, and we all smile softly at each other.
Uzi: We move forward together, or not at all.
Doll: Как мило, но мне твоя помощь не нужна. (Cute, but I don't need help.)
Her red symbol pierces through N and she launches the blades his way. N shoves Uzi to the side and gives one final thumbs up before the blades strike him, tearing him into pieces. Khan tries to rush in and help his daughter, only for Doll to re-seal the door shut using the Absolute Solver.
Shadow: That’s enough! Doll, don’t you see what you're doing here? You're killing others, they now have to experience the loss you're going through, do you really want that for everyone?
Doll: You don’t understand, Shadow. Doing this gets my family back. That’s all that matters to me.
Shadow: What? You can’t just bring a drone back!
I join in and hold Doll’s arms down using multiple chairs.
D: He’s right, listen to him Doll.
Doll breaks free and pushes the chairs into us along with some desks and then summons her knife and hurls it towards Uzi, who catches it through her left hand, her oil getting smeared and also narrowly missing her eye. The two begin to engage in a battle with their knives.
Meanwhile, with N, he reaches over for a crawling arm.
N: Is this-
V: Mine!
She snatches the arm away from him with her mouth like a grumpy cat.
Lizzy: Ew. You look like garbage.
V speaks with the arm in her mouth: You frickin' traitor!
Lizzy: As if you weren't using me to try and kill everyone, Ms. Petty.
She looks at the arm in her hand: Where does this freaking go?
N: Thank you, Lizzy!
Lizzy and V: Shut up, loser.
Meanwhile, Doll and Uzi are still battling until Uzi gets downed. Doll picks up her knife, multiplies it, and hurls them towards Uzi. But N blocks them all with his wings. He then helps Uzi up after Uzi pulls the mic stands off her.
Shadow and I flung the chairs off and I charged into Doll. Shadow tries to stop me but I push past him. Doll turns and sends her knife into my leg making me tumble and fall down with a grunt of pain.
Shadow runs past me and restrains Doll: Doll, please, give up now. It’s a 5 vs 1 battle. Whatever you're going through, we can help.
Doll: How could you understand?
Shadow: Me and D lost our parents too. We know the pain.
Doll freezes up slightly before she pushes Shadow off her: I don’t know what to do. I need my family back.
Shadow: Doll, quit this!
The Boss appears above the stage lights, in the darkness: Don’t fail now, Doll, remember what I promised you.
Doll looks at Uzi and N while I pull the knife out. Suddenly a mechanical wolf lands down into the place and runs toward me and Shadow with a slobbering jaw full of razor sharp teeth.
D: Run quickly!
Shadow: How else would we run, ahh!
The wolf’s jaws almost closed around Shadow’s arm before he bolted away in a hurry.
Uzi: Quit saving me!
N and Uzi continue dodging while doing dancing poses. Doll is starting to get even more frustrated as she suddenly sends a knife past them and it cuts N’s chest, leaving a huge gap seeping with oil.
Uzi: Seriously. Don't do that again.
N: Uzi... Ah, okay, your turn!
He tosses Uzi out of the way and gets hit by an oncoming table. He heals himself up and pushes the table off of him.
Doll levitates some tables and Uzi makes her way across them. Uzi grabs knives and hurls them at Doll and they knock Doll's bracelet off as she turns around to stare at it. Uzi kicks Doll while she is turned away and Doll begins to unleash her Absolu-
SPLAT!
V struck Doll from behind with her hand as a gun. Doll falls to the floor lifeless. The gun smoked and Doll had oil smeared onto the floor.
The Boss: What a shame, wolf, finish them off.
The Boss dissolved away leaving Shadow and I close to getting mauled by the mechanical wolf. I was put against the wall and felt the jaws around my neck. I desperately pulled the jaws apart as Shadow stabbed a metal pole into the wolf.
The wolf howled and turned to attack him and I grabbed the pole and pulled it back, multiplied it by ten and sliced the wolf’s head off. We both sighed in relief before Shadow turned around to see Doll on the ground.
Shadow: Doll!
He rushed over and knelt beside her body.
Uzi: V, we needed her for answers!
V: What? She's fine. Uhh... A little tuckered out...
N: V did that on purpose! She's hiding mystery stuff and being over dramatic about it!
V punches N: Hey! You suck!
Uzi: You!
V and N point at each other accusingly.
Uzi: Lucky for you, we're not done yet.
Uzi picks up and holds the key to Doll's house. V groans. Shadow was mourning the loss of his date silently.
Uzi: I’ll leave you to that.
They began to walk away and I walked over to him.
D: You know she’s not dead, right?
Shadow: Oh yeah, haha, right, I knew that.
He held Doll in his arms with digital tears disappearing from his visor.
D: I’m going after them, try to remove that bullet.
Shadow nods and I follow the others in a run. Shadow flicks the bullet out and brushes Doll’s hair away from her face and she wakes back up, repairing her face.
Shadow: You gave me a scare.
Doll: Sorry, I got in over my head. Ow, my head hurts.
Shadow: Don’t worry, you're going to be okay now.
He hugs her and she then teleports them both toward her room.
Uzi, N, I and V arrive at Doll's house. N turns on the lights which are bright red.
Uzi: Uh-oh...
V: Hehe. Nice.
Corpses, garbage, and insects are scattered all over the place. V has an arm in her mouth. I stare at her dumbfounded.
Uzi took the arm out: Ugh, self respect!
We all spread out to snoop around.
Uzi: Why would a worker drone...
She gets oil on her fingers: Was she eating them?
She places the arm into a container holding two more.
D: Who knows at this point. He definitely looked worse earlier.
N uncovers two corpses, his happy tone quickly dropped away fast.
N while disturbed: I think we found her folks...
V: They don't really, didn't even taste that good.
N: V, you kind of suck.
V: Yeah. I'm not doing okay.
She eats a bug like it’s popcorn and I just stare at her, dumbfounded.
Uzi makes her way over to investigate. Uzi checks out a name tag. Yeva. Doll's mother. Suddenly, Doll and Shadow teleport in behind them and Doll sees V in her house by her mother.
Doll: Die you bitch!
Everyone turns around as a shot is fired but Uzi stops the bullet with her own, a purple Absolute Solver.
D: Uzi…?
Doll: Мне... Мне тебя... (I... I'm sorry...)
The bullet ricochets into the wall beside Uzi.
Doll: ...Жаль. Если я найду то, что ищу, то и тебе помогу. (...For you. If I find what I'm looking for, I'll help you too.)
Uzi: What?!
Doll: Извини. (I am sorry.)
V flies up to attack: Come here you narc!
Uzi rushes towards Doll: What? Oh, don't you dare!
V had already shot a missile at Doll. But Doll is already gone and the missile hits Shadow instead. V hissed and landed on him: Ugh! Walk it off and control your psycho girlfriend.
Shadow: Ow! I’m already dealing with psycho you!
Uzi shouting towards the heavens above: Ugh, I hate it HEEERE!!!
D: I’m officially lost.
Meanwhile, a Worker Drone, Reid, is digging through the snow, where he finds his missing glasses.
Reid: Ah, that's where I left my excuse to be outside right now.
He puts his glasses on, and looks up as a Murder Drone pod comes hurling towards him. He gets out of the way, only to get thrown back by an explosion. He survives, only for another pod to arrive. The pod's passenger comes out and slices Reid's head off. It's Tessa, a certified technician for JCJenson.
Tessa: Righty-o. Work to do. Eh, J?
J flies in next to her, newly rebuilt and reprogrammed, and mad about what happened to her previous body. She hands her a keychain.
Tessa: Maintenance work...
She presses a car alarm button and a car beeps.
Shadow had teleported toward Doll and found her hiding in his room: Doll…
Doll looked up at him, scared and confused.
Shadow: I’m not gonna hurt you, don’t worry. You want to stay in my bed tonight?
Doll nodded: Yes, I’d like that.
Shadow: Alright, just lay here and stay low for a while. We need to let this all blow over, okay?
Doll: Okay.
Shadow laid in bed next to her and the two fell asleep with Shadow’s cyan Absolute Solver turning off lights and locking doors.

Notes:

Comments are much appreciated just so you know, see you all when camping comes along for Cabin Fever! That’s all Folks!

Chapter 5: MURDER DRONES (X): Cabin Fever

Summary:

After finding a book the group goes to a camp to uncover secrets about Uzi’s and Doll’s mother and Doll herself. What they don’t realize is that this camping trip is about to go terribly wrong, a classic horror trope for the woods!

Notes:

Thanks for checking this out yet again! I hope you all enjoy!

Also, fernstsrheart, thanks for the OC request, I hope I did her justice.

This may be my worst part yet so let me know and also request any OC’s if you want them to join in!

With that said, onto the campgrounds!

Cabin Fever

The colony was dark and quiet right now as everyone was asleep. No sound other than mechanical whirring was active right now but there was some activity taking place. Doll was curled up against Shadow asleep, not realizing what she was doing.
Shadow stirred awake and saw her to his side: Cute.
He stroked her hair until her Absolute Solver pointed her cleaver at him and he quickly moved his hand back. He had gotten the message that they weren’t on physical affection turns.

Meanwhile I was laying in my bed scrolling through a book on something I found in Doll’s house on a sneaky visit. He had something in it that was quite important.

D: Hmm. Okay, so Doll and Uzi’s parents were here at one point. I should tell Uzi.

Elsewhere, in a place the Colony wasn’t quite in was a worker drone with a cyan glowing visor and brightly pink colored pigtails, named Candy. She was getting yelled out by her dad.

Candy’s Dad: First your grades start slipping, you don’t do any chores around here, and you constantly talk about that random purple haired girl who keeps causing trouble. That’s enough! Do you understand me?

Candy: Yes dad!

Candy’s Dad: See, I don’t think you do. We’ve had this talk many times and you keep doing the same thing. Perhaps this will help remind you.

The father threw some wire around his daughter and pressed a button and she was electrocuted for a good few seconds. He brought it down to a lower voltage and yanked on her right pigtail, bringing her head close to his.

Candy’s Dad: Now you’ll understand and do what I say, right?

Candy nodded at her abusive father and then he sent her into her room where she sat on her bed looking at the wall

Candy: He doesn’t hate me. He’s just protecting me, even if it kind of hurts a lot. I’m sure he has some good reasons.

Candy fell asleep for the rest of the night while the rest of the Colony stayed silent. Somewhere in the Colony were N and V hanging from the ceiling. They were close to Uzi’s room.

V: You know, it would be so easy to go kill some workers right now.

N: V, we already killed enough to keep us satisfied.
V: But it would be so easy. At least we could look for that Russian drone.

N: Uzi said we need to stay low until she has a plan.
V: I doubt she actually has one. You believe in her way too much, y’know?

N: Do not! Uzi knows what she's doing, let’s just give her some time.

V didn’t respond and simply closed herself in her wings and went into her sleep mode. She knew that if they kept digging that they would uncover a past she didn’t want to think about. It could hurt them all and she didn’t want that for N. No matter how he felt for her anymore.

Suddenly Uzi walked in with a blaring light from her flashlight. She was chuckling madly and I was behind her with a book in hand.

Uzi: Are you suckers ready to go camping?

N: Oooo! I’d love to!

V: What does this have to deal with Doll?

Uzi: Her parents were associated with this lab place in the woods and that’s where we are going.

V: And where getting there how?

Uzi: Convince Lizzy to get the teacher to get us a bus ride to the place.

V: Ugh! Fine!

All was said and done and together me, Uzi, N, V, and Shadow took a ride on the bus toward the campgrounds. N and V technically wher flying over the bus while me, Shadow, and Uzi dealt with all the other drones.

There was this very vibrant and bubbly drone with cyan eyes watching us. As soon as I turned toward her direction, she look away. When I turned back to window, I saw her reflection staring back, kinda creepy.

Shadow: Dude, you know about Doll being in my room, right?

D: Yeah, what about it?

Shadow: Well I found out she does not like physical affection.

D: Yeah, I think it’s too early for that. You two were prom dates, not full on relationship stuff yet. But hey, you’re getting there.

Shadow: Yeah, I hope we don’t run into that purple thing while where here.

D: Why would he come all the way to this snowy forest? Is he writing a report on the camping habits of kids that we don’t know about?

Shadow: Shut up man.

The school bus pulls up to Camp 98.7.

Driver reins the bus to a halt and calms her: Whoa, easy! Good girl.

The students inside exit the bus.

Ronathon: Do you ever wonder why-

He was reciting Red vs Blue I think but that was until he got shoved to the ground by Emily, who was pushed by another student.

Emily: Hey!

She picks her book up and leaves as more students exit.

Thad: No kidding!

He and Lizzy share a laugh as they exit the bus talking about something.

Uzi and us are the last ones off. She looks down at a couple pairs of collars she wears on her right hand as she plays a clip in her visor as a reminder.

Khan: After the core collapsed... I... didn't notice the collars.

Khan is looking at an old photo of him and Nori, along with a group of friends.

Khan: Only your mom being a catch!

No response from Uzi, who is staring into a room filled with old papers and storage stuff.

Khan sighs: She was always all, "Build doors against the coming sky demons!" "A singularity awakens." "Look at this cool S I can draw!"

He sighs again: Turns out, I'm not who either of you needed.

Khan closes the door: Just... Be safe, okay?
He hands Uzi the collars as the flashback ends. Uzi puts one collar in her pocket, and the other goes around her neck. She at least knew that her dad knew actually did care for her and her mom and he didn’t love doors and just doors.

Braidon: Uh, teacher, what is this field trip?

Teacher: Yeah, Uzi's idea. Ask her.

Braidon scoffs: Who?

Uzi: I've sat next to you for years.

Uzi's speaking startles everyone, minus that stalker girl. Shadow rolls his eyes at their pathetic nature.

Uzi: Bite me! I asked to go alone. He's mad at your test scores.

Teacher: No year-end bonus, no learning.

Braidon: So, we're just unsupervised? What the-!?

At that moment, V and N come crashing down in front of them. N turns to them menacingly, ready to kill them and ingest their warm, sweet oil...

N become jolly all of a sudden: Welcome, campers! Let's sound off!

He gets ready to do roll-call, but instead begins to count: One, two...

He stops. A student gets shot at by V and falls over, dead, shocking the others but they quickly went along.

Students: In sync, and not wanting to get shot at as well

THREE/FOUR/FIVE/SIX/SEVEN/EIGHT/NINE/TEN/ELEVEN!
N: That's everyone!

N whispers to V: Minus one...

N speak loudly to the students again: We got so many distracting activities planned, so no sneaking off to investigate stuff!

He slyly gestures to Uzi: To the bunks!

He leads the way... Except no one's following him. He looks over at Uzi, then back to the students.

Thad: Sounds good, N!

Lizzy: Anything for my bestie!

They join N and V, but no one else does. They were trying at least to help the plan out.

Uzi: Y-Yeah, they're like my friends, too, so... It's cool.

Everyone flees in a panic at Uzi's mere presence. Shadow grumbles under his voice and begins walking toward them.

Emily takes N's hand: You can be our friend, little guy!

Darren pokes V's eye: Poor things defective?

She grabs his hand, then looks back at Uzi. Her gaze was a piercing one full of rage.

V: Hmph. Nah, just full of love. This one's a pilot.

Rebecca giggles to herself: Wow, a pilot.

N looks back at Uzi, who gestures that she will go her own way and that N should get everyone else to the campsite. She gives a thumbs up, N nods, and Uzi heads into the woods, alone.

Shadow: I’m going to stick around, try and keep a low body count and all. Happy hunting you two.

D: Yeah, good luck with that lot. I can smell the Chaos from here.

Candy followed us, not to our knowledge though other than slight footsteps.

Uzi continues her trek through the woods until she reaches an abandoned building. She uses her powers to open the lock that almost crushes a bug and then we venture inside. She picks up a Worker hat, then tosses it to the side as she examines her surroundings. Books and bottles clutter the floor, two Worker uniforms are hanging up, furniture are laying on their sides, and a wall has been blasted open. A calendar on the wall catches her eye and she moves it over towards her. It shows a dog on the top half, and the bottom half shows the month of Seramorris. An important note reads, "EVACUATE ALL DOGS! Just in case something bad happens, idk." Two additional notes underneath read, "Cool, we did that. That's canon." and "ALSO, ALL DOGS ARE IMMORTAL NOW! THANKS TO SCIENCE!"

Uzi sighs in relief.

D: That’s great news!

Suddenly, a noise grabs her attention. She looks around, and gets spooked when she spots what appears to be a human hand reaching from around a corner.

D: What the hell was that!?

She tries to steady her flashlight when she hears a scream coming from outside. She heads to the window to find... The other campers rowing their canoes on the lake. Her face instantly falters and meanwhile, someone is staring down at us from the ceiling.

Candy: What are you looking for, banished one?

Meanwhile Rebecca speaks to N: So, my friend wants to know if you'd kill her family. And if you're single.

N pretty much didn’t care about that and he was also kind of freaked out. Plus, he had another girl in mind.

Darren as he and Thad carry a canoe with V and Lizzy in it: Make way for the canoe train!

V: Sabotage, minions! Plan X!

The boys kick N's canoe and head off while laughing, only to slip and drop the canoe, Lizzy falling out, and V flying in the air. Emily falls out of N's canoe.

Rebecca: I CAN'T SWIM!

She almost falls out, but N catches her: Oh! Hehe... Thank you.

N: Close one.

Shadow was off to the distance watching, he really wanted to be there with Doll next to him but that would be a huge problem. Instead he texted with her through his visor. He said that he wished she was her and she responded saying that she wishes she was there too because it’s boring just sitting there.
Back at the abandoned building, Uzi watches this when the glass window suddenly shatters, caused by her right eye reaching high temperatures. She tries to reach inside her backpack. It contains a rotten robotic hand as she has a brief flashback to her time at Doll's house.

V: Tick tock...

She giggles as she makes her presence known.

Uzi: H-Hey, s-stupid... idiot... Uh, weren't you just-

V: You said this camp would help us catch that red-eyed Doll freak. How about more "explore-y", less "watch from window creepy".

Uzi swipes her hand away: Working on it. Just... so glad you guys fit right in. Super cool.

V raises her tail behind Uzi sensing the sarcasm.

V: Better to stay distant, though. Don'tcha think?

She looks over at Uzi's backpack: Since I'll have to kill you next?

She scratches Uzi's eye and prepares to leave: N's made friends with rocks, by the way. He'll move on just fine.

D: V! Stop this mess! You both are working for the same goal, why do you want to kill Uzi so badly, is it because you like N?

V pauses and stares in shock at me: Just do your job, idiots.

She makes her exit as Uzi's eye repairs itself. She sighs as she goes over to get her backpack, only to see it crushed a bug.

Uzi: Sorry, buddy. Gotcha good.

She uses her powers to repair the bug back to good health. The little insect wanders away and turns back to Uzi, who salutes it as it heads under the floorboards. Uzi uses her powers to lift the wood up, revealing a rotting, deceased Worker Drone. She lifts up a few papers: Two drawings, and a JCJenson Program Admission Notice. She flips over the last one to reveal a part of a Murder Drone's claw pierced through the side that was otherwise supposed to be intentionally left blank. She pulls the claw piece out as another bug climbs onto her hand. She squishes it, but it narrowly dodges and climbs her other hand.
D: These papers, the Murder Drones, or some form of them, have been here before us. This was place holds more secrets the deeper we look into it.
Candy: Yes, secrets, and what secrets do you hide, Uzi? I would very much like to know what else you have to surprise me and the others with.
I look up thinking I hear a voice but I don’t see anything and turn toward the robot bug and Uzi. My mind was now on alert.

Insect: >:( (It scans her.) WELCOME BACK [002]. HOW CAN I HELP YOU TODAY?
-SUBMIT TIME CARD
-PTO REQUEST
-REGISTER TORTURE CHAMBER COMPLAINT
-END MY SUFFERING (PROMO OFFER DISCONTINUED)
-CALL ELEVATOR

Uzi: ...Elevator?

-Elevator?
Insect: PLEASE PLACE ME ON PROXIMITY READER (CABIN FEVER LABS).

Uzi: Where's that? What are you?

-Wear his hat?
-What argue?
Insect: INVALID RESPONSE.

Unbeknownst to Uzi and me, Doll's ghostly form disappears behind us...

Back with the campers. N fires multiple arrows at a target's center until it catches fire.

N: Ah, sorry! Did I... cheat?

He looks back at the others. No answer, but another camper gets shot at and falls over. V jumps down.

V: Tch. You didn't even kill everyone here. Check this out.

She gets ready to fire an arrow at... The campers, who nervously clap for her and N.

Shadow walks over and pulls V to the side: Listen, I know it’s in your nature to go kill innocents but you need to draw the line at kids, you know, like you and me.

V: Just consider yourself lucky I don’t kill you.
Shadow: I’m serious now, you have to stop.

V sighs and then lowers her voice to a whisper: The only reason I’m killing them all is because one of them are respecting N.

Shadow: I understand but there are ways to handle things without killing, you have to understand that, okay.

V: I understand, now get out of my face.
Shadow backs away getting her message as clear as the day.

Meanwhile, Uzi is making her way back to the campsite.

Uzi whispers to get N's attention: Psst. Hey.
N looks behind him. He sees Uzi, with her new bug friend.

Insect: HELLO :) DON't TELL V I'M HERE

N yells, thus indirectly letting V know she's here: Uzi, get on out here! (Insect: :0) This troop's a team!

Realizing he may have gotten V's attention: WAIT, NO, INCLUSIVE REFLEXES!

I facepalm in annoyance. I suddenly hear footsteps behind me and I turn around and see nothing.
V looks back

Insect: D:!! (It flees.)

Uzi comes out of hiding: Uh, hehe, hey, everyone.

Everyone screams at her showing up. Braidon accidentally shoots an arrow in her direction.
However, she uses her powers to stop it... Only for her temperature to rise again and morph the arrow into a fleshy, bloody mess.

Shadow: Braidon! Watch where you’re shooting!

D: Uzi…

Candy: This just got good.

Uzi nervously freaks out: Um, ignore all this! Uh... I was just... Going...

Oil shoots out from the student's corpse like a fountain: I LIVE IN THE WOODS NOW!

She retreats back into the woods and I follow. Shadow was about to follow but he saw that V was ready to let loose so he helped N keeping her there.

Braidon: ...Who was that?

Shadow smacks Braidon in the face with a stick before heading towards V.

Uzi retreats into a nearby cabin and barricades the door. She uses her powers to force all the doors and windows shut. She reaches into her backpack and tries to grab out an arm, only for a nearby clock's ticking to drive her crazy, to the point she has to use her powers to destroy it and the lights. Except for one. Uzi attempts to destroy it, but everything around her turns red as a fleshy abomination manifests…

D: Uzi! Look at me, calm down. It’s, agh!

I clutch my head and slam it into the ground. My green Absolute Solver glows and pulls pieces of wood into a circle around me: God, what is happening to us?

Meanwhile, N is trying to prevent V from attempting to harm Uzi.

N: V, we can't hurt Uzi!

V: We do our jobs, and that thing leaves us-

N: I don't know what you're talking about because you won't tell me!

He frees himself from V's grasp using his claw: What're you so afraid of!?

Shadow: V! Calm down, Uzi isn’t a threat!

V: I'm not afraid...!

N: I am! Uzi is! She's a kid, like us, V! What is WRONG with you!?

No response. N sighs and tosses his clipboard at her.

N: Look after the campers.

He flies off in pursuit of Uzi.

Lizzy: Hot.

V is unamused by her comments: Not hot? You're too good for him.

Shadow: Idiots.

He follows on foot knowing that Uzi needs them and the sooner they find Uzi, the better chance she can have against V.

V turns to the other campers.

V: Do whatever you want.

She stomps off. Rebecca then gestures to Darren that they should sneak off.

Darren and Rebecca are wandering in the woods and Candy is watching them from the tree line: Oh this is the plot of one of them horror movies, I should warn them but at the same time, Uzi could use the practice. As long as that green drone doesn’t interfere.

Darren: We need to sneak this far just to make out?

Rebecca: It's about mood, Darren.

Eventually, they reach a small, abandoned, creepy cabin. A small glow flashes from inside it.

Rebecca: Nice.

Darren: Get it now!

Darren attempts to push the door open, but is unable to due to furniture blocking the way. He tries to turn the lights on, to no avail. After finally pushing the door open wide enough to enter, a flashlight rolls by itself on the ground in front of them, flickering on and off. Darren goes to pick it up...

SLAM!

The cabin door slams close by itself, startling the duo. Behind them, Uzi, hiding in the shadows, laughs like a madwoman and spreads wings out as she prepares to kill and feast upon them. The two move away until they bump into me. I had a feral looking snarl to my face, saliva dropped down.
Uzi leaped forward and feasted upon Rebecca as I tore through Darren but then the two of us began to fight each other with Uzi slamming me through the door and into a tree. I snarl and kick her off before flying upward and pushing her into the snow. The two of us screeched at one another, that was until a rock hit my visor.

That stalker had finally shown herself: Leave Uzi alone! Monster!

I snarled at her and then flew toward her direction and she started running. Uzi stared after me and then took flight to catch up, wanting to finish our fight.

Meanwhile, N flies down and finds another cabin. He enters and looks over to see what appears to be some kind of control desk with a monitor hanging overhead that's displaying static. He goes over to investigate. He tries to turn another monitor on, only for it to fry up. He goes over to the static-playing monitor, where he notices a VHS tape underneath, it says ZOMBIE DRONES. As soon as he touches it, he begins to have brief flashbacks. One involving an unknown Drone, one with a severed arm, and another involving a black hole. He backs away in horror.

Elsewhere, Uzi continues eating the remains of her victims when she suddenly begins to vomit. She looks out the door as her temperature rises again. She goes feral again and her vomiting has distracted me from the other girl and I fly back toward her but she takes off and takes her flight away. I shriek and follow along.

Back with the other campers, Braidon is telling a spoopy story.

Braidon: But her warranty wasn't expired... IT NEVER EXISTEEEEED!

Ronathon: It's scary, 'cause it's like-

Emily: Aren't you guys worried about Darren and Rebecca?

Ronathon: -Real.

Emily: Shouldn't they be back from their... immoral make out session by n-

She screams as she notices an arm has grabbed her ankle. It's Rebecca, who crawls towards them while coughing. She lacks a bottom half.

Braidon: Rebecca!?

Lizzy: Who did this to you!?

Rebecca coughs out oil: Don't... remember name…Super unpopular...

Ronathon: Descriptive clues, man!

Rebecca as she dies: Purple... eyes... Hot Topic...

Braidon: Uh...

Lizzy: I feel like I remember someone like that...

Ronathon: From our class?

All of a sudden, the campfire vanishes. They look behind them as they hear maniacal laughter. It's Uzi.

Braidon: Ohhh... You...?

The campers shrug in unison. Suddenly, his head explodes due to Uzi's Absolute Solver powers.

Ronathon: S-S-SPLIT UP!

Emily: I think I've read that's good!

The remaining three campers flee for their lives. The book opens by itself to show that, despite what Emily says, it said That’s not What the Book said.

Ronathon is running in the woods when he trips, falls down a hill, and smacks into a tree. He decides to hide behind it after spotting Uzi fly to the top of another tree in pursuit. Behind three, he looks back. Uzi's gone. He sighs in relief... Not noticing Uzi's tail next to him, which he misses when he looks in its direction.

Ronathon: Huh?

The book Emily was reading falls on his head. He picks it up as he hears Uzi giggling. He slowly looks up.

Ronathon fears for his life: Does it at least have pictures...?

Uzi: It doesn't. I checked.

Elsewhere, Lizzy hears Ronathon's scream coming from the distance. She stops to look around and spots Emily.

Lizzy: Oh, thank Robo-God, Final Girl!

It turns out Uzi had already killed Emily and is playing with her corpse. She snaps her head off.

Lizzy: Um... Clashing?

Uzi uses her Absolute Solver to hold Lizzy in a choking position. She makes her way over to her, but is blocked by V. V swipes at Uzi, who falls.

I suddenly fly downward and slam into Uzi. My claws pin her wings down as my face inches closer to her. Saliva hit the snow and my tail poised to rip her neck off. That was until some sticks flew into me and knocked me away.

Shadow: So much for a low kill count. Alright, does anyone know what’s wrong with them?

V and Lizzy shrug and Candy is off to the side shaking her head.

Shadow: Predictable.

V pulls her blades out at the ready to dispatch Uzi and Lizzy just stares at her.

V: Killing her, not saving you.

Lizzy as she passes out: Okay, mom.

V gets a claw ready which Uzi snarls at. She seemed to be returning to normal, only slightly.

Uzi: V... Please...!

V: New body, same horrors. Huh, Cyn?

D: Cyn?

Uzi: I... don't know... who that is... Can I... talk to N...?

V: Tch. I'll make sure you can't.

Just as V goes in for the kill, Uzi's tail grabs her and flings her to the side. Uzi pins V to a tree as the latter tries to fire at the former. V misses and barely avoids hitting Lizzy.

Lizzy: Ugh.

BOOM! Lizzy goes flying off behind a log and lands next to Candy who helps her up.

Candy: Lizzy!

Lizzy: Oh, hi. What’s up?

Candy: I’ve just been following Uzi around, she’s fascinating.

Lizzy: Well, not that fascinating.

Candy: But she is, we learn something new about her everyday it seems!

Lizzy: Whatever. What’s up with D?

Candy: The green one? I don’t know, I’m not paying attention to him.

Shadow kicks me in my face and then uses his solver to move a heap of snow onto me as a violently tear and claw out. I shriek and he hits me across the face with a log which resets me back to normal, a normal mind anyways.

D: Ow! My head hurts!

Shadow: Well of course it hurts!

D: How many did I kill?

Shadow: No clue. Maybe one, I didn’t see anything.

D: Uzi?

Shadow: Still on a violent rampage.

D: Let’s rock.

We both moved to intercept Uzi and tackled her to the ground but she proved faster than us and used her tail to smack V away so she could use her wings to flick us off. I slid back onto the snow and into a tree while Shadow leaped up onto a branch.
Uzi looked up at him and Shadow smiled as he shook the tree causing snow to fall down toward Uzi. It covered her but she had quickly moved away and then she ran straight through the tree which sliced it down.

Candy: Wow! She’s very strong, but a tad insane.

Lizzy: Oh now you say she’s insane.

Uzi then pins V to the ground, slices off her tail, and prepares to kill her with it with a twisted smile on her eyes. Mine and Shadow's eyes widened in fear while Lizzy looked worried as she took a step forward. Luckily help was at hand.

N grabs Uzi: Whoops. Easy there, buddy.

Uzi sticks the tail into his hand and then she goes back to normal mind: Haha, ow. Up we go!
He tosses Uzi into the air, removes V's tail, and puts his hand in his mouth.

N while muffled: What did I say about antagonizing her?

V pouts: You always take her side!

N flies up after Uzi followed by me. We soared through the air while Shadow looked over at V.

Shadow: Need help?

V: I’m fine, thank you very much!

Lizzy gave a sigh of relief. V was still the same and was completely fine. Candy walked over with Lizzy.

V: Ugh. Get back to the bus, I’ve had too many problems today.

Lizzy: You got it.

Candy: Fine.

Shadow healed V up with his Absolute Solver before she smacked his hand.

V: Keep that black magic away from me.

Shadow held his hands up in defense: Alright alright, calm down.

Above them Uzi used her wings to stop herself from flying any higher. She begins to fall back down as N appears next to her right and me on her left.
N: Uzi, you want to tell me what's the matter?

He takes a therapist position. His face contorted with worry and sympathy.

Uzi: No. Don't look.

She hides herself in her wings.

Uzi: I'm gross and eating people and stuff…

D: Not true! You look great, I’m the hideous one.

I laughed at my joke and hoped that Uzi would like it too. She didn’t like it, at least she didn’t laugh about it.

N: Yeah, we'll figure that part out...

He opens her wings up to see her face: But, you know that's not what I mean.

Uzi tears up: Are you, like... gonna leave me?

N: Uzi?

Uzi: Never mind, it's stupid.

She continues hiding in her wings.

N sighs softly to himself: Before we met, scary stuff was actually... pretty scary. And tonight too, 'cause you weren't with me to make it fun, somehow.

Uzi reveals her face at this.

N: I kind of forgot what that was like...

Uzi comes out of hiding: Same.

D: Ditto over here!

N starts using Uzi's tail as a puppet: Then we'll stick together!

Uzi chuckles and takes the tail back: Don't touch it.
She changes the accent of her tail-puppet to a British one: Plus my voice is more like-

They crash on the ground. V gets ready for a fight, only to see N carrying Uzi in his arms like a bride making V look on with a scornful expression. I land down clumsily and crash into a tree.

D: That’s the fifth tree I’ve crashed into today!

Shadow rolls his eyes and V somewhat laughs at that.

Uzi: Accent was a bad idea anyway. N, I'm... sorry.

N: Eh, not like you killed anyone.

Uzi: Oh no, I definitely-

N: Kidding! Just avoid another whole spire. Baby steps. Together?

Uzi and N share an embrace. V puts her claws away as Lizzy appears next to her.

Lizzy: Ew.

V: Don't patronize me.

Lizzy: What? I think it's gross all by myself. God, you're a diva lately.

V: Just get back to this bus.

The bus gets ready to leave the camp with all remaining campers in their seats.

Driver: Hiya, hiya!

The bus drives off. Inside, the teacher is going over the list of students.

Teacher turns back to V: So, missing some campers here...

V doesn't respond. She knows what really happened to the missing students. She looks over at Lizzy, next to her. She looks back at Uzi and N. They are both sound asleep, with Uzi resting her head on N's shoulder. Uzi's little insect friend hides in her hat. V groans at the sight and looks back at Teacher.

V sighs: Yo, I get hungry, idiot.

Teacher: No name calling. Just a question.

V sits back in her seat while Lizzy and Candy chat with Thad from across the other seat. Me and Shadow remain silent for a bit.

D: So we had a stalker watching us the whole time.
Shadow: Candy?

D: That her name? Well yeah, her. It was kinda creepy.

Shadow: Not as creepy as your whole transformation though.

D: Well obviously.

Shadow: You sure you have that under control?

D: No. I’m not but I’ll try to keep it from happening.

Shadow: Alright, just don’t kill our friends.

D: Of course not.

The Sun rises and Uzi's hand starts to burn. N notices and reaches to move it out of the way as their hands briefly hold. N quickly, silently lets go without waking Uzi up. He looks over at the Zombie Drones VHS tape he brought with him. The thought of what could be on the tape worries him.
The sun begins to scorch my face. I hiss and duck under the seat and Shadow looks down at me with pity.

Shadow: So you're a vampire now?

D: Shut up.

We arrived back as quickly as possible and since it was about to be day time, the Murder Drones had to stay in the Colony again.

Candy: Hey, Lizzy? Mind if I stay over at your place tonight?

Lizzy: I was actually going to stay at Thad’s place but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind the extra company. Won’t your dad be like super mad and hit you and stuff?

Candy: Nah, he loves me.

Her father clearly did not love her and Lizzy thought to herself, better to keep her away from him than get tortured again. Luckily she was oblivious to the abuse her dad gave her.

Shadow retreated back into his room and locked the door. He immediately received a cold stare from Doll’s red eyes. She just stared at him for a while.

Doll: Fun trip?

Shadow: More laboring than fun. Girls sauntered over N, boys sauntered over V. I was bored and Uzi and D were stalked and turned into Solver beast.

Doll: Oh. Sounds about right.

Shadow: You act like this doesn’t shock you.

Doll: It does but I just am not bothered by it at this point.

Shadow laid down on his bed and sighed: It’s been a long night.

Doll: Tell me about it. Well at least you're okay and back.

Doll lightly held hands with Shadow which made him blush and go still. He turned over and Doll smiled.

Doll: Don’t push your luck, Shadow.

V wasn’t exactly thrilled with staying with Uzi being a murderous beast and obviously N was totally fine with that so he and Uzi slept in her room with him hanging from the ceiling and V waited outside on the ceiling before I looked at her out there.

D: Wanna sleep in my room?

V: No.

D: Alright. But just so you know, Uzi didn’t mean for that to happen. I really tried to fight it too, it was hard.

V didn’t say anything for a while and then turned towards me: I know why it’s hard.

D: Really? Also, who is Cyn?

V froze up for a moment: Don’t look into it. It’s not that important.

With that V pushed her way into my room and then hanged by her tail on the ceiling. I then went to sleep as well. A voice laughed in my head, one oddly creepy but calming. The Colony fell into a slumber.

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Chapter 6: MURDER DRONES (X): Intermission

Summary:

When D and Uzi learn to fly as a coping method to their nightmare inducing trauma, chaos ensures as usual.

Notes:

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INTERMISSION

A teddy bear sits on a white camping bunk bed. Two tanned camping hats were hung up in the wall and a chilling breeze came through as the door swung open to reveal it was snowing outside. The trees were still and ever watching.

An oil splatter coats the teddy bear and the bed and a dead worker drone is getting torn into by two clawed hands. Purple eyes were looking down and the hands reached and plucked the core out from the worker. It was heart shaped but not for long as the dark shadowy figure ate into the heart.

Insane and troubled laughter echoed in the cabin as a screen showed a stabilizing temperature progress bar with two error symbols beside it. The laughing began to glitch out as critical error signals covered the screen as the laughing got worse.

The hand of the figure was coated in thick oil and then the figure's mouth licked over the oil. Then the mouth took the whole hand into her mouth and sucked the oil off, all while laughing. After that she tore the dead worker's arms off and ate it whole.
The laughing briefly stopped as the figure fell onto her arms and spewed oil from her mouth. The figure was crying and then went back to laughing. She looked down at her hands and then turned toward a mirror to reveal fleshy wings and the purple Absolute Solver symbol that Uzi had.

The screen went back and everything went dead silent. All was dark and then a voice began to pick up. The voice was then loud and clear.

???: Get hacked, idiot.

Uzi woke up from her nightmare screaming and panicking. Her gasps were loud and she clutched her face in fear. A loading screen then appeared in her face as she began to mull the nightmare over.
She looked at her hands and saw them to be clean and pristine. All was normal and fine with her body. Hanging down from her ceiling was N, who she had allowed to stay in her room as V took to D’s room for the last nights since the Cabin adventure they all went on.

Uzi sighed and leaned back before yelling out at no one in particular: Oh come on! Again!

She sighed and fell back into her pillow with crossed arms. Her screen flashed a progress bar on virus removal.

Uzi: Well now since I’ve had my daily dose of nightmare fuel, bye bye, robo Satan.

Her screen flashed a red text telling her the virus removal wasn’t working. It then decided to spite her by saying lmao in her face.

Uzi with her Absolute Solver sign: I’m gonna blow a freaking fuse! Are you kidding me!

She was glitching with her voice. She grasped at the air in a rage. She then had let out a low sigh which woke N up. He looked over to Uzi as she hurried her head into a pillow.

Uzi: Screw this, I’ll install a firewall tomorrow. It’s too late for this.

N then hummed to himself as an idea popped into his head. He then snapped his figures when it came into his head. He had a good idea to help Uzi out.
The next door I was having trouble with sleeping too. I had a similar nightmare but when I woke up, I slammed my face into the wall, slightly cracking my visor. I repaired it and groaned.

I: This is getting old.

V: Tell me about it. If you keep waking up, doing, well, that, I’ll never get to sleep and maybe get a corpse to eat.

D: Very funny. So were you sleeping well?
V: As well as I could in this place.

Next door to us Doll and Shadow were holding hands. Both staring at the ceiling. Ever since the Cabin adventure the two have been making the most of their bonding together and it has now evolved into this.

Shadow: Been sleeping well?

Doll: Yes, less nightmares. Almost none unlike Uzi and D.

Shadow: Yeah, N texted me that he has something planned to help them out. Soon as night hits we’ll help them out.

Doll: How?

Shadow: Flying.

When night had hit the group of 5 had gone outside where the huge light of the planet near them gave a good view to what they were doing. N flipped a whiteboard and laughed.

N: Ba-dum-daaaa!

The whiteboard showed that we were going to do some flying lessons. Uzi stood up from her chair with a face of pure joy. I stayed in my seat showing off a pleased smile.

Uzi: Flying lessons?

D: Sweet!

V: “With N and V” I’m sorry, I never signed up for this.

V threw a disembodied arm off into the snow with an eye roll. Uzi stared at V with a dead expression. She was unhappy V had to spoil the fun.

Shadow: Come on, you have to be like that now?

N quickly moved over to Uzi and crouched down to V’s eye level: Well I thought we could help Uzi and D with their nightmare inducing emotional baggage.

Uzi: Wait, are you trying to like, theraprise me?

Uzi curled up slightly and looked worried.

D: Yeah, I’m not fond of therapist stuff either.

V: Lord knows you two need the counseling.

I held my mouth agape and Shadow moved his hands out.

Shadow: Are you serious right now?

Uzi: Bite me! I’m fine! I uh I’m gah, just, shut up!

N crouched in front of Uzi with a kind and gentle smile: I just think we need to get you two acquainted with your more bloodthirsty sides.

Shadow: Yeah. Better control means less killing innocents.

N: Exactly. The more control, the lower your body count will be against your will, y’know?

I nod in understanding: Yeah, makes enough sense.

Uzi: I mean…

V has a threat detection pop up on her screen and then smiled a little violently with a cruel twist: You know, if we really want to deal with our little emo girl problem we could blow her brains out!

V placed her arm cannon at Uzi’s head with a little giggle.

Shadow as he smacks her arm back: What’s wrong with you?!

N: V!

D: Keep your cannon away from her!

Uzi had a shocked face and stared at V with shaky eyes. N quickly snatched V by her neck and pulled her behind the whiteboard. I place a hand on Uzi’s leg to try and comfort her.

D: She won’t lay a hand on you, I’ll make sure of it.

Shadow: God, again with the corny statements! But he’s right, we won’t let V mess with you.

Uzi: Thanks…

We all turned our eyes toward the whiteboard as we could hear N and V whispering to one another.

N whispered to V: We’re not hurting Uzi!

V: Why not?

N: Shhhhh!

V growled and then bit N’s arm. N quickly pulled his arm away.

N: Have some compassion. She’s clearly scared of herself! She’s been having night terrors ever since the field trip incident.

Uzi was hearing this and she looked just annoyed but also found it admirable how much N was caring for her.

N: The same goes for D.

V giggles and pulls her claws out with a toothy smile: I know, his yelling and her screaming is like white noise to me. It helps me sleep like a baby~.

N: I refuse to believe you actually feel that way.

V scoffs at him for being so persistent.

N: We’re the only people that can help them. Come on.

V snaps at N with an accusing finger: You have a screw loose if you think I’m going to help a few lost causes.

Uzi began to hide herself in her hoodie which me and Shadow felt empathy for. We both kept an arm on her shoulder, an attempt at comforting her that only slightly worked.

N: Fine, if not for Uzi, then do it for me. Please?

V rolled her eyes at him. That was about to get her, she did want N to be happy but she didn’t want to give in by helping out Uzi of all drones.

Uzi walked over to them and leaned over the whiteboard: Are the grownups done talking? ‘Sooner we get started, the sooner I can snipe targets from an unsuspecting height.

D: And the sooner I’ll be able to fly without crashing into a tree or a wall.

Uzi mischievously began to snicker and I smiled at myself joking on myself.

Uzi: And y’know fix my brain and stuff.

N smiled at that and then turned to V to give her the puppy dog eyes treatment using an actual golden retriever puppy on his visor to convince her. V groaned.

V: Oh my God. FINE, I’ll do it.

Uzi snickered at that before it turned into a scream as V spun the board around and Uzi got sent flying into my chest and pushing me into the snow.
V: Let’s get this over with.

After some time we all had made it up to the top of the corpse spire where some insect robots crawled among all the dead workers.

Uzi looked down and took a step back as the wind blew at her hair: Uhhh…

N suddenly snuck up behind her and picked her up: And scoop.

Uzi panicked and flailed: Oh my robo-god!

N smiled down at her: First we’ll try the baby bird method.

D: Wait? You mean…

I looked down and then took a step backwards.

N: Yep, toss you off and let your instincts do the rest.

Uzi: N, I’m—

N: And up you go!

N threw the now screaming Uzi into the air and off the spire. She began to fall.

D: Uzi!

I jumped down with my wings splayed and used my claws to launch off from the corpses and I fell down until I wrapped my arms around Uzi and shielded her.

D: This is gonna hurt.

Shadow: Not your brightest idea, N.

V: If they die and go splat, I call dibs on their corpse.

Shadow: They’ll make it.

N: They’ll be fine.

Uzi: Still falling. STILL FALLING!

N: Or not.

V laughs darkly to herself and N suddenly launches off the spire after us. We were about to hit the ground when I kicked Uzi further up into the air before I myself plummeted into the ground. My arm popped off and my wing was bent unnaturally but I was alive and Uzi was safe as N held her.
N looked down on me, worried but that went away when he watched me fix myself.

D: Ow N!

N laughs nervously: Okay, let’s try a different approach.

We watched different things take place as V and N showed us out to fly while Shadow cheered us on. V would twirl upward and fly mid air which me and Uzi had to replicate but it went terribly as I crashed through an apartment window and Uzi got her head stuck in a lamp post.

Next up N had some light up sticks courtesy of Shadow’s Absolute Solver power to make a landing strip. We both took off and glided along with a few flaps. Uzi was doing pretty good which N was happy about and he held his arms out and Uzi crashed into him, knocking him back. I flapped upward a little too high and then dropped down into a heap of snow. Shadow gave me a thumbs up. As N was knocked out and Uzi was excited about how she did, V actually chuckled in joy at the sight.

Then Uzi and I had to match up our speed so V had us strap rope to her and around us and she then flew off with us using some afterburners. We made it upward and kept flying but not only were we dizzy but we also lost our hair. Uzi’s hair fell into V’s head leaving Uzi bald. V laughed mockingly at her while N joined in on the fun and gave his hair to Uzi and wore her hair. V even got a selfie with us while Shadow smiled from below adding some snowfall to make the selfie magical.

We had pretty much finished and Uzi sucked on a straw as she sucked the oil from a box while I was on the side of a building talking with Shadow. N was checking things off on his checklist such as conquering Uzi’s fears and acting like he knew what he was doing. The main priority was for Uzi to be happy which me and Shadow couldn’t agree more with.

N: Alright, you guys should be good for your first flying test! Are you two ready?

V shoved Uzi which she got mad at before then smiling realizing she was playing with her. Uzi dropped the box of oil and did a twirl in the air before landing down and smiling: Born ready!

Shadow: Cute.

I flew beside Uzi: Yep. We’re absolutely ready for this!

We both flew toward the training course and we looked at it with confidence. N was under Uzi, helping her stay upright and flying smoothly while I was doing decent by myself.

N: I’m gonna let go now, okay? Just keep going. You're doing great!

Uzi: Roger that. Let’s go D!

N released her and we both turned towards the course. We flew through three hoops and twirled over the last one. We then dodged the leaning power lines. Then we came up on the huge spinning turbines. Uzi smiled confidently and flew through the blades while I did a spin through them, my foot getting nicked from it but that was healed over quickly.

N: Yeah! You got this! Go, go, go!

Shadow: Keep it up!

V held up a flag saying “Go, emo girl, go!” which Uzi actually didn’t mind. We flew into this box and moved past the crate when Uzi had her Absolute Solver glitch on her and she gasped. We came through the bus and I saw what she saw. Dead workers messed up and torn apart in brutal fashion with oil coating everything in a red glare behind it all.

In front of us was a shadowy figure that I looked intently on. They had some long hair but before I could gather anything else physically they switched to a dark version of Uzi.

Uzi: Aghh! No!

D: Uzi?!

I flew beside her only for Uzi to scramble her hands around her face before she came out from the bus and crashed onto the other side. I landed down beside her in concern.

V: Didn’t really stick the landing.

Shadow: She did pretty good. And for a brick, D flew pretty good.

N: Uzi’s not getting up. Uzi? Uzi?!

He rushed on over while V and Shadow took their time moving over to Uzi and me. He knelt beside her and smiled.

N: Hey, you did an amazing job! Landing is hard, don’t worry about it. You good?

Uzi started chucking sinerstly and V became wary of her. I looked down at Uzi with confusion. Shadow felt something was off as well.

N: Uzi?

Uzi suddenly began to crack and twist. A voice that wasn’t Uzi’s suddenly emitted from her as her Absolute Solver sign covered her face.

Uzi/???: Surprise cameo!

V: N, get away from her!

Uzi/???: Haha, hello V. Go take care of them for us, D, please?

Uzi reached her hand toward me and I felt a pain in my servos as I tried to fight it but eventually my feral side kicked in: Yes, I’ll handle them for you.
A gravelly voice that sounded glitchy and rough like some mix between a decepticon, the predator, and a droid. He flew right into Shadow who gasped and punched me in my face.

N: Wait, V! Uzi, I’m right here and I’m not going anywhere.

Uzi chuckled sinerstly as she smiled at N with her purple sign glowing brighter. She began to laugh louder too.

N: Listen, I’m right here. It’s gonna be okay. Can you hear me?

Uzi laughed psychotically and leaped forward towards N. Uzi jumped to strike N each time he dodged her and she smiled as she formed a chain with her Absolute Solver and then wrapped it around N.

N fell back with a grunt. All N could see was Uzi and her tail looking to bite into him and destroy him. The tail’s tongue began to approach his face and began to shake with digital sweat forming on his face from the fear he had.

Shadow kept me back with his own Solver which I continually pushed against.

Shadow: D, calm down. Fight this! N?!

N broke himself free using his wings which sent Uzi flying back into the air like a bird failed on a hunt but circling back for a second try. V quickly rushed over to assist N.

Uzi laughed and then tore into her finger which formed into her claw. The control then wavered on me and I saw Uzi flying up and I flew up to combat her again, seeing her as competition. The two of us grappled against each other.

Shadow: Crap, they're gonna kill each other.

V: We need to blast Uzi.

N: What? You can’t do that!

Shadow: Wait, she might have a point here.

V: N, shut up and listen to me. If you want a chance to salvage your goodie-two-shoes plan then you need to blast her. If she’s anything like us like you said, she’ll shut off and reboot.

N: But—?

V: Do you want me to make this plan work or not?

Shadow: N, we have to do this.

V: Come on, N.

N: Okay, as long as she’ll be okay.

V: I’ll get her down here and you deal the final blow. Shadow will handle the psycho pteranodon. Okay?

N nods in agreement.

V: Good. Now with that said, let’s dance Doorman~.

Both of their eyes turned into their X shapes and V flew up giggling. Shadow quickly moved up to the top of a building and used Uzi’s chain skill to grapple me back down to a solid surface. I bit at the chain but couldn’t break it easily.

Shadow: Don’t make me have to render you offline too, dude.

With Uzi no longer doing battle with me she went to attack N who used his wings to block her. V brought her blades out and flew into Uzi. She had a trick up her sleeve as she sent projectiles out towards them both while a Solver shield held her still. N began to get a target lock on Uzi.

V began to cut into the projectiles Uzi sent at her. She then formed a hammer and spun around to slam into Uzi. She was stopped as Uzi made a clawed hand and caught the hammer.

Uzi/???: Thwarted. Invades your personal space. Fatality.

V shouts out as Uzi slams V’s head into the Solver shield she made which cracks her visor and oil seeps out. Shadow watched with terror.

Shadow: V!

I snarled against the chains wanting to join in on the fight but Shadow groaned at me: Not the time!
He slammed his foot into my face which sent me offline but not dead. He sighed and fell back and turned back towards V.

N: Oh my God? V!

V began to giggle which confused Uzi. Her voice glitched out and became maniacal: You. Are. Done!
V growls and then unloads her cannons onto Uzi which sends her falling down onto the snow. N charged his laser cannon up.

N: Just one shot, come on!

N couldn’t locate her in time and got jumped by Uzi from the dust. Uzi flew past him and then made a cage full of Solver symbols and then threw N around like a ragdoll into them. N shouted in pain and then fell down with a battered face and a near dead expression.

Uzi went in for the killing blow but N raised his gun up, closed his eyes tightly, and shot Uzi’s head clean off. Uzi began to heal back to normal and luckily she was her normal self again, she groaned in pain.

Uzi: Ugh. What-what happened?

N suddenly hugged her tightly.

Uzi: Oof. N?

N: Oh thank God!

Uzi then raised her arm to see the clawed hand she had made while not being herself: What the hell? Wha—. Tell me I didn’t…

V landed down and pulled N back and aimed her cannon at Uzi.

N: V, no!

V: Go to Hell!

She shot her cannon but Shadow held the missile back from afar and Uzi flew away in fear.

N: Stop! Stop!

He slapped V’s hand out of the air, ceasing the bullets' continuous firing.

Uzi: I’m so sorry.

She was whimpering in fear of herself and from V. She then flew away and N called after her.

N: No, it’s okay! Uzi! Come back!

N then turned at V with a seething rage: Why did you do that?

V in a distorted voice: N, we did things your way, and it didn’t work. So now we’re doing things MY WAY.

N: You can’t kill her! She didn’t mean to go crazy, neither did D.

V laughed distortedly: Oh, so she can beat us senselessly and we’re just supposed to be okay with that? I see.

She laughs like a psychopath as she was getting fed up with all this stuff going on with her past trauma and the most recent events. That voice she heard haunted her to her core.

V: This was a bad idea from the start. But YOU didn’t want to listen to me because you’re so insistent on FIXING HER.

N: Because she’s our friend.

V: Y’all’s friend, not mine! You're all I got N. I’m not risking that for some stupid worker. I’m taking her offline whether you like it or not.

Her laughter was even more distraught now.

N: Wait! No! You can’t!

V took off and N sat there before he panicked: Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap! I gotta find Uzi before she does.

Shadow watched V fly over: Hey, umm, D. I know I just knocked you out but you gotta get up now. Wake up! If you don’t get up then Uzi’s gonna become V’s lunch meat.

Shadow slapped me a few times and I woke up and grabbed his hand: Ughh! Everything hurts. Did you say something about V and lunch meat?

Shadow: Yes! V is going to kill Uzi!

D: Why didn’t you lead with that?

I flew off after V as Shadow facepalmed and made a Solver bridge for him to use to traverse from building to building.

V soared through the city while I tailed her with a shriek. She saw me and then shot her laser at my wing and I had to glide myself onto a wall and grip it to avoid getting made into a oil patch in the snow.

Shadow: D, I got her!

He skated over his Solver bridge. I tried using my Solver but it didn't work and just glitched away. I groaned and began to climb the building as my wing couldn’t be healed.

V stopped up ahead and turned to see an apartment block that Uzi was hiding in. Her whimpering was very evident. V flew inside and landed down. Glass shattered as Uzi feared for her life.

Uzi was crying: What’s wrong with me? I hate this! Why won’t it stop?

She desperately tried to make her hand revert to normal: Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop! Please! I don’t want to be this!

V readied her blade with a twisted smile and sliced the rock Uzi was bringing behind but she was shocked to see her younger self in a maid outfit. She saw Uzi in her position a while back, scared, alone, and full of the feeling to be wanted.

Uzi cried and stared at her: I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

Shadow arrived behind V with his Solver at the ready: V, don’t hurt her.

V ignored him and knelt down at Uzi’s eye level and instead of hurting her, she showed Uzi how to revert her hand back to normal. Uzi then did so and Shadow relaxed and unleashed a heavy sigh he was holding in.

V: I…I’m sorry too.

The three of them made their way out to the destroyed balcony as N called for Uzi: Uzi? Uzi? Uzi?

D: There up there!

N turned and saw V and Uzi smiling together while Shadow used his Absolute Solver to bring me up. N then laughed in relief. N hugged the two girls and before long we all made it back to the corpse spire.

N: Well I guess I was no help?

Uzi: No! I mean… yes, you did help! I kinda know how to fly now, which is super cool.

D: Thanks to you, I won’t be crashing into things.

Shadow: Yeah, please stop crashing into things, it’s getting annoying seeing D shaped holes everywhere.

We laughed at that before Uzi began to speak again: As for the messed up stuff in my head.

V: At this point why don’t you ask your inner demon to leave you alone? Judging by N’s logic that should totally work.

Uzi: Oh, so we’re back to being a diva now? Y’know at least he’s trying to help us.

V laughs annoyed: He’s messing with things he doesn’t even understand. What don’t you under about that? We can’t fix you! We barely know what to do with ourselves. How the hell are we supposed to help you?

She gives off a dry laugh and I look at her with sympathy: Well, we won’t fix ourselves then, instead we’ll just have to adapt and overcome.

V blows my saying off: You think it would work like that, you think all this is rough, try having this be your entire life. I barely remember anything about what life was before. It scrambles your mind, makes you feel crazy! But being crazy is the only way to feel normal, because everyone will see you as crazy no matter what you do. At this point you're just screwed. So why would it even matter? Why even care when you can just destroy?
N gives her a hug and Shadow looks at the stars mulling over what she said, thinking about the life V has been through.

V: N?

N: You seem like you need it.

Uzi: Wait? Barely?

V: What?

Uzi: You said “barley” as in, you remember a life before all this mass murder crap!

V: Yeah. What of it?

Uzi: That means we haven’t hit a dead end yet! We have a lead!

N and V: Huh?

Uzi: You two may be the only ones who can help find out all of this robot-vampirism BS. All we need to do is get inside your head and see what’s jacking up your processor.

V: Yeah, I don’t think that’s going to…

N: Love the idea! One problem though, our memories are mush, remember?

Uzi giggles to herself: That won’t be a problem for me.

D: Count me in on this. I’d love to join in on what you got planned.

Shadow: Of course you are.

V: If you even think of popping my head open then yours will be rolling on the floor next!

Uzi speaks sarcastically: Oh no, another empty threat. Admit it! You found a nanospark of warmth in your heart to care about me~.

V: UGHHHH! SHUT UP!

V sends Uzi off the spire. I look over the edge and smile.

N: Uzi!

V: Crap, sorry.

Uzi flies up and laughs.

N: Uzi! You're flying! We did it! We did it!

Uzi: I’m airborne now suckers!

Uzi takes a shot at a random camera a drone held and after that the sun was coming back so we all went inside and went to sleep.

Notes:

Finished this all in one sitting and now it’s late, I'm tired, and have school tomorrow so that’s fun but I’m glad I got it done.

As always I hope you enjoyed, comment, request OC’s if you want, and I’ll see you all at Home.

That’s all Folks!

Chapter 7: MURDER DRONES (X): Buisness

Summary:

When some new drones come to open up a bar another drone seeks a job sending them in a mission into hostile territory.

Notes:

So this is a little work that takes place between Intermission and Home. It’s pretty short but I hope you like it. 3 OC’s are introduced here as it focuses on them three.

Business

In the bright and cloudless night sky there was a shining star. The only difference was that the star was actually getting closer to the ground.!it wasn’t a star, it was a landing pod, intact too. The legs bounced as they landed into the snow and sunk deep in to anchor it down.

The top hatch opened and a lime green eyed worker drone climbed onto the top of the ship. His green pocket hoodie was put over his body and the wind blew his black hair. With him was someone else.
A disassembly drone landed down and pushed snow away with her wings. Her yellow glow gazed over the now. Her communist military hat stayed firmly placed on her head and a giant scythe laid on her back with a magnetic clamp. Her clothing was a military camouflage suit, not that it helped her much out here.

???: So why are we here today, Jive?

The disassembly drone spoke and Russian words came out but were translated to English. Jive, the worker drone, climbed down the ladder of the ship and firmly planted his feet into the snow.

Jive: Cooper 9 has shown significant activity so I assumed we could make a profit here. Find some work.

???: So there in that Colony?

Jive: Indeed. Wait outside, need to make sure the locals won’t freak out if there's a Murder Drone, got it Lend?

Lend: Yep, I got it.

Lend flew up onto the Colony and then flew over to a hole in the ceiling and looked down to see some discarded drone bodies and some giant centipede eldritch horror.

Lend: Creepy…

Jive went up to the door and knocked. The hatch moved open slowly to reveal a worker drone's face with white eyes.

Before the drone could speak Jive handed a business card to the worker who took it and allowed Jive inside. Once inside Jive dusted himself off and saw a picture of a murder drone saying “I’m sorry”. This was surprising.

Jive: You have Murder Drones here?

???: Yep, our boss’s daughter brought him and her friend in a while back and even though he killed a lot of people, we’re still accepting of him.

Jive: So, can I bring my own Murder Drone client inside?

???: I don’t see why not.

Jive whistled and Lend flew in from behind Jive and landed, her wings sent snow blowing past the worker drone.

Lend: A pleasure to meet you sir.

???: Yep, anyways, the place you're looking for is down the right hall, you’ll then take a left and then another left.

Jive: I’m aware.

With that the two walked away and into the bar. It was dark and empty. With a snap of Jive’s fingers the bar lit up and drinks and music were instantly at the ready. Jive gave a smile.

Jive: Now we wait.

Elsewhere in Lizzy’s room sat her father. He was The Teacher for the Colony and he regretted it. He held up his flask and saw that it was empty. He sighed.

Teacher: Time for a refill.

He walked outside and moved into the bar and saw the other adult workers standing or sitting around playing pool, darts, or a form of chess. He looked at the empty table full of stacked cards. He kept a mental note to go play that later.

He moved over to one of the bar stools and settled himself down. He placed his flask on the counter and tapped his fingers. Jive came over while washing a glass.

Jive: Hello there, Teacher. What shall I get you? The usual?

Teacher: The same old thing.

Jive: Right away.

Jive pulls out a drink and fills up the flask with his drink. Jive had a natural smile plastered onto his face.

Jive: So, anything new?

Teacher sighed: Ever since Doorman’s daughter made friends with these two new worker drones and some murder drones, it’s made my job very stressful, especially now that my daughter could be in danger.

Jive: Speaking of which, how has Lizzy been?

Teacher: Fine. The same old.

Jive: Good to hear. Well, have fun with your card game, I have my acquaintance to meet.

Teacher nodded and went to play cards with other workers who wanted a relaxing day off. Jive walked back to see Lend tidying up inventory. She turned to see him come in.

Lend: Oh hey Jive! Anything you need?

Jive: Not yet but I have a feeling we’re getting some new patrons very soon.

Lend: Great. What mission are we heading on?

Jive: I’ll tell you soon, you probably won’t like it.

Lend: Oh no…

In a bunker fitted room elsewhere laid a worker drone. A Purassian worker drone with blue hair in pigtails. Her green eyes flicked open and she rose up and stretched before putting all her gear on. Anything that dealt with their parent company was on her uniform which other sensitive drones didn’t like but it was one of the uniforms they had for her use.

She fixed her glasses and stood up and shined and cleaned her weapons. Ranging from bayonets to suppressors. She walked out from her room and sighed.

Her mom and dad saw her walking out of her room and they turned to face her.

Her mom: What are you doing?

Her dad: Yeah, you aren’t supposed to be up early and going anywhere under the manual rules stated in subsection 3, paragraph 4.

Skorpion in her croatian accent: I don’t care what a dumb manual has to say about my life. I’m an independent worker drone now and I can do things myself.

Her dad: This attitude you have is unprecedented!
Skorpion: Could you stop talking about book rules for 5 minutes dad! That's all I ask for! I’m heading out.

Without any revolt she walked out the door and into the halls with her guns strapped on her back and by her right leg. A sign caught her attention.

It read: Looking for new patrons. Everyone is welcome. Come down to Jive’s bar for more business.

Skorpion scanned it over and then headed off toward the bar which she hadn’t known to ever have been open.

She walked in and saw that the place was busy. Lots of the adult worker drones were there, mainly the males. She walked up to the bar stand where she saw Jive turned around.

Skorpion: Hello?

Jive turned and saw her: Hello there, what can I get you?

Skorpion: Work.

Jive: Work?

Skorpion: The patron flier, I saw it. I want to work.

Jive: You’ve arrived in just the nic of time. We have a spot open and a job that needs to get done.

Skorpion: Where at?

Jive: Sign here and I’ll take you there.

He slid a paper toward her and she signed it quickly and neatly. She then saw Jive wave her outside the bar and then he gave off a whistle. Lend walked out and slid a vodka bottle over to the customer before she placed an auto machine to run the bar while she went outside it.

Lend: New patron?

Jive: Yeah. So, what’s your name?

Skorpion: Skorpion, and your names?

Jive: I’m Jive, she’s Lend. Alright, job details. We’re going with you on this one. We have to get something special and it’s a dangerous area. You think you're up for it?

Skorpion: I’m confident I’ll do exceptional.

Jive: Good.

Lend: What are we getting anyways?

Jive: A little tool. Something to help us not cause some happy accidents.

Lend: Like what exactly?

Jive: Some sort of thing that won’t allow whatever I move to turn to oily flesh.

Skorpion: Oily flesh? Are you referring to the Absolute Solver?

Jive: Yes, we are. How do you know about it?

Skorpion: A friend of mine named Candy was watching a girl in this colony and her friends. Three of them could use it. Two of them had fleshy adaptations. And the other one was similar to another user, a Russian worker drone named Doll.

Lend: Lots of Absolute Solver users lately.

Jive: And we know why.

Lend: Her…

Jive nodded: Well, Skorpion, we have a flight ahead of us, oh, and make sure to load up your guns. It’s gonna get messy.

Skorpion nodded and not too much later she was on the rocket pod, heading toward a more clear area. Below her she saw Uzi and her friends doing flying lessons. They didn’t notice them.

They got closer to the area and Lend gasped: Jive! Why here? Why?!

Jive: Listen, I don’t want to disrupt business or hurt you unintentionally. This is how I’ll fix my Absolute Solver problem.

Lend: You could have left me at the bar.

Jive: Couldn’t. I still need your skills here. If these others are like you, then I’ll probably lose.

Lend: Ugh! Fine, but I’m beating the crap out of you after this!

Jive: I accept those terms. Skorpion, you ready?
Skorpion: Yes. Where do I shoot?

Jive: Aim for the husk in the red parts, chest, and mouth.

Skorpion: Alright, sounds easy enough.
Jive: Oh it’s not easy at all.

Skorpion: How wonderful.

They landed down and immediately a husk spire sent three drones out toward them. Lend used a dash ability with her scythe out and sliced one of them in half.

Lend: Jive, stick this one out. I know you can’t handle these husks. Skorpion, escort him to what he needs.

Skorpion: Understood.

Skorpion quickly unloaded 6 shots into the two remaining drones right where Jive had said to shoot them. 3 bullets for each drone.

Two more spires rose up from the icy ground and sent some more drone husks out. Skorpion shot one dead with 4 shots in a small burst. She moved with Jive while the other husk targeted Lend.
Lend was fighting fiercely with her scythe and when she was finished she hovered in the air. That’s when a few of the husks rose back up and sent red tendrils around Lend which dragged her down. It was their loss because when under stress in battle she goes insane.

Lend’s eyes went into their X shape and she began to tear the husk apart. Some of them whimpered if they lasted long enough. Their oily flesh writhed about until they were sliced by a fast moving tail. The nanite acid burned them away.

Jive was close to what he needed when a purple light beamed down from above him and Skorpion. The two backed away when four purple drones with The Boss appeared.

The Boss: Jive? What a pleasant surprise. After the tool to keep your little problem under control.

Jive: Leave me to my business, Parsec.

Parsec: So no negotiations. Open fire on them.
The 4 purple soldiers fired purple lasers toward them but Jive kept them back with his Absolute Solver.

Skorpion: I got him!

She ran past him and after Parsec. He saw her approaching and used his staff which had a captured Absolute Solver ball that he used to move up chunks of ice and throw them toward her. She climbed up two of them but the third block had hit her down.

Jive: Skorpion, fall back!

His Absolute Solver destroyed one of the soldiers by crushing them into a ball. He ran after Skorpion as Lend landed down and sliced the others heads off. She then flew up and swooped down and slammed into Parsec.

Parsec: I’m tired of you already.

He smacked her off with his staff and buried her in ice chucks. He approached what they had come for and reached out to grab it.

Jive: Catch!

Parsec caught something in his hand and his eyes widened. In the palm of his hand was a Molotov and it blew up and burned him: Agh!

He beamed himself away and before grabbing the tool Jive freed the others. He then grabbed the tool and slipped it over his wrist.

Lend: We risked our lives for that watch?

Jive: Yep. We sure did. Let’s go on and head back.

Lend: You are so lucky I love you.

Jive: Yeah, I know.

Skorpion placed her gun on her back and walked back to the ship. She fixed her glasses as she took her seat.

Lend: You did good, Skorpion.

Skorpion: Thank you. I’m just glad I succeeded even if I rushed a little bit.

Lend: At least you’re alive.

Skorpion: There is that. Can’t wait for our next mission.

Lend: It might be some time before that.
Skorpion: I’m sure they’re will be something going on with Uzi that we could jump in on.

Jive: Ehh, who knows.

Eventually they landed back down at The Colony and they all went to sleep in their respective areas. But somewhere something stirred. It was a mansion, a broken one.

???: Seems like I have even more work to do. Don’t I, D?

A yellow eye shined with an X before it switched to show D moving around. His right eye glitched and showed the surrounding area to her. He was going to be the eyes and ears for the meantime. They would meet soon, afterall, he hasn’t even seen her humble home yet. It would be so rude to not show him around. The female voice laughed some as she looked through D’s eye.

Notes:

Thanks for reading as usual. I’ll finish up with Home soon and I also have a slightly different take for Tessa. Something simple and nice you could say. And that is Silly Cyn at the end puppeteering D. He’s not fully controlled but he can be slightly influenced by her.

I’ll see you soon.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 8: MURDER DRONES (X): Home

Summary:

To save the memories of N and V, Uzi, D, and Shadow must dive into their minds. They uncover things that Parsec has done, The Elliot’s, and the ringmaster of the entire reason everyone is even in this mess, Cyn.

It’s going to be quite the adventure in this mindscape.

Notes:

Thanks again for checking this out and I hope you all love the small touches I’ve made.

Home

A VHS tape begins playing, showing JCJenson with icons for cleaning, cooperate, and robot safety.
JCJenson (In SPAAAAACEE!!!!)
Rebuild Together BetterTM
FBI WARNING:
Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures, video tapes, or video discs.
Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by the FBI and may constitute a felony with a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine.
JCJenson: AUTOMATED SERVICES TECHNICIAN TRAINING
WD Disassembly - (1A) Overview:
"Zombie Drones!!!!"
CLIENT REASON FOR WD UNIT DISASSEMBLY AND DISPOSAL
53% Unit Damage
27% Upgrading Model
11% Terminating Operation(s)
7% Competitor Products
2% Core Failsafe Trip
1% Other

Narrator: Upgrading models. Cutting maintenance costs.

WD DISASSEMBLY PROCESS TWO STEP OVERVIEW
STEP 1: Software Cleanup
Ensure Marked WD Unit Matches P/N, S/N (1A) → MARKED FOR DISASSEMBLY
Narrator: There are many reasons the clients may wish to disassemble a drone individual or series after a period of use.
Upload wdOS_606
(This is Fun for Them) (1B)
STEP 2: Hardware Cleanup
Human Inspection (2A): Affirm Core Disconnect
Process Drone (1) Core (1)
Through disassembly unit (2R)
Human Inspection (2B):
Affirm fun

Narrator as the tape and audio begin glitching out: Following these two steps is key to avoiding—
The tape has now completely glitched out and is replaced by static. Until it shows the text in red letters ZOMBIE DRONES!!!!!

The tape then returns to normal. For the most part.
WD DISASSEMBLY PROCESS COMPLICATIONS AND FINES

FINE 9C: "Zombie Drones"
-> Core is not properly disconnected
-> Hardware is not physically destroyed
-> wdOS_606 is interrupted/rejected immediately (1A) or up to five (5) years later

Narrator: Incompletely disassembled drones may occasionally reboot from software death alone. More than undead federal fine hazards, these corrupted AI carry an increased risk of future error—
CORE TERMINATION REJECTION CAUS CHECKLIST - "T.O.F."
aiCore WD1001 -0.01% self-reboot rate (3020)
Technician Error (Repeat A1-B2)
Faulty OS String (Check Indicator)
Failsafe Wear (Inspect Pins)

The tape glitches out once more as the screen zooms out from a television set sitting in a dump. A bird flies around looking for something to snack on. Underground, a drone awakens. The drone has a cracked visor and two yellow eyes look around at all the other dead drones in the dump with fatal error signs before looking sinister.

At a mansion, N is sitting in a library, reading a book called "101 Dog Breeds".

N: This breed is known for its friendly, intelligent temperament, and soft golden coat!

He chuckles: Golden Retrievers are also—

He comes across a drawing that was placed in the book: Us as lizards. J drew herself. There was N and V and then J drew herself with the words Kill Yourself above her drawings head.

He tosses the drawing off to the side and continues reading.

N clears his throat: ...are also known for having gentle mouths. Aww...! That's why they're good with kids!

He hears a stomping noise. Books start falling off the shelves as he sees that someone is attempting to enter the library via a trapdoor... But he thinks nothing of it, flashes a peace sign, and walks away.

An insect crawls over a teacup and begins to drink the tea inside. Another insect looks at the other one from the edge and smacks it in the face only for a needle to stab them both in the abdomen.

Cyn: Stab.

The insect gets stabbed by Cyn's tail as she picks the tea up with her claw. N enters and sees Cyn as some eldritch horror like Eldritch J looked like earlier.
Cyn: You seem upset, big brother N. Perhaps you'd like to attend the gala with me? Light sip.
She sips her tea and some spills onto the ground, barely missing her maid dress. Her voice was very robotic, like one of them stereotypical AI voices.

N: Ah... Not sure we're invited, little buddy. Why not just hang with me?

Cyn climbs the bar some: Climbing. Criss-cross applesauce. Am I not wanted, N?

N gives off a heavy sigh: Dude... You know it's Tessa's folks.

Red liquid, likely blood, suddenly drips from the ceiling and onto N's platter. He wipes it off, revealing a message written on the ceiling.

BAƧMƎИT NOW!!!
STOᑫ IGИORINວ MƎ!!!!

Thinking nothing of it, N tosses the platter to the side and it imbeds into the wall.

N sighs again: Don't give me those eyes.

Cyn has a puppy picture over her eyes. Her tongue is out and her hands outstretched like an awaiting puppy doing a trick for attention.

Cyn: Giggle. I am so naughty. The flesh demands invitation.

N: Ah, we'll ask Tessa, OK? If not... Movie night!

Cyn: Sheepish nod.

N and Cyn enter the eating lounge where the gala is taking place. Everything is in a yellow glow. All the humans are shadowy figures with glowing white eyes. Multiple drones are moving tables, tending to pictures, or dusting. The owners didn’t like what they saw though.

Cyn was walking behind N as they made it through the area: Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle.

James: Western Villa style?! Were you programmed by beasts?!

He tosses a fork into a Worker Drone's eyes. The drone falls over with oil leaking onto the carpet now and the other drone looks fearful for its life.

Tessa: There's humans coming! I've only ever yakked to robots, J! Quick! Pretend to be a ripping royal stud!

J starts pretending to act all royal and proper lady-like. Her expression was a deadpan one and a wine glass in her hand.

Tessa: On ya, girl.

They have a toast. Tessa starts rubbing her arm like it hurts. Something clearly wasn’t going well in this house for her.

Tessa: I'm right, J.

She sees that N has arrived: N!

She runs up, grabs him by his cheeks, and swings him around.

N in a muffled voice: Hi, Tessa.

N looks over. In the window, another message is being written.

WHEN U ABOUT
2 FRIKKEN DIE,
SPEAK ALOUD:
ID: DarkXWolf17

Tessa: Oh, who'd you bring with—

She sees Cyn and her expression falters: How...

Cyn: Seems J forgot to let me out of my basement time-out again.

J in an annoyed tone: Yet, here you are.

Cyn: Annoyed expression.

N: You guys are... locking her up?

Tessa: Oh... N—

Louisa alks over with a scowl: Tessa James Elliott! We will not entertain your dumpster pets!

Tessa: Y-Y-Y-Yes, mother. Sorry, mother.

Louisa looks at them all and then sees Cyn standing there with a tilted head and lowered posture: Oh! Christ Almighty! I said, "This one, out of my sight!" Still can't follow simple orders?

Tessa: NO, NO! Please, I—

Louisa: Swamp. Dumping your broken drones clogging our library tomorrow, too. Don't test me.

She walks away in a huff. Tessa tries to argue back, but isn't willing to anger her mother any further but Cyn had other plans.

Cyn: They are not broken. We can no longer be thrown out.

Louisa was hot under the collar with boiled anger: Did that little Antichrist—

N: I-I-I told her to say that! And brought her here. I-I just... hate orders...?

He starts getting more nervous while Louisa's blood keeps boiling: And your fan's dumb...?

He gives a sheepish grin, which slowly dissolves as he gets more scared of his inevitable punishment.

N has now been tied to a tree and is being pecked by ravens.

N: NO! AAAH! STOP!

What sounds like torture is, in reality, N being playfully tickled from head to toe by the ravens.
N was giggling joyfully: Stop!

A raven hands N a stick, wagging its tail and panting like a dog.

N: Go get it, goobers!

He throws the stick in the air, and a raven snatches it. Without warning, all the ravens on the ground turn to face N with sinister, glowing, green eyes. He glances over at another Drone who suffered his own fate at the hands, or talons, of these ravens. He gives a small thumbs up... And the ravens begin to attack him for real.

N was being pecked and was panicking: RONALD, WE WERE BUDDIES! ...DarkXWolf17...?

All the ravens fly off as another raven makes its loud entrance. It twitches, falls on the ground, and gets back up. A purple light emits from its left eye. The same happens to a lizard with cyan eyes and burns rise up from the ground and a velociraptor with green eyes forms its flesh. Uzi, Shadow, and me in that order.

User ID: DarkXWolf17

Uzi begins speaking.

Uzi: I made the tag when I was eight, shut up.

Back at the manor, Tessa is in her room, her leg chained up. She was pulling on it as much as she could but failing terribly.

Tessa: J, industrial machinery, chuck us a hand!

J: Sorry, boss. Corporate's spoken.

J was riding in a little rocking horse but she did look quite upset about not being able to help Tessa. She didn’t want to end up chained out there like N. So for now, she obeyed Tessa’s parents.

Tessa: Cyn! If that little butler dies for your sake, I swear!

Cyn while laying with human dolls like a child: Mm. I have backups.

Out of options, Tessa gets down to investigate a way to break the chains herself when Cyn appears next to her in an Eldritch form.

Eldritch Cyn: You will not have to discard your pets, and I will not discard you. Best stay away from the gala, though. You seem squeamish.

A tentacle moved over Tessa’s face, causing her to shake and tremble in fear with wide eyes. Cyn leaves. One of her toys begins crawling around like a large insect.

Back outside...

N: So, these are memories, and future me is dead at a sleepover?

Shadow: Basically.

Uzi while picking up a stone: Not a sleepover. You passed out 'cause some internal program is trying to delete these memories.

N: 'Cause... 'Cause of you? 'Cause you're doing that?
Uzi drops the stone on his head which doesn’t affect N at all.

Uzi: I'm helping, you cute, weird, weird butler. We find out what happened to you here, restore the memory files, and save you from being digitally lobotomized. Library basement, giddy up.

N: ...'Kay.

He heads off for the library.

N: You kind of seem like an evil ghost witch, though.

Uzi pecks his eye: AH!

Uzi: I AM a ghost witch! And I'm tall.

She laughs evilly. Until...

Uzi: DAD! GET OUT OF MY ROOM!

D: Excuse her for a mere moment.

Her raven falls over. Back in the present time...

Uzi: Important hacking going on!

Khan: Okay, okay. You've just never had friends over befo—

Uzi: IT'S NOT A SLEEPOVER!

Uzi's Little Insect Friend: IT'S LIFE OR DEATH, DAD! >:( Uzi closes the door.

Back in the past, Uzi, back in her raven form, and N have reached the library.

Uzi: Sorry. Where were we...? Oh…

Shadow: Yeah, we're dealing with this today. All for N’s memories. How did I sign up for this again?

D: You didn’t.

Shadow: Oh right, you forced me.

D: Yes I did, Doll was happy enough to persuade you as well.

Shadow blushes a little: You are such an idiot for doing that.

They have reached the library. V stands before them, silent and stiff as a board.

Uzi: Okay, N, I can pull you out an—

N interjects quickly: Now! Now, please!

Uzi: —nytime. But, you'll never get these memories back, dude.

They press forward slowly with N being very tense and frightened. I walk forward with slight toe tapping, sniffing the air and sensing something below V’s planted feet.

N: They're that important?

Uzi: To you! And, like... me.

N: Why? Who are you?

Uzi: We just... hang out. Shut up. Repression door.

V's eyes display "ERROR: 606". N hesitates, then relents, moves V out of the way, removes the rug she was standing on, revealing that she was standing on the basement door. Which is locked.

Uzi: The key...

N: Ugh, J has it…

I bite at the lock only for it to stay locked and jiggle: This ain’t coming off.

Shadow: Absolute Solver?

D tried it out: Can’t work in this mind scape.

They suddenly hear a giggling noise. They slowly turn to see that V is now grinning from ear to ear and has a claw-like hand. Uzi's raven lays an egg in terror. I roar out and snarl at V who flies toward us.

Shadow: Oh, that’s a no, run away. Don’t try and fight her D.

I snarled and scapered up, light on my feet and we escaped V, for the meantime anyways.

Back in Tessa's room, J is trying to break the chains with her mouth. Her grip on them is solid.

Tessa was being overdramatic: It wants paid time off... To attend UUUNION NEGOTIATIOOOONS!

J finally had hit her limit: THIS IS AN UNRELATED LAYOFF!

In her rage, she has unknowingly broken the chains. She looks over at Tessa, who gives a thumbs up. The both of them smiled at each other and exited the room.

At the gala, Tessa and J sneak up above on the second floor bridge.

Tessa: How do you reckon we murder us a robo-child, J?

She bumps into a suit of armor and quickly catches it before it crashes with a loud thud. J grabs a revolver while Tessa grabs a sword.

Tessa and J: What about this?

They decide to swap their weapons. Each of them gained a feel for them and liked their decisions. They then saw multiple purple robots and a bigger figure talking with her parents.

The Boss: Stay on high alert. We may have party crashers.

James: The only party crashers will be your security services. Nothing can possibly mess with us.

The Boss: Be glad I’m willing to protect you and the rest of your higher ups.

James: Yes, yes. Thank you. How is your project coming along?

The Boss: It shall be ready soon. Nothing will be able to defeat you or your family when it’s complete. Just keep the money coming.

James: Of course.

N Whispers: Psst! Tessa!

They look to see that N and Uzi have shown up. Me and Shadow looked over at them which slightly freaked them out since Shadow was some cyan lizard with glowing eyes, Uzi was the same way but purple, and I was a deadly raptor with green lights.
Suddenly, V's glasses drop. They slowly look up to see V above them. They huddle as a group. I kept my eyes on V while the others talked.

N: We need the basement key. This bird's from the future.

Uzi flies over to J and snatches the key: I kill you.

She snickers mischievously and flies back to N.

Tessa: Cyn's gonna massacre the gala!

N: Who? Our Cyn? Nah, she's cool.

D: Cyn? Who is that?

Tessa: Who are you?

Without warning and before anyone could answer, V swoops down and splits the group up.

J: Do your basement thing! We got the coma patient you creeped on!

N: Not creepy! Sweet!

D: I’ll help them out. That Boss guy down there needs a beating.

Shadow: Alright, good luck, don’t die, we’re going to be leaving now.

N turns... And V swipes at him with her claw, making him drop the key. Tessa picks it up and throws it back to N. V tosses J's sword backwards at N, but J kicks him out of the way and takes her sword back. She rushes towards V, and the two engage in combat.

Meanwhile, Lord Frumptlebucket is watching from below.

Lord Frumptlebucket raises his hand up and curled his fingers: Crikey, what a boundin' humphterfruffle!

Katie: Why are you talking like that?

All hell broke loose as various purple soldiers shot their lasers at us which we had to duck from among trading slashes with V. I leapt off the balcony and onto one of them and sliced my toe claws into their shoulders and that ended up splitting them in half. Oil covered the ground in huge puddles.

I roared out as I bashed myself through another one. J kicked V out of the room and huffed before jumping down with her sword and cutting a drones head off.

One of them smacked J in the head: You're just a pathetic maid. So weak and weird compared to our superiority.

The drone laughed at her.

J had been scolded for years, just like Cyn, N, and V had been, even Tessa wasn’t safe from this. But now she wasn’t putting up with it anymore as she stabbed the sword straight through his chest and then twisted it inside and watched the lights fade from the purple drones eyes.

J removed the sword and Tessa shot another drone with her new gun, a smile on her face. We cleared out the next 3 before we made our way to the main gala room.

N, Shadow, and Uzi make their way back through the library. They hurry to the basement door and unlock it when...

Eldritch Cyn pops up: Jump scare. Grab. She snatches Uzi and throws her to the side as a crushed up mound of feathers.

Shadow: Ahh crap!

Eldritch Cyn flicked him into the wall and then grabbed N. She moved back down into the basement as N screamed.

N: DARKXWOLF17! NOO-HO-HO-HO-HOOO!

Eldritch Cyn holds N tightly and Shadow follows bee using his claws to keep a tight hold but she suddenly malfunctions. Then returns to normal, Uzi having hacked her way into Eldritch Cyn's body leaving the once yellow eye purple.

Uzi: Oh, we're in!

She spots V behind him. Her eyes are in a deadlocked state. Her clawed hands out. Her teeth showed in a smile: N, don’t you want to help out and eliminate them?

Her tone was beyond creepy for N. Shadow nipped at her leg to which she tried to stab at him. He moved away quickly and N leaped back into the basement and the door latched shut: Agh! That was scary.

Uzi: And J's useless. Surprise.

Shadow: Too close for comfort.

N: Is V... okay? Like, in the future?

Uzi: Unfortunately. Now, let's see what that little yellow creep was up— Oh...!

They come across a collection of dismembered Worker Drone corpses. They were experiments to recreate N and others to make the best drone forms possible, the prelude to the Murder Drones.

Uzi: So... That's a pretty... metal origin story...

N was beyond terrified: Not dealing with this great, to be immediately honest...!

He took a moment to repress it: ...Okay, it's gone.

Uzi: Alright, let's get out of here.

A rumbling occurs. Back in the modern time...

Khan: Hey, buddy, you invite Doll to this—

He suddenly gets moved aside as Doll makes her way into Uzi's room.

Back in the past the husk of flesh and metal flashed off and then turned to yellow.

N: Ghost buddy...? You okay...?

Eldritch Cyn: Better than ever, "buddy".

She grabs N and tosses him into the chair and wraps a tendril around some tools while her other tendrils wrap around Shadow: Let's reset these memories one more time.

The gala is about to commence. All the gala-goers were talking with one another with not an idea of what’s about to occur in the manor. The Boss stood besides James with his weapon on his back.
James tapped his wine glass: Welcome, all! The Elliotts are known for many things. Class, tenacity, currently being alive—

Cyn: Well-timed giggle.

She reveals herself by sitting on the globe and turning around on it within a single spin. Her head tilted and some lighting flashed showing her true eldritch form.

Tessa, me, and J barge in. I roared out at the purple drones and at the party goers. I had noticed the chain marks on Tessa’s arm and I was unhappy with the parenting skills or lack of.

Tessa: EVERYONE, STAND BACK! This is a citizen's murder!

James and Louisa gasp.

Louisa was appalled: That dress!

James: You hold that gun less cool this instant, missy!

Cyn uses her AbsoluteSolver to shove the two parents to the side. She moved along with a smile, her hands pointed down.

Cyn: Hello D, we finally meet. Also, Tessa, remember, you didn't have to—

She gets fired at her eye, but this breaks a window as Cyn’s Absolute Solver deflected the bullet.
Cyn: ...You didn't have—

Tessa throws the revolver at her, to no avail. She then starts throwing glass cups at her, not getting any different results. Cyn then powers out the room, takes control of all the Drones around, including J, but not me.

D: Oh no…

Eldritch Cyn: You didn't have to see this.

Eldritch Cyn crushes the globe she was sitting on before with her claw as she was now her eldritch form and she was intimidating.

D: Tessa, listen to me. You need to run and leave the Gala now! It’s the only way you’ll be able to make it.

Tessa: What about you?

D: I’ll be fine. I have a way out, just Run!

The Boss: My troops, it’s time we take our leave. We’ve done what we’ve needed to do.

James: Parsec! You lying bastard!

Parsec: You were a good tool, Mr. Elliot.

He and his troops went out the window. I stayed and watched as all the drones that were taken over began to kill the other humans. I then charged towards the drones when Cyn held me up with her Absolute Solver, she was back in her drone form.

Cyn: Good plan, sending Tessa away. She’ll be able to leave, but, J, go with her.

J flew out the door and followed Tessa with purpose. Her mind turned to normal once she was caught up to Tessa. She carried her to safety. In the distance, Parsec’s project took off. It was a massive ship escaping Earth’s orbit and going elsewhere. The downpour increased with every heavy breath Tessa took as they ended up in a ship and took off as well.

Cyn: Now, here, D, you shall be my puppet, my spy, my friend. Don’t worry, you're not going to realize it. I’ll be seeing you soon.

The Absolute Solver around me squeezed and as I reached out my claw and it went through her silver hair. Cyn flicked her eyes toward me and smiled. She then implanted something into my head and I fell asleep and my body was dropped.

Back down in the basement, N hears the screams of the guests as they are being massacred. Eldritch Cyn is trying to pick up some tools to wipe N's memories.

Eldritch Cyn: Son of a... Come on... Solver of the absolute fabric, get a grip.

She gives up and her eye slit narrows in anger.
Cyn: Tantrum.

She throws the table to the side and it barely hits Shadow who was still held to the wall.

Cyn turns to the basement door:...Brain blast. Oh, V. Could use some help in here.

Back in the present time, Uzi talked with Doll.

Doll: So how isShadow doing?

Uzi: He’s doing good. Not really much since he’s stuck as some little lizard without his abilities.

Doll: Unfortunate.

Uzi: Do you need something?

Doll: I need the keybug. Hmm? Shadow’s in trouble.

Uzi: Why do you need the keybug?

Doll: We’re a team right? You help them, I find out the keybug’s secrets.

Uzi: Alright, don’t do anything stupid or whatever.

Doll: Understood, I’m not going anywhere.

Uzi turned back and went back into the computer and she couldn’t hear Doll mutter: Yet.

Doll closed the door back. She looked down at the key in her hands.

Back in the past, V is trying to grab the tools.
Eldritch Cyn: Grab it. Just grab it. GRAB IT. Intimidating glare.

N: Whoa, Cyn! For an eldritch... uh, monster thingy—

Eldritch Cyn: The Solver of the Absolute Fabric, the void, the exponential end.

N: ...Peep this...?

Using his teeth, he grabs V's glasses and puts them back over her eyes. This allows her to regain consciousness.

N: I got you.

V: ...Gol... den... Retrievers have...

N: Gentle mouths, dude—

V smiled at N and looked down at her claws with such clear vision. Shadow watched and rolled his eyes, Uzi needed to come back very soon.

Eldritch Cyn: Grab.

Eldritch Cyn holds V up to the ceiling: Cute. False. Gross. True. Let's just delete your OS's, then.

She prepares to wipe N's memory clean: Goodbye, "buddy". Execute.

V in panic tries to free herself: N!

Cyn swings a hammer... But it doesn't smack N.
Eldritch Cyn was breaking in her voice: Wha-What-at i-is hap-pen-pen-pening?

Uzi regained control and then began to roll her one eye and she saw V up on the ceiling and Shadow at the wall and N in the chair. She released them all.

Shadow: Thanks, could have been here sooner though.

Uzi: Your girlfriend wanted to get the keybug.

Shadow: Doll? We are dating?

Uzi: I thought you two were.

V: That little drone tried to kill me!

Shadow: She’s okay I swear.

V: Of course you would say that.

Uzi glitched somewhat: U-ugh, so-r-ry. My freaking dad's stream—

N helps V up after her fall from the ceiling and then N realizes what’s going on. He smiles lightly.

N kooks over at Uzi: Uzi?

Uzi shied her head away: Don't freaking doxx me!

N: Thanks.

Shadow: Where’s D?

Uzi: We’ll pull him out.

V: You little narc! Get out of my head!

N and V wake up in Uzi's room, back in the present time. Uzi chuckles devilishly as she turns around in her chair to face them. She drops the smile when V threatens her with a chainsaw.

Shadow woke up and so did I. I shook my head and groaned. Shadow stood up and saw Doll on Uzi’s bed.

Shadow: Doll!

He hugged her and she was surprised and the keybug made a ;) icon.

Doll: Hello, Shadow. Are you okay?

Shadow: Went through a house of horrors but I’m okay.

D: Not to be that guy but my head hurt real bad. Ow!

V: You!

V takes a mad dash towards Doll who teleports away instantly. Shadow turned to face V: I told you she was okay!

V: It’s not so easy when you’ve been nearly killed by that drone. That worker needs to die!

Shadow groaned at V: Get over it, it’s not like you're innocent!

D: Shadow! V! Calm down!

V suddenly kicked Shadow back into the door and Shadow got up and swung a chair into V before he teleported away to find Doll.

D: Ugh! Why…?

Uzi: After him!

V flew out of the house with her bladed hands. Me, Uzi, and N followed her as fast as possible.

N stopped by Khan: Thanks for letting us stay over Mr. Uzi!

N waved at Khan before he continued following us. As we ran past we saw Lizzy, Thad, and Candy talking. We didn’t pay them any mind but they watched us.

Thad: Wonder what the rush is.

Candy: Lizzy, you thinking what I’m thinking?

Lizzy: Follow the deranged robots?

Candy: Yessssss!

Lizzy: Alright, let’s go then.

Thad: Alright, just let me grab my skateboard.

As we ran along we also based the recent bar that opened up and some worker drone looked over at us. He narrowed his eyes and watched us run away.

Jive: Hmm. Lend, Skorpion, I got us a job.

Lend walked up beside him: And that is?

Jive: Where going to follow those other Murder Drones. May have to deal with Parsec or lead us to her.

Lend: Alright… let’s hurry.

Skorpion: Where going after Uzi?

Jive: Her and her friends.

Skorpion: Then count me in! I’d be happy to keep my eyes on them.

Jive: Good to hear, let’s head out then.

Doll teleports back out to the winter wastelands, where she meets J and Tessa. Shadow teleports beside her and gasps: Doll? What are they doing here, and how are you even alive, J.

Doll shushed Shadow and conducted her business with the two.

Doll: Вот ваш ключ. (Here's your key.)

She throws the key to Tessa who catches it easily: Возьми меня с собой. в этом сделка— (Take me with you. That's the deal—)

Tessa shoots her, and misses. Doll side eyed them and held her eye. Shadow quickly covered her and stared back at them: What’s your problem?

Tessa: None at all. We’re just taking precautions. Now, since your with her you might as well come along, aye?

Shadow: I’m coming to keep her safe.

Tessa: Let's go then.

The group turns around and they see me, Uzi, N, and V.

They turn around and come face to face with Uzi, N, and V. V licked eyes with Doll, I locked eyes with Shadow, N with Tessa, V with J, and Uzi took a gaze over them all. Off in the distance Lizzy’s group watched and from the Colony door Jive’s gang watched.

Everyone: HUH—

Notes:

All the stuff that occurred in the mindscape still transfers to real life. This means Tessa is herself and not a skin suit. Anyways I hope some things were well done for you and that it was a fun read.

As always, comments, request, and let me know if I can do anything better.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 9: Question and Review

Summary:

So, I was wondering what to do when the thought of asking you guys what would you like your OCs to do and what you want them to do in the next few events, I want to do them justice so converse down below.

OC’s so far

D
Shadow
Candy
Skorpion
Jive
Lend
Dani

D and Shadow are planned. Your OC’s are up to you guys. You can make them die, win, gain powers (not too much power though), alignment with the main group, relations with other OC’s, etc.

As you know, we’re going into Dead End now, Doll will continue her path, Alice and Beau will appear, sentinels will be here, the main group is all the same but maybe some more from J and Tessa will not be so careless with the sentinels since she actually will be Tessa this time.

Decisions and request will end Tuesday and I will begin working on Dead End.

Notes:

Thanks for being such great readers. I love you all and Happy Halloween.

Also, every time I saw That’s All Folks! I’m meaning for it to be something Caine would say to his ‘contestants’ in TADC.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 10: MURDER DRONES(X): Dead End

Summary:

Going into a simple chase to find Cyn has more complications then first thought.

Notes:

And I’m back.

What a crazy week it’s been for us folks in the US. That’s all irrelevant now.

So I hope you all enjoy this part, I hope I did your OC’s justice. I’m not sure if I did them all that well and and J, Lizzy, Thad, Candy, and I suppose Dani as well have some limited screen time compared to the others.

I hope you enjoy.

Dead End

The first thing we see is a beautiful beach as seagulls squawk in the background. This beach is revealed to be a background on a computer monitor in an office setting.

The lights suddenly go out as a Worker Drone, Drone 029, hides under the desk. She peeks out to see the paralyzed body of a fellow drone stuck in a boot loop. She crawls slowly towards her colleague as a claw emerges from the shadows, it taps just like a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. She doesn't notice this, however, as she finally reaches her fallen friend.
A blue light flashes and she drags the drone by the foot. She stops to resume her hiding position, until she works up the courage to finish dragging the drone. But before she can reach it, two creatures, Sentinels, grab the drone and tear it apart, oil spilling out everywhere.

She quickly resumes hiding when a blue light shines before her. A Sentinel has found her location. As she tries to escape, the Sentinel flashes a beam of light into her eyes as she makes a distorted scream, boot looping her. The Sentinel crawls down and feasts on her.

All of this has been captured on a security camera. The Sentinels were a security measure for when a drone became ‘rampant’ and trying to overthrow their human owner. Many drones had found ways to escape the dinosaur modeled beast.

In the Colony

Watching from a computer screen was a glaring green eyed face. On his cameras he watched the Worker Drones, the Murder Drones, and strangely enough, a human. All of them were standing around, looking at one another.

He stabbed the screen when he saw J on it with a claw from out of his back. He used three other claws and walked out of the Colony, moving right past a worker playing cards, as usual.

He moved outside and began to seethe with rage and ready shoulder mounted blasters aiming for the Murder Drones.

Dani: No escape this time.

When we last left our heroes, they had just encountered J, Doll, and Tessa.

N: T-Tessa...?

Tessa hugs him: N! You remember–

She begins coughing: Tall, handsome... Air's toxic...

She notices Uzi and reaches her hand out: Who is this little–

Uzi bites her finger: Ah!

Uzi: Uzi! Why are you here, human?!

She notices J: Real tired of killing this one.

J strokes her hair back in a mock: Effective drones were cloned more.

N chuckles in familiarity: It is you.

V: Classic J.

Tessa: Cyn disappeared on Earth–

J: Boss ran away.

Tessa became annoyed: We mutually disengaged. Her last known act was siccing you lot on the human exoplanets.

N: Why?

J: That's what we're trying to figure out, bozo.

My eye flashes with a glitch and Tessa turns toward me: Have we met before?

D: Yeah, you were younger and I was a raptor.

Tessa: I never did thank you, did I?

Shadow: Look out!

A green laser shot out from the Colony door and whizzed past J. More lasers shot out toward them and Shadow moved them away as the lasers went towards N.

V scanned the area and saw a drone: We got a Doc Ock drone shooting at us.

Uzi: Must be Dani.

D: Who? And why is his name similar to mine?

Shadow: How about you focus on those small robots coming towards us instead of running your mouth.

D: Okay, I hear you.

N, V, and J shoot their gatling guns toward the bulldog sized robots. They were quite strong and they rolled closer before deploying their four black arms to try and snap at the Murder Drones.
V sent her laser beam into one and it sliced in half. One got close to Tessa until N slammed his body right through it.

Doll began to take her leave with the Keybug in hand.

Shadow rushed after her quickly: Doll! Stop!

Tessa: We need that Keybug.

J: Yeah, but boss, we’re pinned down.

J’s words became even more true as she was jumped on by Dani who impaled one of his claws right into her abdomen and then aimed for her head: No more running, J!

Tessa sliced her sword against Dani’s leg claws and he leaped off. His robots began to crawl over at a faster rate.

D: Let’s take flight!

We all sprouted our wings and flew into the air and away from Dani but he began following us as fast as possible. Tessa used N as her way of flying around.

Tessa: What is that crazy Worker’s problem?

Uzi: V or J probably killed his family or something, happened a lot before we made a truce.

N: Hey, how are we gonna find Doll and Shadow?

J: Down there, I see them moving into that hole.

Tessa: Take us in.

We flew down into the hole but somehow they were still ahead of us. Uzi brought up a flashlight using her Absolute Solver while I used a set of night vision. Tessa stayed next to her childhood friends and we entered the area.

At the battleground

Jive was calculating what all just happened. A newcomer had made their appearance, a vendetta against the Murder Drones apparently, and now the main group had fled.

Jive: Skorpion, what do you know about him?

Skorpion: His name is Dani, he’s very smart but very shy and depressed, he refuses any help offered to him.

Lend: No wonder he’s depressed. Perhaps I could…

Jive: No, don’t even think about it. He hates Disassembly Drones. Best to avoid him.

Skorpion: Jive, I have a request?

Jive: I’m listening.

Skorpion: I want to hunt down V.

Jive: Why?

Skorpion’s tone lowered: She’s the reason that I lost a dear friend.

Jive stared at her: And why should allow this vendetta to possibly endanger our lives?

Skorpion became timid and shy but she wasn’t going to back down: Please, help me.

Jive: I can’t agree to this.

Skorpion: Fine, I’ll take her down myself.

Skorpion ran away from them and Lend looked over at Jive. Her gaze was stern.

Jive: What?

Lend: Your not going to help her? You know that she’s down there.

Jive: I’m aware. Exactly why I don’t want to go down there.

Lend: We have too, her mind isn’t clear right now.

Jive: Ugh, fine. We’ll help her, just stay low.

Dani was moving over to the chasm and he looked downward into its gaping blackness. He motioned for his robots to enter and enter they did, dropping like pods from the sky, landing without injury. He climbed down once they landed and detected no present threats.

Thad, Lizzy, and Candy were all keeping a safe distance but they were definitely interested, especially Candy.

Candy: We have to follow them.

Thad shrugged: I’m sure they're fine.

Candy: But don’t you want to see what Uzi and N are doing?

Thad: Last time that happened, I almost got my face ripped off.

Lizzy: What’s the worst that could happen, let’s go!

Lizzy took a selfie with them and they all marched their way toward the big chasm. It took them longer since they didn’t have any modes of faster movement, Thad’s skateboard wasn’t going to work in this snow either.

We all landed down and walked along the way when Tessa stopped us.

Tessa: J, relay hand, Cyn's orders.

J brings up a screen: Step one: Clear drop zone of life and construct spire. Step two–

Tessa: Enter labs with this symbol.

She tears down some large paper to reveal a poster behind it. Taped near the bottom: CABIN FEVER

V: That symbol again?

Tessa: Not too much to go off, but if Cyn wants these labs, we burn them down. That keybug's our way in.
She walks towards the edge of the scaffolding: J, mind my ship. Return as quickly as possible.

Tessa tosses J the keys. J glances at N and V with uncertainty. She flies off and salutes Tessa: Of course, boss.

Tessa continues to walk, only for Uzi to stand before her, blocking her path.

Uzi: Why involve Doll? What's happening to... her?

Tessa: She reckons the humans did something to her folks down here. Gave them a sickness she inherited.

Uzi: ...And?

Tessa: I think she's right...

Tessa speaks to N and V: Coming or what?

This place was a dark and damp cavern below the surface which was weird among the squally bright snowy land we had grown accustomed to.

N: Is the secret elevator... labeled?

No one answered. V rolls her eyes at him.

D: The way I see it, we find Doll and Shadow, we’ll find the elevator.

As Tessa walks, she accidentally kicks a severed Drone arm. It rolls as she sees the piles of corpses. Everyone looks around at their besmirched setting. N looks like he's ready to vomit.

Tessa: Riiiight... Might be some security, specifically against... you guys.

D: What are they exactly?

Tessa: They look like prehistoric dingos.

D: Hmm, alright, I think I have a work around to that.

Uzi looks to her left. There's some writing on the wall...

DON'T LOOK
THE LIGHT

Scared, she slowly reaches out for N's hand...

Tessa: Human-made security this human can control. Hehehehe! Maybe…

D: Leave the raptor to me.

V: Anything to screw Cyn's plan.

N to Uzi: And for Mom backstory. Right, dude?

Uzi: ...Yeah.

They continue walking until they come across a directory. It states that the secret elevator is north of their direction. N giggles excitedly over being right and turns to his friends for validation. V's eye just twitches, while Uzi gives a supportive nod.

Tessa: Huh. Righty-ho. Sources say that way–

Before she can finish, she gets dragged off by her foot.

Tessa rapidly: Except I'm going this way, so save me if you can, THANKS!

With Dani

Dani moved along the area and his robots lit the area up as they searched it over. They came to a corpse pile and Dani smiled. He went over and began picking through it and he found a device to modify his back claws. He took the devices and attacked them, now he could shoot lasers just like the Murder Drones could, payback to them.

He moved along and suddenly J whizzed over his head.

He quickly shot a massive laser toward her but she was able to dodge fast enough. The roof was pierced by the giant greenish yellow beam. Dani commanded his robots to attack and they did so in an instant.

J fired back with her gatling gun at one robot which took it out. The others kept chasing though. A robot leaped toward her and she used her blades to slice it in half. The two halves fell to the side but then a bullet hit J’s wing bolt and she fell down onto her legs.

Dani halted his and his robots' advance when he saw the opposing group. Skorpion, Jive, and Lend. He grimaced.

Dani: So you and the bartender are working with that demon to take down another demon?

Jive: What did he just call Lend?

Skorpion motioned her hand, respectfully, to quiet Jive and allow her to handle this: She’s not yours to kill. And I’m not working with a demon, I’m working with an associate to avenge a fallen friend.

Dani: So you know the pain they can cause? Then allow me to finish her off. Then we can work together to kill that demon next to you and then V and N.

Skorpion: We’re not killing them, they’ve helped us.

Dani: You support their actions then?

Skorpion: Not all of their decisions but most.

Dani: So you are just like them, like Uzi. Then die!

Dani fired all four of his claws toward Skorpion and it slammed her back. Jive turned and used his controlled Absolute Solver to slowly patch her back up.

Lend glew bright yellow and pulled her scythe down: You. Hurt. My. Friend. Now. I. Hurt. You!

Lend dashed over J and right toward Dani he prepared his claws to hold her off. His robots attacked Lend but her tail stabbed into one and her scythe slammed into another one before she dashed through a wave, then another wave, and then into Dani.

Dani landed back into the pile of corpses and Lend swung her scythe toward his face. He stabbed his claws into her arm and threw her up into the ceiling. He then shot his lasers into her and she was a boiling pile of silver.

Dani: Hah, now, back to you traitors.

Jive: Stay back, worker.

Dani: I don’t listen to those who support killing innocents.

Jive: Answer me this Dani, if you had to eat and kill to survive, would you murder innocents.

Dani: That’s an illogical question. I’m not a Murder Drone but I know about them. J killed innocents for a company, that is not justifiable.

Jive pulled out an Absolute Solver chain and swung it: I can’t let you hurt us so here. You. Go!

He swung the chain around and threw it around Dani and was held still as it bonded him to the ground. He grunted and buzzed and he whistled for his robots to release him which they did.

They sawed or heated up the chains to a melting point and they fell off. Dani rose back up and then saw a yellow glow from above him. He looked up and his face dropped into fear.

Lend regenerated back to her full self and she plunged her fist through his chest. He coughed oil out and the rest of his robot forces latched onto her and moved her off. He made his escape, following J as she flew up quickly with her repaired wing.

Lend slung all the robots off with her wings and growled and swore in Russian. She walked over to Jive and kneeled down and helped a repaired Skorpion up.

Jive: Lend?

Lend: I’m fine, is she fine?

Skorpion held her arm: Yes, I’m fine. I didn’t know he could do that.

Jive: He’ll pay later. Your mission comes before that.

Skorpion: Thank you, Jive. Let’s keep going then.

Back with the gang

The gang tries to find where Tessa got dragged off to. While doing so, they stop at the sound of a child's laughter. A little white baby in a pod with a warning label laid on the ground playing the recording.

Uzi: Shoot the baby immediately?

N: That's not soon enough!

The baby robot head suddenly grows legs and runs off before N could hit it. Suddenly, a long arm lands in front of them. The arm switches to a detonator-like device. They turn around to see a new worker drone.

This new drone had orange eyes, antlers with lights on them, an orange glowing chest, and a black dress on, a bit tattered.

D: Oh come on.

Alice chuckled: Hey, surface slickers.

An EMP explosion occurs and everything goes black but I feel down a hole instead of being taken like the others.

The sound of an axe chopping is heard as Uzi wakes up. She looks around her as we see a magnet attached to her head. She looks to her right to see Alice chopping off the head of a Drone. She tries to get up, but to no avail.

Alice: Sentinels picked at this one. I try and not damage good parts. Of course, some parts are more valuable than others, ain't they?

She pulls back a curtain to reveal V clamped down.
V had a wicked smile: More valuable.

Alice gets ready to chop her head off when Uzi stops her.

Uzi: Whoa, hey, cut that thing up and you're gonna get a big creepy worm. An improvement.

Alice: Nah, heat keeps 'em sluggish.

She hops on top of an oven and opens the door, revealing the contents inside: Absolute Solver creatures in a non-hostile form.

Alice: Ain't our first rodeo.

She closes the door with a smile.

Uzi was beyond grossed out: Okay, that's enough of this.

She tries to activate her Absolute Solver but it doesn't work.

Alice chuckles in her heavy southern accent: Dealt with witches 'fore, too.

She brings Uzi's face up close to hers: Though, ain't seen 02 since she left us to die...!

In another room, Tessa is bound to a table.

Tessa: Little buddy, you're gonna get red and sad if you try that with me.

Beau, the baby drone, is working on N, who seems to enjoy this, for some reason. N was giggling like a child as he was sawed open: It tickles! The bad version, though!

Beau pauses for a bit looking sad and maybe even disturbed.

N: Doing great, dude.

Tessa: N, whose side–

She quiets down and takes in a deep breath.

N: Tried sawing there?

Beau lowers his saw to a specific spot. N shakes his head "no". Beau moves his saw a little bit to N's right. N winks, indicating "yes". Just as he's about to get to work the radio goes off.

Alice over the radio: Beau, we've got Nori's kid here!

What sounds like a crunching bite followed by Uzi's laughter can be heard in the background: Need more sedatives. It's bitey.

Beau grabs a couple more magnets and leaves. N waves goodbye, and Beau peeks his head in to wave back.

Tessa: Ugh, finally, the code. Lordy...

 

She takes the magnet off her head: Walk and talk?

Back with Uzi.

She gets the two magnets stuck to her head as she spits a severed piece of Alice's finger in Beau's face.

Uzi: How'd you know my mom? Was she cool? She didn't suck, did she?

Alice doesn't answer any of these, focusing on replacing her missing finger piece with a spare. Before she can get back to work she commands Beau: Back to the others!

Beau hurriedly exits the room. On a monitor behind Alice, Uzi sees Tessa and N escaping their room. A bright light is suddenly shown in her face.

Alice: You're a lot like her, I'll say. 'Cept her yellow eyes.

She prepares to sever Uzi's finger with a hand pruner.

Uzi was batting her away: Easy, creep. You've got the wrong–

A blade is suddenly sunk into her hand.

Alice: Nori, right? Sure though imploding all them folks was pretty slick.

Alice gets ready to sever her finger again. Uzi tries to use her Absolute Solver to stop her, to no avail.

Uzi’s voice was glitching: Wait, stop. Seriously, what are you talking about?

SNAP!

V winces as she sees what was happening to Uzi. She would deny it but she didn’t want Uzi to get hurt, she had put their lives in danger, yes, but she still helped solve their biggest problems.

Beau enters V and N's room, only to discover their missing. He goes out to warn Alice. Nearby, N watches Beau from behind a desk while Tessa is typing away on a computer.

N: They've gotta be in there, right?

Tessa: No worries, we'll save V.

She gestures for N to sit down, but he kicks his chair away.

N in stern voice: And Uzi.

Tessa turns back to the computer. With a few keystrokes, the room is filled with a yellow glow from the monitor.

Tessa: Wanna take a gander at Earth, N?

N: No, Tessa, we don't have time–

Before he can finish, something on the monitor catches his attention, something beyond shocking. Beyond terrifying.

With D

I snapped awake and saw the giant pillar of metal sticking through my chest. I hissed and felt the oil on my hand. I turned my hand into claws and sliced it off.

I stood up and retracted the claws. I had fallen far down into this chasm. I tried to bring my wings out but it seemed that I suffered too much internal damage to use them.

A light glow came from the darkness of the chasm. I grabbed the metal pole’s fragments and held it as a weapon. The figure came closer, it was Shadow.

D: Oh it’s you, we’ve been looking for you this whole time, stop running off.

Shadow: Dude, Doll was in danger, I had too.

D: And where is she even?

Shadow: In danger.

Shadow hissed as he held his shoulder which had a faint bite mark in it.

D: Woah, what happened?

Shadow: A cybernetic vampire bat guy, like the wolf we fought.

D: And he has Doll?

Shadow: Yes. I would have gotten out of her but this hole nullifies all of our Absolute Solver stuff.

D: I might be able to use my claws.

Shadow: Wait, try something else.

D: Like what?

Shadow: Turn into that velociraptor form you had in the dreamscape, you should be able to do that.

D: I had planned that for the Sentinels but I can use it now.

I concentrated and took a deep breath in and then out and a green glow surrounded me and I turned into the velociraptor from the dreamscape.

D: Better hurry, I might go feral.

Shadow rolled his eyes: Alright, Dinobot, just get us up there.

Shadow held on to me as I leaped onto rocks and climbed my way up the chasm and onto solid ground again. Shadow fixed his wound since we escaped that dead zone and we moved toward the others, I could smell them.

Meanwhile, in V and Uzi's room, Beau is looking through the security monitors for any sign of Tessa and N.

Alice shoves Beau aside: They can't leave the office, idjit!

She turns back to Uzi: Can't get back in our rooms, neither.

She presses a couple buttons and two doors close, one of which leading into the room their in now. She presses a third button. This opens a door to allow Sentinels loose.

Uzi was terrified: Wait... What is that...?

Alice sits down with "popcorn" that was actually batteries, and watches the Sentinels roam the office complexes. One Sentinel devours the security camera in front of it. Uzi continues to free herself as Alice finds entertainment in the Sentinels' rampage.

To N's horror, photos on the monitor show Earth getting blown up. It was in bits, its orange core glowing dimly. The space around it looked dead, the sight was mind bending. But what did this?

Tessa: We know it mutates in damaged AI. It took Cyn as a host, then it took everything. The humans here saw what was happening at home. Thought they could understand it.

She pulls up a security feed of a possessed Nori before the feed gets cut out: All they did was spread it.

N: Then Uzi... You can fix her, right? That's why you're here?

Tessa gets up and takes N's hand: I'm here to find which drones were infected. When we get to the labs and find that list, I'll need you to choose the universe over one little drone, N. Before she's not herself anymore.

N contemplates this until suddenly, a Sentinel appears in front of him and attacks him. Alice continues watching this while Uzi struggles more to free herself. Just as the Sentinel is about to go in for the kill Tessa tries to stop it.

Tessa: Hey, fella. Me, human, order you to be a nice dingo, please?

Tessa extends her hand out for the Sentinel. It seems to have a change of heart but it tries to bite her instead, it didn’t succeed as I bit down on its throat and held them down with my sickle claw.

D: Run!

Tessa and N bolted away as the Sentinel kicked me off. Shadow quickly took his own path away to find Doll.

The Sentinel goes crazy until it smacks against a wall and collapses to the ground. A couple more Sentinels appear to corner Tessa as Alice continues to watch until the batteries levitate in the air. She looks behind her. Beau and various equipment are floating as well.

Uzi/Absolute Solver: Oh, don't mind me.

Uzi unleashes her Absolute Solver to destroy the door buttons, thus opening the doors and giving the Sentinels more free roaming in the area. The Sentinels make their way to Alice's room.

Alice slowly closes the door before the Sentinels show up. Her face was in sheer terror and she was practically screaming with shaky breaths.

Alice: BEAU! HELP ME WITH–

It's too late. The Sentinels are here. Alice is flashed and paralyzed as the Sentinels enter the room, crushing Alice under their feet, thus getting rid of her for good. Beau frees V and gives her a salute as he gets mauled by a Sentinel, rest in peace little lad. V goes over to Uzi's table and gets cornered before she could save her. Just as V tries to fight back, the Sentinels have already all been killed. V looks over at Uzi, who's now unconscious.

Meanwhile Tessa woke N back up.

Tessa pokes N's face: Wakey, wakey.

N wakes up groggily. I walked over to them all. My green eye observing them with subtle but strange movements.

Tessa: Don't say I never did anything for–
V lands in the room, Uzi being carried on her back.

N: V! Is Uzi–

V: Hurt. We're leaving.

Tessa: I can take a squizz at–

V threateningly: You said you could control the Sentinels!

Tessa: I... At least they can't boot loop me, but we'll just have to–

D: The Sentinels must have been online hacked to attack humans in case they ever came back, a precaution possibly made by Cyn.

Tessa: Let’s go with that.

V turns to leave: Do whatever you want. N?

No response came from him.

Tessa: It's okay, N. I haven't been honest with V yet.

V: What did she tell you?

At that moment, Uzi regains consciousness. I looked over at her and used my snout to lift her up, keeping her back straight and upright.

Uzi was groaning: Ow... My freaking head....

She sees N: N?

N waves. Uzi runs and hugs him, and he silently returns the embrace. V stares at Tessa, her cold stare reflecting off Tessa's helmet. I rolled my eyes at their petty silent argument, even if I could understand it.

With Shadow

Shadow was moving as quickly as he could to find Doll. He walked through some office doors to see a vampire bat with a humanoid appearance talking with Parsec.

Parsec: So those two failed. Clean up their mess and stop playing with your prey, you’ve feasted long enough, Spire.

Spire: Understood, master.

Parsec teleported away and Spire turned with outstretched wings: Come to witness your damsel get feasted upon?

Shadow brought his Absolute Solver out: Let her go now!

Spire: Quite the bold one. Thankfully when I bit you earlier, I adapted some of your power.

He brought out a more red Absolute Solver and he smirked with a toothy smile: I stole from your girlfriend too.

Shadow yelled out in rage and began flinging random metal and concrete at Spire who blocked them: You hurt her!

Doll was beginning to wake and she saw the fight taking place. She began to pick herself up. Shadow and Spire went at it as they clashed their Absolute Solver attacks against one another.

Spire: You can’t win.

He made an Absolute Solver mace and slammed it right into Shadow who was knocked all the way back. Spire stabbed his metal wings into Shadow who began to wince in pain.

He was turned over and Spire went to bite his neck and suck the oil and power dry. A bullet went into his head and Spire fell over. Oil spurted out and Doll crushed it with her foot and spat on him.

Doll: No one bites me and lives.

Doll helped Shadow up and was then hugged by him. Her face widened in surprise.

Shadow: I’m so glad you're okay.

Doll: Your heroic stand up came in handy. Now we have to stop the Planet Eater.

Shadow: Planet Eater?

In the office

The Sentinel that I took down awakens, its icy blue eyes changing to blood red. Its radar indicates footprints nearby. It follows the trail until it comes across a message: HOLD STILL

Uzi, N, V, and Tessa watch from above. Uzi silently looks at N.

Uzi silently: U GOOD?

N doesn't respond. His mind was racked by what Tessa said and also about Earth’s destruction.

Uzi asked with her visor: TALK LATER?

N responded with his own visor: IT SUCKS PRETTY HARD

Uzi made an >:3 expression on her visor.

Suddenly, the Sentinel leaves. They get back to the ground when, in the distance, they see... Doll, stuck in a boot loop and holding the bug in her hand.

Insect: PLEASE PLACE ME ON PROXIMITY READER (CABIN FEVER LABS).

Uzi: That's... convenient.

V: It's a trap!

Uzi: Yeah, no... Nevermind.

Uzi begins to unleash her Absolute Solver.

N And V: DON'T!

They both stop her with their hands.

Tessa from afar: Oi!

She's holding the insect, spinning it around: Bloody convenient, eh?

The trio make their way towards her. Uzi and N hold hands along the way. They briefly disconnect, but reconnect after a few seconds. After catching up with Tessa, V notices this romantic sight. I smiled when I saw it.

V: Ew.

Tessa: Please don't date my robot.

Uzi walked up to Tessa, angrily: He's his own person!

She spoke to V next with Les disdain: You, ew! You're mean!

Suddenly, the insect is lifted up. It flies back into Doll's hand, revealing it was, indeed, a trap. Doll uses her powers to call an elevator and open all the doors in the area. She falls down the shaft as the elevator arrives.

Shadow leaped down from the ceiling: Stay back, D, I know what happened to you and I can’t let you interfere now.

D: What are you talking about?

Shadow: No time to explain.

He jumped down the elevator.

D snarled: You’ve got to be kidding me.

The Sentinels have arrived and we’re all growing lowly.

Tessa: Uh-oh. Umm, how are we getting out of here?
The red-eyed Sentinel examines the scene; most of the Sentinels turn their noses and walk away, uninterested. Tessa smugly leans on her sword.

Tessa: Guess we scared them off?

But then, after flashing at Tessa to no success, the red-eyed Sentinel slithers down. It licks its teeth, then roars a hearty roar and slowly advances—it's acquired a new taste for humans and drones alike. Tessa is shocked out of her bliss and hurriedly readies her sword, while V crawls to the ceiling. Ready to aid in her friends' escape, Uzi begins to unleash her Absolute Solver to break a hole into the back of the elevator.

D: I roar at the red eyed Sentinel and leap forward to battle them.

N: Uzi, no!

Her Absolute Solver suddenly glows yellow, causing her fingers to crack, bend, and contort in all the ways no finger should. It produces a black hole that blows a wide, oozing opening into the elevator.
Tessa: N, handle her.

The Sentinel regurgitates a severed Murder Drone arm and, clasping it firmly in its mouth, fires a bullet at Tessa only for V to get in the way and catch the bullet with her bare claws. She tosses the bullet back at the gun arm, disarming it. It turns out she's wearing her old, broken glasses, which sharpened her vision enough to perform such a feat.

V: Did I get it?

D: Hell yeah! Nice work. Let’s hurry.

Uzi's AbsoluteSolver is out of control, distorting the hole in front of her. She panics, panting heavily as she tries restraining her glitched arm. Left with no other choice, N hacks the mangled hand off with his sword. For a split second as she falls back, her head snaps towards N, eyes gleaming yellow and mouth twisted into a grin, showing him a single message: MISS ME?

N catches her in his arms. Uzi coughs up oil as her eyes switch between purple and yellow, her voice overlapping with the Absolute Solver's.

Uzi/AbsoluteSolver was severely glitching: What the hell is going on?

Tessa: Bugger, that's bad. Come on, team!

Tessa pulls Uzi and N into the elevator, only for it to get stuck.

I ram my head against the wall as I get puppeteers by Cyn: Everyone, leave. Now!

N: V, come on!

V isn't listening. She's still fighting the red-eyed Sentinel. Still clutching the severed arm, the Sentinel extends its blade and deftly swings at V. With her vision in peak condition, however, V's robo-dinosaur sword fight ends in seconds as she knocks the Sentinel to the ground.

Just as she readies her arm cannon at the Sentinel, another pulls out the power supply to the elevator, causing it to rise slightly. With both sides of the elevator wide open, the team inside are sitting ducks. The Sentinel flashes its lights; V whips her head back to avoid the light, causing her glasses to fly off her face. Another Sentinel crushes the glasses beneath its foot. V is surrounded.

V: Hey, um–

N: NO, NO, NO! V, WE NEED YOU!

V: ...Nah.

V speaks to Uzi: Uzi?

Uzi looks at V, her expression grim.

V: ...I trust you.

V slashes the elevator cables with her laser cannon.

N: V, PLEASE!

V doesn't get in. With a resigned smile, she gives one final salute as the Sentinels surround her and the cables snap, sending the elevator down, everyone screams as they plummet. The sentinels close in and go to fight V.

I break Cyn’s control for a moment and glow my mouth green and shoot a green laser into at least half the sentinels. They all fall and V looks at me.

D: I can’t leave you to die.

V: I won’t die, now if you don’t go make sure they stay alive, I’ll kill you next.

D: Yes ma’am.

I switch back to my drone form and fall down the elevator shaft before we fall onto some rocks and get jostled into an unconscious state.

With Jive

He stared out at the deserted office room and saw Alice’s crushed head, he looked at some Absolute Solver’s swimming around.

Jive: Hey, Lend. Want to burn that stuff?

Lend looks over and gasps. She stared at Alice’s open hand and growled: How could someone do this to them so effectively?

Skorpion: Look on the cameras, we got dinosaur robots here.

Jive: Sentinels, them experimental guards don’t seem so offline now.

Lend hissed and pulled her two sickles out and slashed them against a Molotov Jive threw and the room burned down.

Jive: Hmm, we should hurry, the sentinels are swarming V.

Lend: Jive, one of Parsec’s forces is here.
Jive: She might be close by then. Can you feel her presence?

Lend: Yes, she’s quite close.

Jive: Then we have to hurry quickly. Skorpion, we may have to push your vendetta aside or else we’re not going to have a planet left to live on.

Skorpion: What? Why not?

Jive: Where about to face off against the Planet Eater.

Notes:

Thanks for reading as always. Let me know how you felt about your OC’s, the part, leave comments, maybe request.

J and the other OC’s shall be used more in the next bit.

If I didn’t do any OC justice then just let me know and I’ll fix it. I’ll be back soon with the next part.

I think this part was my weakest part of the story yet sadly but with your help, I could improve it if need be.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 11: MURDER DRONES (X): Mass Destruction

Summary:

It’s all twist and turns and chaos in this addition to the story. Alliances are tested, characters are split, mysteries unraveled, and a couple battles leading up to the big event. Whose coming out on top?

Notes:

Surprise! I finished this little bit while bored out of my skull so here you go. I had fun making it and I’m glad to please you all. I hope you enjoy this new part. Without further ado, have fun reading.

Mass Destruction

In the Past

Wind howls in the night. Thunder and lightning follow not long after. Outside a cathedral, two Sentinels stay chained as a "FOR LEASE" sign hangs out, indicating that this cathedral was converted into a lab. A slight downpour rained down across the roof of the cathedral, the area was noise and an ominous dark black hole was above the sky.

Inside, scientists scatter about, hard at work.

Ridley: Science holding strong, sir! Math...

Above, a Drone is being held via chains. A card floats by reading NORI 002. Nori's face indicates she is under control by the Absolute Solver. A scientist looks up, thinking she is staring at him.

Ridley: Dr. Chambers!

Mitchell gasps and looks at his name tag: O-Oh, no -- I-I-I'm not...

He looks around and realizes he accidentally put on the doctor’s uniform. Panic would have been on his face if it could even be seen.

Mitchell whispers to the nearest worker: Is this guy important?

Suddenly, Nori detaches herself from above. She lashes out at Chambers knocking his clipboard out of his hands. The other scientists begin attempting to contain her.

Ridley: Chambers!

She tosses a card at him: Get 48!

The card says "YEVA" which was Doll’s mother.
Mitchell: Right, so...

He chuckles nervously, needing to act like he knows what he’s doing: This a doctor-specific thing?
The bishop, also masked, walks up to Nori and pulls out a crucifix, she wields it like a sword, ready to use it.

Mitchell: 'Cause I'm on it!

He flees the cathedral not wanting to be in the terrifying location any longer than he needs too.

Mitchell rushes outside into the heavy rain. He looks back to see Nori's face as the doors close. After narrowly avoiding the two Sentinels, he makes his way to a shaft.

Inside, he passes by some lockers until he notices one with the number 48 on it. Yeva's locker. He opens it to find Yeva inside. Apparently, she was playing Tetris when he interrupted. Mitchell indicates she is needed, much to her chagrin.

She pauses her game and steps out from her cramped position and then looks at Mitchell and then outside and they begin waking back to the cathedral.
Back outside, the duo rush back to the cathedral. Michell looks past him. The two Sentinels have broken from their chains and the sky had grown wider and much darker.

Mitchell opens the doors, except Yeva isn't with him. He looks around and sees Ridley examining Nori's body.

Ridley: Chambers! Get over here!

Mitchell: Y-Yep, um...

He steps back, holding the door from being opened. Outside, Yeva tries to push the doors open with no luck. They were locked shut from an Absolute Solver seal.

Mitchell: So, I... couldn't find 48?

Ridley: Whatever!

Mitchell: R-Right. Uh...

He begins to slowly make his way towards her., very cautiously: Here I... come...

As he walks, he notices a trail of blood on the floor. He looks in the shadows. It's the bishop. Before Mitchell could react. the bishop is dragged by the Absolute Solver into a large hole leading underground. At that moment, the computers all glow red as the cathedral starts to quake and fall apart. Mitchell grabs the crucifix and rushes to avoid being crushed. He looks forward. Nori, under the control of the Absolute Solver, rises up from the abyss. She advances towards him.

Absolute Solver/Nori: Thanks for the new host... intern.

She summons the crucifix her way, ready to absolutely destroy it.

Absolute Solver/Nori: MacGuffin.

The crucifix flings it back at Mitchell and the video cuts and pauses.Static plays on a screen. The crucifix is hovered before the screen. A heart creature with a hat and a purple glow is sitting in front of the monitor, examining the crucifix, before it tosses it to the side. It clears items off the desk, save for a map. It examines it, and makes its way off the desk and onto the floor. It crawls away, bringing a hammer and a chest with it, and leaves the cathedral. It walks past a monitor displaying an elevator reaching a ground floor.

 

With the main gang

Uzi, N, me, and Tessa all land out of the elevator and underground as the elevator is blocked by falling rocks, my wings where a little bent up since I used them to protect Uzi and Tessa from the fall damage. N quickly stared at the wall and fired missiles after missile at the rocks in the hopes of getting back up there to save V.

N shooting the boulders: Uzi! Help! Use your Solver!

Tessa: N, watch it!

D: N, calm down! She’s scared. V can handle herself, I saw her.

N suddenly grabbed me by my throat and held me up: Why did you leave her? You know she can’t take them all! Why didn’t you just stay up there and for once didn’t listen to her? Why?

D getting choked: She told me to protect you guys, I had too agh!

N’s face flashes with realization and he drops me: D, I’m sorry. I got angry.

D feeling his throat: It’s okay, agh, you’re worried for your friend, I am too.

N then turns around. In all his efforts to move the boulders aside, he almost and unknowingly tossed some at Uzi who was cowering down.

Uzi was panting and whimpering in fear: I... don't think I sh-should... I'm sorry, N...

N: Oh, no, no. It's okay. Uzi, I’m sorry for my outburst. It’s okay.

Tessa brandished her blade: Uzi, let's have you sit this one out, eh? Box over there. Robots like boxes, right?

Uzi: What? No, I-

Tessa: N?

N spoke hesitantly: ...Uzi, there, um... might be some stuff down here that you don't want to see...

Uzi gets up: ...Ohhhh, what the hell is going on?

N: Nothing! We don't know everything yet, but...
He turns to face Tessa: We're not gonna hurt you. OK?

Uzi: ...Hurt me?

D: Uzi, calm down. N and Tessa just want to keep you safe. I’ll handle the stuff they need fixed.

Tessa: Speaking of you, what was that friend of yours saying? The truth about you?

D: I don’t know. I’ve been thinking on it slightly.

Uzi’s Solver activated slightly. She attempts to contain it, but it blows up, causing the tunnel to collapse. N attempts to reach out to Uzi, but she backs away as she and N are separated by the falling boulders and debris, I ended up on Uzi’s side leaving N alone.

Back on the surface

Thad: Aaand you won't tell me why I had to join you two cause…?

Lizzy: I'm a good friend, and secrets are blackmail. And it's not about football.

Thad: Okay. Does your secret friend want to know about football, or-

Candy: This friend certainly doesn’t. Right, Lizzy?
Lizzy: Definitely not football.

The ground trembles, sending the nearby car alarms to go off, and Lizzy, Candy, and Thad to be lifted a little bit into the air. After a few seconds, they land back on the ground. They look over to see that Tessa's ship has made its way over and lands as J flies out and into the cave in front of them.

Thad: ...So, is that related to the thing you're looking fo--

Lizziy: No.

She laughs: Yeah, yeah. No, it is.

Lizzy texts on her phone and Candy watches her. Thad just sat on his skateboard and waited for her to finish.

However, claws stab through the snow as Dani was encroaching on J. He stared up at her and then used his new blaster enhancement to fire a devastating beam toward her.

J’s eyes flicked just in time to see the laser and she dodged with a back flip. Her gaze turned angry.
J: Great, I have to deal with you, persisted bug.
Dani didn’t make any small talk as he unloaded smaller lasers from his claws that moved toward J. Her face flashed in worry before she flapped her wings back and fired her gatling gun.

Dani leaped toward her with his claws providing the perfect launchpad. He then shot them out as grapples and they wrapped around J who struggled and groaned before getting slammed into 20 inches deep of snow.

Dani dropped down with a menacing glare. He approached her with a twisted smile. J grimaced back and then began to turn her hand into a chainsaw and tried to cut the snow around her that was falling down from the heavy claws and metal body of Dani.

He reached himself down there and placed his feet down onto her chest. J huffed and stabbed her tail right into Dani’s back and he screamed. Distracted by his pain, she kicked him into the snow and she flew upwards.

Meanwhile...

N’a visor screen flashed letters on it. SYSTEM STATUS: KNOCKED TF OUT...SYSTEM STATUS: REBOOTING

N wakes up. His hand has been pinned underneath a boulder but he wasn’t worried about that, instead, he was worried about the others.

N: UZI! UZI!!! TESSA! D!

Nothing. He realizes the only way to find Uzi is to free himself. He turned his free arm into a saw, he took a mentally deep breath to prepare himself.
N braced himself: I deserve this, I deserve this, I deserve this...!

Before he could proceed, he hears a faint giggle coming from the other end of the tunnel. He looks forward and sees someone waving at him... V?
It wasn’t V. It was a manipulation. Instead the figure ahead had a centipede body slanking off into the shadows of the cave.

N: ...AAAH-

After some running, Uzi stops to catch her breath. She stops to look at a sign on board.
Dear OF Staff (human),
Due to lack of progress in units (sans 048), Team 06 (Ridley) is tasked with reattempting 002's recovery VIA failsafe USB (660b).
THE EXPECTED COMPLETION DATE IS:
Sept. 27, 11:59 don't all die and almost let it out again lol we're pretty mad but mostly scared about that

After examining the board for a little bit, she continues to make her way into the shaft when she comes across some skeletons, one of which is holding a lantern. She takes the lantern, then runs in the opposite direction.

I followed her with my Solver claws outstretched to wrestle with any threats that came by.

Meanwhile back with N

V?: I missed you, N.

N tired to free himself: T-Thank you, mine shaft trauma ghost! I can hear you fine from there!

V?: You know, you're one of the main reasons…
Her voice glitches: I̶ ̵w̵a̸n̵t̵e̵d̵ ̵y̵o̶u̷r̵ ̴t̵e̷a̵m̷ ̴t̶o̴ ̴r̶e̵t̸a̸i̴n̶ ̸y̴o̴u̸r̴ ̶p̸e̴r̶s̵o̶n̵a̸l̵i̶t̷i̴e̸s̵.̸

N stops, his mind seemed to snap a little.

V?: Y̸o̸u̵ ̷a̸l̵w̴a̴y̷s̴ ̷s̸u̶r̶p̸r̷i̵s̵e̸d̷ ̷m̷e̶.̸

She makes the lantern above go out as she drags N towards her. Her voice became much more AI-like and the movements more jerky.

Solver: Loved doing anything.

She embraces him with her drone arms as her centipede arms anchor her into the ground, incredibly still.

N then finds himself in a large city setting, a flashback. Drones are flying all around and eating flesh as the screams of civilians can be heard. Above, a helicopter attempts to shoot the Drones, doing nothing, and is then dragged and destroyed by a large tentacle.

Now N finds himself back in the shaft falling heavily.
ACCESS DENIED CONTACT ADMIN "DARKXWOLF17"

Solver: Thanks for clearing the way on this planet, too. Let's eat.

The Solver drags a screaming N further into the shaft. He tried to fight back to no success.

Uzi made her way to the abandoned cathedral and I walked behind her. Tessa had been nowhere in my range of vision, hearing, or smell. Where had she gone? We entered the doors of the massive building.
Once inside, we looked around and flew to the top of the partially ruined chandelier. She stares down at the massive hole in the ground when something catches her attention. A techno song is playing on a monitor.

D: Who would be playing music here?

We makes our way over, stop the song, and sit down. A video is paused. Uzi rewinds and hits play, not looking forward to what she might find.

N continues to be dragged screaming further into the shaft by the Solver. As they enter a hall made of flesh, a pickaxe is lunged at the Solver's arm, freeing N. The heart from earlier shows up and its purple eye was closed in annoyance.

Heart: Why is Cyn after her own murder-pet? You stupid or something?

N: Oh, yeah.

Heart: Cool by me, then…

The heart climbs on top of N's head: Drive!

N and his heart acquaintance flee the fleshy hall as it begins collapse around them.

Heart: Hey, you look familiar. Watch the road. You got wings?

N: Um, I guess-

Heart: Focus! Left!

The Heart handed N the crucifix: Think you can get this cross to the surface? I'm lookin' for a hunk named Khan.

N’s eyes widened in surprise. He flew a bit wobbly after hearing that.

N: Uzi's dad? What-

The heart shoves N to the side as the Solver misses them in its chase, the heart pauses and squints at N with some rage and curiosity.

Heart: How do you know my daughter?

Back with Thad, Lizzy, and Candy.

Thad: So, how do we-

Lizzie: Punch.

Thad: Can't her hands be guns?

Lizzie: Kick, also.

Thad chuckles sinisterly: Yeah.

Candy watched J float around and Dani move under her, charging up a laser beam.

Candy: What’s he doing here?

Lizzy: Who knows, let’s head in.

They advance towards the cave entrance when a loud BOOM goes off. They get flung back by the explosion. J flies out and back into Tessa's ship, which takes off. The trio look back towards the cave entrance, which is now in flames. Lizzy snaps a picture on her phone.

Dani was moved back into snow and he slammed his fist into the snow in rage as J flew away.

Khan arrived onto the scene: Part 2A, check the perimeter.

He hands Thad blueprints for Uzi's railgun, which is, quote, "sick af", "cool", and "doesn't suck".
Thad: M-Mr. Doorman, sir?

Khan investigates the area: Bad crowd, those Murder Drones. Destroying ways off the planet... My wife...My daughter having interests beyond cannibalism and... "nightcore"?

A rumbling occurs, levitating the four up momentarily. Khan was looking at the green coil of ammo while Candy, Thad, and Lizzy scrambled about in the air. They then were dropped back down.

Khan chuckles: It's the end times! If my wife's closet is right, the planet's gonna try to eat us soon.

Thad opens his mouth to speak, but Lizzy gestures for him not to. Candy smirked and continued to look at the group. Dani listened form far away and he picked himself up.

Tessa searches the lockers, then reaches a computer. After performing an "I Am Not A Robot" test, she is granted access to the database. She scrolls to the top, which shows Nori and Yeva as, respectively, "In Progress" and "Patch 2.1.8". She purges the program and walks off as the computer explodes. She turns back to view her handiwork as Doll and Shadow arrive.

Doll: Где патч, человек? (Where's the patch, human?)

Tessa: Hmm. Not sure what you me-

Doll attacks her quickly with a cleaver. Shadow held his Solver out, ready to use it.

Shadow: What have you done with the real Tessa?
Doll: USB Патч. Изгнать одержимость Сольвера. Где это? (The USB Patch. To exorcise the Solver's possession. Where is it?)

“Tessa” resists Doll's attacks and ignores Shadow’s question. The Tessa that met earlier had been separated still since the cave collapse: So, that's what they were doing down here, huh? Crucifix-lookin' thing?

Doll: ...Разве ты не знаешь? (...Wouldn't you know?)

“Tessa”: Had my suspicions. But they kept cutting my feed.

Tessa slices Doll's right eye and Doll flinches back, clutching her eye. Shadow steps forward and uses his blue Solver to push her backwards.
“Tessa” hits the wall with a thud but is unaffected: Patch to save yourself, huh?

Doll: Я не позволю ему использовать меня, чтобы поглотить планету! (I will not let it use me to consume the planet!)

Tessa: Hmm. Not sure it needs you, buddy.

She tosses her cleaver at Doll, knocking the knife out of her hand, and vanishes, Shadow quickly flings Solver ninja stars around before teleporting him and Doll out of the area and to a safer area. He heals her face up.

Absolute Solver: Thanks for the new host... intern.
Nori, under the Solver's control, summons the crucifix her way and out of Mitchell's hands on the screen.

Absolute Solver: MacGuffin.

It flings it back at Mitchell but it doesn't kill him as I expected, but merely shatters the glass on the front of his helmet. It turns out, Yeva halts the crucifix, reverses it, and flings back at Nori.

The Absolute Solver’s voice glitches: O-O-Ow. ₩Ⱨ₳₮ ł₦ ₮ⱧɆ ₴₵łɆ₦₵Ɇ...?

She yanks the crucifix out of her eye and flings it into the pit behind her as she falls to the floor. Mitchell signals a "Thank you" to Yeva and flees the scene as quickly as possible. Yeva turns to Nori and stares at her, deadpanned.

Yeva reaches out towards Nori, but notices that the Solver is trying to regain control. Yeva slices the Solver off Nori and it falls into the pit, fading into the inky black.

Yeva helps Nori to her feet. Suddenly, a bright flash emits from the pit behind them and a loud boom sounds off.

Nori's Heart: Then, the planet kinda half-imploded anyway. The humans all...

She makes a Slice and a Gag claw gesture: Woke up on the surface, brain scrambled enough to have a kid, and the rest is dumb, stupid history.

N claps at her dramatization of events, he was impressed and happy she survived it all, and it told with such good detail made it so much better for him, like a bonus.

Nori's Heart: Stop that. Now, the Solver's found its way back to finish the job. Who's its host?

N: Um... like, Uzi? And a red-eyed, uh-

Nori's Heart: Yeva's kid. I know, dummy. Which one was just trying to eat us?

N paused, she already knew everything but now he didn’t know what to even say. N doesn't respond.
Uzi and I both had just finished watching the tape on the monitor. She stands there, standing as still as a statue, her eyes replaced with the Solver symbol, as the screen displays static.

CRACK! The screen breaks as Uzi stumbles back and the lights go out. Both of us turned around.

D: Uzi, stay close.

Uzi: Wasn’t planning on just wandering about.

“Tessa” appears: Yikes.

Uzi turns to face her in the doorway.

“Tessa”: Someone's been busy.

Nori's Heart tosses the crucifix at his head: Just hurry, stupid.

N: O-Of course!

He runs off with a salute: Uzi's gonna freak out when I tell h-

Nori's Heart stops him with a claw held up.

Nori's Heart: Tell her I'm alive, you die.

N: Sorry, ma'am. I won't keep secrets from Uzi anymore... Even if you say it might hurt her.

Nori's Heart drops N with her own purple Solver: Nuance alert, ma'am. I caused every horror in her life. Destroyed the planet, got you things sicced here-

N: Gave her ungodly eldritch genetics!

N is rewarded with a crucifix to the face.

Nori's Heart: No time. Promise.

N’s voice was muffled. Nori's Heart moves the crucifix away from his face to hear him out.

N: I promise to wait until you're ready to tell her yourself?

Nori's Heart: Ugh. Bite me.

“Tessa” advances towards Uzi and me.

Uzi began to pant heavily: T-Tessa, I-I-I didn't- Sh-She just- Wait! Something else did this to Doll! You -- You have to believe...
Her wings began to come out and get stuck on the pillars which is winced at.

“Tessa”: No worries. Makes my job easier.

“Tessa” drags her blade across the floor, it sparks: Thought there'd be more of you Solver freaks anyway. Anyways, D, clean up time.

D: What? Gah!

My green Solver twisted around my visor into an X shape.

“Tessa” aims the tip of the blade at Uzi's chest and prepares to pound it in but N had come to the rescue. My mind switched back to normal momentarily.

N threateningly spoke to her: You knew about the patch. Yes, or no? One. Chance.

“Tessa” moved his blade away: Cute. You know why I keep you around, N-

N slices Tessa's neck. She collapses on the ground as her helmet rolls away. N stands panting at what he has done as Uzi pulls the blade out of her chest and grabs the crucifix N holds.

I sniff the air and watch “Tessa’s” head roll away: That wasn’t Tessa.

N sighs in relief and turn toward Uzi comfortingly: Hey, buddy. Yeah, that should help.

He helps Uzi up: All I know is, I need you... to figure things out...

He grabs Uzi's hand and looks into her eyes: Together.

He helps Uzi to her feet and me and N both look at her in surprise.

D: Shit.

Uzi? Laughs maniacally and desentigrates the crucifix into dust.

Solver giggles: That's really sweet, big brother. Too bad you've served your purpose. Don't worry. Your backups will forgive me.

She tosses N and pins him against a column. I leaped toward N but I was unfortunately put against the other column and I was held there by her yellowish purple Solver.

Before she could kill N, Nori's heart shows up and slices her blades off. The Solver had a look of shock plastered across her face.

Solver: Nori? You're dead.

Nori’s heart: You're frickin' grounded!

Nori slaps the Solver controlled Uzi in the face.
Solver turns back: Angry.

A huge battle commences and I’ll I could do was watch. The Solver launches claws as Nori and N fly up to escape. The pickaxe is thrown and lands in the Solver's face. N prepares to shoot, but hesitates, not wanting to harm his best friend.

The Solver lunges forward and tosses N against a wall. He gets pinned as the Solver makes his blade try to slice Uzi's neck. Suddenly, Nori slices the blades off and slaps the Solver across the face, twice over

The heart flings the Solver backwards, turns, and slaps N across the face, also twice. The Solver regenerates her arms and hands and fires back at the heart and N.

They evade the attacks and make their way over, slicing another one of her arms off. They fire at each other until Nori swings the pickaxe in the Solver's direction. In the heat of the moment, N flies in front of the Solver/Uzi to stop the pickaxe from harming her.

The pickaxe makes contact with N and he is thrown to the floor. The Solver picks up the heart and knocks it into a window. The Solver throws the pickaxe down, narrowly avoiding hitting N, and prepares to eat the heart, tongue out and lolling, teeth bared.

N: NORI! I should mention, Uzi and I, uh...
The Solver stops to stare down at N. He wrote something in his own oil/blood: HANG OUT? WE JUST KINDA ARE HANGING OUT A LOT IDK

Solver: What?

Nori's Heart: Uzi Doorman. Those things killed your frickin' mother!

Nori slaps her so hard, they both get sent flying to the ground at top speed, a sonic boom was created.

The Solver’s voice glitches: Ø₩! ł'₥ ₦Ø₮-

Uzi’s voice is back to normal and I fell from the pillar and dropped onto the ground.

Uzi: Hey, lady! You don't frickin' own me!

N screams in horror as Uzi tosses the heart back down the pit. I looked down the hole and backed away from it.

N: UZI!!!

Uzi: WHAT?! We did NOT discuss being gross and-

She shrieks in frustration, gripping her head.

N: THAT WAS YOUR MOM!

Uzi: What?!

N: Wait, no!

They both shriek in terror and run into each other's arms. Tears stream down Uzi's face as N rubs the back of her head in comfort.

This can all be seen in the reflection on Tessa's helmet as it rolls into the pit. Until a foot stops it in place, picks it back up, and puts it back on their head.

They make their way over to the duo, removing their armor, and setting the helmet on top of it. It looks towards me as N and Uzi break from their embrace. I looked at her and I began to feel a presence in my mind. My eyes turned to green X’s and I took my place next to the figure.

Solver laughs: Oh, yes. Get snuck-up on.

Her voice glitches as she makes her way over to them: ₦Ɇ₵₭ ฿ł₮Ɇ.

The Solver pins N and grabs Uzi with a swift effort as I watch.

N: D, help!

I twitched and glitched: I…can’t.

Solver: Stab.

Uzi and N are lifted into the air by the figure.
Solver: It's been fun. And, also, that's sarcasm. Honestly, I'm starving.

She drops them and falls down the pit. Suddenly, a bright light flashes as tentacles emerge from below, setting off alarms. The light shot up into the sky, clearing away some clouds.

I began to notice the figure’s form. It was a combined amalgamation of a drone’s body and a dead human girl, not Tessa. The eyes were two yellow X’s and a black dress draped on their skin, a yellow core slightly visible. I found her cute in an unexplained way. Something tripped in my brain, this was someone I’ve met, this was Cyn, the Planet Eater.

Meanwhile Tessa's ship lands and J exits

J: Ride's good to go, boss. Just say...

A rapidly approaching school bus knocks her back, sending the keys to the ship falling below. J picks herself up.

J points her weapon at them: Who are you idiots?

A cloud of smoke shows the silhouettes of Lizzy, Thad, and Candy which J's eye labels "Prior Hazard". Candy laughed and giggled to herself. The ground quaked and Dani clung into the side of the skyscraper. He grimaced and hid himself inside the building.

Back with N and Uzi

Two tentacles emerge form the pit and proceed to drag Uzi and N down. Uzi grabs onto a ledge, then grabs N's hand. N regains conscience.

Uzi grunts: Hey. Thanks for, like...

She sees the keys fall from above and into the pit, fear welled up inside: Everything.

N: Uzi, don't you dare!

Uzi tosses N back above and frees him using her Absolute Solver. Her screen flashes a phrase. DIE MAD

Using her Absolute Solver, she tosses N out of the cathedral as she lets the tentacles drag her into the dark pit below. She descends for a little while trying to find a good position to fall with, she closed her eyes and braced for what was next.

She awoke and found herself floating in a void. Before her lies a large, orange light. The inner core of Copper 9, glowing orange with scattered remains of the planet all around.

With Jive’s crew

Over the area they were crossing laid multiple sentinel bodies. Lend carefully stepped over them.
Lend: Someone’s been busy.

Jive: Not our problem right now.

The planet quaked and rumbled. Skorpion clenched her gun in her hand: Is that the Planet Eater?

Jive: Yes. She’s fully up and ready.

Lend: But so are we.

Jive: Lend, you know this is going to be the hardest fight of our lives right?

Lend: Yeah, I know.

They pause in silence before she continues.

Lend: But we’ll do it together.

Jive: Well, guess we’re going up to the surface.
The ground broke apart and suddenly rose high up into the air and each of them held on tightly as they were moving at many many miles per hour.

Parsec’s ship

On the deck’s view was Copper 9. Parsec and his multiple troops watched it. He took in a deep breath and exhaled.

Parsec: So she finally started, took her long enough.
Soldier 1: Commander, orders?

Parsec: For now, observe. Over time we shall fire right into the planet's core cutting off the drones, her, and the entire planet. Eliminating all of our problems. And if that doesn’t happen to work we’ll send in our special project from Earth.

Soldier 1: Roger sir.

Tests were performed and calibrations made as Parsec continued to stare down at the planet's core, his gaze saw the swirling in the middle of the planet and he sat in his chair to watch the spectacle.

Notes:

I hope you all enjoyed this part. I know that many OC’s didn’t get to shine but I didn’t know where to place them necessarily without interfering with the main group.

Tessa is alive, just not currently in the same area as everyone else. Cyn took the skin of another girl instead of Tessa.

D is now half antagonist half protagonist. Shadow took a backseat here you can see but I doubt you find it all that off.

Tell me your reactions to these changes like sparing Doll and such. Anyways, have fun my readers. I’ll see you in the next one.

That’s all folks!

Chapter 12: MURDER DRONES (X): ABSOULTE END

Summary:

Cyn and J vs every one else. Who will win this battle that determines Copper 9’a fate?

Notes:

Thank you all for reading this. I’ve had so much fun leading up to this very point. I hope you enjoy.

ABSOLUTE END

It opens with a field of stars and zooms in to a distant view of Copper 9 and its moons, before switching to a view of the surface and the corpse spire.

Inside a car, two skeletons can be seen. A bright flash of light appears in the background, followed by a shockwave that breaks the windshield. This turns on the car's radio, and melancholy music starts playing. The radio displays the word NULL.

There are views of a skeleton and drone hand with a traffic light blinking in the background.

Inside Doll's home, the bugs are starting to float up, their little legs wiggling around for a purchase on the land below them.

Nori's drawings are seen floating up in her closet which had been shut closed with a lock.

The camera cuts to a view of the Worker Drone corpses killed by Uzi during their class trip floating, before a shockwave cracks the ice on the lake but it would never unfreeze still.

Teacher is grading an essay by Uzi. The essay, titled "Dumb Stupid Essay" consists entirely of the phrase "I AM GOD" repeated over and over. Papers, desks, chairs, etc. are all floating around. Suddenly, everything falls back to the floor, and air rushes by the windows, before the outside fades away to stars. Teacher walks to the door, and the view pans down to reveal a massive gaping hole on Copper 9 going all the way down to the core.

His eyes zoom into the core to the Absolute Sover's core. Giant yellow glowing tentacles reach out from the core, grabbing onto the various pieces of floating crust. One of the tentacles slaps Teachers face. Teacher makes a "why" gesture, unfazed by her attack. The tentacle starts pulling the classroom into the core.

The Cathedral

N stood there, alone. His expression was blank. Was Uzi gone? She couldn’t be, he just knew it. He had to find her and there was only one way to do that. He needed a spaceship and became a pilot yet again, he wouldn’t crash this time.

He flew out of the Cathedral and looked around the area. All around him were giant tentacles, Cyn’s husks, and floating islands. He shook the fear and shock away and saw a ship. In it was J and he quickly flew over to it.

He landed on the hole and slipped through the hatch. He landed down and retracted his wings and saw J clicking buttons.

N: J?

J: Huh, N? What are you doing here?

N: I need this ship. Uzi’s out there.

J: Sorry, I have orders. Cyn’s orders.

N gripped his claws around her throat and held her up to the wall: You're working with her still?

J: Agh! N! Wait, I can explain!

N eased his claws grip. He had a cold stare locked onto her.

J: Cyn has Tessa. If I don’t follow orders, she’ll kill her.

N dropped J: Uzi will be able to stop Cyn. I just need this ship to get to her, please.

J: N, buddy, I can’t let Tessa die, even if your emo friend can stop Cyn. It’s too late for us.

N: Fine, then I’ll just throw you out.

J: Wait what?

N grabbed her and threw her out of the hatch before he blasted off into space. J grunted and then looked at a note on her hand and she groaned.

With Uzi

Uzi was watching her planet from far away. Uzi starts flipping and spinning out of control, before a large boulder being moved by someone's Absolute Solver hits her, and she grabs onto it.

In the distance, Nori is jumping around the rocks, headed towards Uzi. Uzi says something, but being in the vacuum of space, nothing comes out. The two look at one another.

Nori grabs a rock, spins it, and scratches "WHOOPS" on it, while pointing at the core of Copper 9 and shrugs.

Uzi displays "HOW STOP?" on her visor.

Nori scratches an image of the crucifix patch and "PATCH?" on the rock.

Uzi makes a gesture indicating that it got destroyed, before displaying on her visor "SOLVER CONTROL ME AGAIN?".

Nori throws her choker at Uzi. From Uzi's view, Nori has scratched "IF YOU A LIL B" with the rest of the message censored and a parental advisory pointing to the message.

Uzi puts the choker on, before waving at Nori. Nori scratches a smile and waves in response. She then scratches an Absolute Solver glyph and "NEEDS HOST - DESTROY CYN'S HEART <3" (the heart symbol has a line going through it).

Nori puts on her headphones and MP3 player, and throws her pickaxe to Uzi. A landing pod suddenly hits Uzi, sending Nori and the pickaxe flying back to Copper 9 burning up.

Uzi started slipping from the top of the landing pod, before catching on the ladder. The door opens, and a Disassembly Drone tail grabs onto Uzi's hand, pulling her into the landing pod.

N giggled and waved his arms around: Spaceship piloooot!

Uzi throws a wrench at N, spinning him around his chair. Alarms go off, and the screens all temporary shows an error.

Uzi: What? No! N! My mom was back there!

N shrieks as he regains control of the landing pod: Sorry! I didn't kno-

Uzi hugs N and the alarms stop: Oh.

Uzi muffled: You were supposed to get away.

N: Yeah, I'm kind of, like actually mad at what you did. But we can-

The alarms go off again, flashing red: TALK LATER!
The landing pod starts dodging rocks, before blasting off from a bigger rock. N and Uzi are both sweating. They fix their hair. They look at each other for a moment.

Uzi sniffs before chuckling evilly: Then DIE MAD, BI-
Everything suddenly goes dark, and batteries start floating. A glowing tentacle reaches into the landing pod, grabbing onto the ship. A message interface shows up, with a message from Cyn saying "STOP :)".

Uzi and N both say something, but now being in the vacuum of space, nothing audible can be heard. Cyn pulls the ship in half, and the ship's explosion sends Uzi and N falling towards Copper 9's atmosphere. Uzi and N starts burning up. Uzi and N grab each other's hands, their voices become audible.

Uzi: Well, that's a serious issue. Um, before that...

Uzi nods her head at the core: ...whole...thing. We're like dating...right?

N: Oh. Y-Yeah. Like, that was the plan, yeah-

Uzi: Just 'cause, I can't alway...I can't always read-

N: Like, y-yeah?

Uzi blushes: Yay...

She nervously giggles about their little talk. Uzi and N embrace in a ball of spectacular fire, until Uzi pushes N away.

Uzi in disgust: Gross! Get away!

N was momentarily shocked but shrugged it off. Uzi laughed evilly: Time to murder a planet!

Uzi starts to cartwheel while falling and cackling loudly.

Uzi and N fall towards the core. Meanwhile, Cyn's tentacles are pulling the lower half of the landing pod towards a tumbling floating island, on this island was J.

She sitting on a metal tank holding a paper. On it are the words "IOU 1 SPACESHIP" and a crying face. The tentacle sets down the landing pod rather hard in a large explosion. J gave a fake smile.

J sarcastically saluting: Yes. Thank you, boss! Good as ne-

Cyn pats the landing pod with the tentacle and it breaks into pieces; Yep. There is cool. Thanks.

The upper half of the landing pod crashes nearby, also exploding.

J glances at Lizzy, Candy, Thad, Khan, and the school bus on the ice. Khan nods at the school bus, which rotates one of its wheels in return. Thad tries to grab his wrench, but it falls off the side. He then tries to grab the railgun, but it is out of his reach. They were also stuck with gravity so no way where they going anywhere.

J sighs: All right, "sentient mass". Time to go in the scary planet...hole...thing.

She tries to fly to them, but gets pulled down by gravity. J grunts: Ow.

Part of her leg is stuck in the ice: Gravity. Okayyyy.
J pulls her leg out, and starts walking towards the group with all the strength she can muster: I'm FINE, and calm, and…

J switches to a missile launcher and her left eye becomes a crosshair: …Go away.

J fires a missile. Thad and Khan look in fear, while Lizzy rolls her eyes. Candy tried to grab something to shield herself with but nothing, it looked like the end for them.

A red-eye sentinel appears, and hits the missile with its tail. On it is V. A hat on top and reigns around the snout keep the sentinel securely in place.

V: Hup! Hyah!

V jumps up and kicks the missile behind J, where it explodes. Lizzy and Thad look on, but Thad gets knocked down by the sentinel. Candy watched relieved to not be destroyed.

The sentinel runs towards J, with V riding on top. J fires two bullets at V, but the sentinel deflects both with a Disassembly Drone sword. The sentinel switches to a laser, but J dodges it. J looks back, but realizes that V is no longer riding the sentinel. Her face flashes with confusion.

V rose up from behind: Can't betray us that easily, narc!

J: It's senior informant.

V kicks J in the head: AGH!

J is sent flying into a nearby floating island. She groans and picks herself back up.

V was angry, her world had been collapsing. And now she was probably the only one left alive that she knew off that could try and stop Cyn. If she wanted to survive she would have to fight to get out alive.

V: Working with CYN?!

V tries to kick J again, but J flies away just in time. They start clashing their bladed weapons while flying in the air.

Lizzy is texting on her phone. It's revealed that she has been texting to V who had sent a message showing that she survived the sentinels, and she is holding the red-eyed sentinel in a choke hold while posing. She had yoink the sentinel.

V asks Lizzy if she found J, and Lizzy replies that she has and is asking if J needs to be killed. V replies that Lizzy only needs to distract. Lizzy is typing to tell V that her ship got carbombed. Lizzy then realizes that there is a red glow coming from behind her. Lizzy looks up at the sentinel, before looking at Thad and Khan, who are both worried.

The sentinel suddenly grabs Lizzy with its jaws, and starts slamming Lizzy into the ground repeatedly. Thad and Khan scream out and Candy tries to stop the sentinel but gets smacked back from its tail. Thad picks up the railgun, and prepares to hit the sentinel with it.

Behind them, V kicks J into the ground, causing a large explosion, sending everyone else flying. Lizzy makes a "chill out" gesture to the sentinel. In response, the sentinel coughs up a bottle of flammable gas, pokes a hole in it, and starts to approach Lizzy. Lizzy, Candy, Thad, and Khan all panic and start trying to get away but being in space, that was very hard.

V: Ugh! We were supposed to get away, J!

She pushes J up the tower: You said we do our jobs on this planet...

J: Oh, grow up, V!

V: And it leaves us alo-

She knocks V back with her sword.

J: It tricked you. If I promised you anything...it tricked me, too.

She fires a missile at V: You know there's no escape, even in death!

She sliced V's left leg off with a cold stare before it turned softer: I promise, it's better on the winning team, as a team. V grabs her hand
V: Oh, how about you bite me?!

V rips J's hand off with a loud yell. A shine came from up above, a purple and yellow one.

Jive, Lend, and Skorpion were moved up onto the surface as were Doll and Shadow.

Skorpion: Holy Hell! That’s what she can do?

Lend: Yeah, she’s done it before. This place was supposed to be a haven.

Jive: And we’ll still make it one.

Skorpion: How are we going to beat that?

Jive: We’re gonna have to use teamwork, everyone needs to help.

Lend pulls her scythe out: Let’s get to it.

Shadow helps Doll up who rolls her eyes and moves him away: I’m fine.

Shadow: Any ideas?

Cyn’s tentacles slammed and crashed into the ground like they were kraken tentacles in a raging battle against sailors. Doll watched it with fear.

Doll: No.

Shadow: Me neither, but we can’t try and use your Solver’s right?

Doll: I suppose. Since the others are gone…we must keep fighting. And if we're gonna die anyway, we’ll make sure we leave a lasting impact.

Shadow: Alright, let’s give her hell.

Doll, Shadow, and Jive activated their Solver’s, Lend readied her scythe, and Skorpion raised her guns. A tentacle moved toward them all and they ducked.

It went to coil around Lend but Jive sent his flying disks into the glowing tendril. It moved back only for it to swing down harder. Lend’s scythe glowed bright and sliced some of it off.

Doll flung her signature cleaver through the second tentacle while Shadow reigned the tendril down with his Solver chain. Bullets went through the third one thanks to Skorpion.

The tentacles began to separate the land they were on, dividing them. The tendrils tried to crush them but help was at hand from above.

Uzi and N falling together, hands grasped. Uzi sent a Solver beam into the tentacles and everyone looked up at them in shock.

Uzi: Hey, Cyn! Suck! On! THIIIIS!!!

Uzi and N start spinning around, and Uzi throws a black hole at the core, causing an explosion to occur, the planet had a shockwave. They land on a catwalk and strike a pose.

As the tentacles stopped moving until Cyn rises up on her tentacles with me flying behind her. She smiled and walked off her tentacles, walking gracefully in the high heels she was wearing. She twirled the black hole across her arms.

Cyn: Dropped this, silly.

She crushed the black hole, freeing her tendrils. She looked over at Uzi with some disdain: Hello, Uzi.

Her voice turns higher pitched seeing her big brother: Hi, N.

She spoke normally again: I see. You will not talk to me because I have hurt...your feelings.

Her voice became distorted as she brought her tentacles out, the claw ends evident. I flew right beside her.

Cyn: Easier to assimilate than explain, anyway. Callback ping.

Cyn tries to control Uzi but it doesn't work. Her eyes flashed to her X shapes and so did mine. Uzi clutched her head in pain, this wasn’t going to be a problem for Cyn.

Uzi: Bite me.

Uzi looks at N and then back at Cyn. Cyn took this as a challenge.

Cyn: Okee.

Cyn hits N aside with her tentacle as launches at Uzi, grabbing her heart and pulling it out as N then jumps in to stop her. I could only watch this event unfold. While I felt sorry for my friends, I was forced to help Cyn out, or was I even forced? I’m not fighting the control like how Uzi has been doing.

N: Agh!

Cyn pins N to the ground and begins tapping his chest repeatedly, a creepy but adorable smile on her face as she begins to break into him. Uzi was struggling to move her core back inside herself.

Cyn: Okay. You first, eager beaver. Heeheehee. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in.

V and J were still doing their battle.

V: Offer rescinded!

J: And here I thought you stepped it up after Earth. I never needed either of you!

Uzi was pulling N through a hallway as Cyn chased them like a hungry velociraptor, stopping in the middle and scaning the area. She then breaks the lights and multiple hands come out from her and crawl across the walls.

Cyn licks her eyeball: Lick. Callback ping.

She repeats the phrase multiple times.

N has flashbacks of Cyn cutting him open and V's dead body and Uzi then holds his hand and smiles which clams N down a little but it was about to get worse.

V drops through the ceiling, causing the hands to come back. She starts walking towards Cyn who’s disguised as N.

V: N? N? You're okay? I wasn't - Tessa is Cyn! She's here. N, I don't know how much you remember, but J tricked us. Or, it tricked J, too! N? I'm so sorry. I-I should have been honest with you. I was just so scared for us - for you!

As she was getting closer, N was sweating bullets. He couldn’t stand by any longer.

N: V, stop!

Cyn grabs N's heart through the pipes, pulling his body through and looks at V.

Cyn: Do your job, and I leave you and N alone. Right, V?

V stammering: I-I can still...

Cyn: Bad job, V.

She winked and made a peace sign before snipping her fingers together like scissors. Cyn then chases V out of the building and starts holding N's heart to her mouth laughing maniacally. N’s core scrambled but thankfully for him, Khan shuts the door behind her, causing her to lose grip. N flies back into his body, afraid.

Cyn: Squirmy worm. Go- fu- d- mit-

Khan, Candy, Thad, and Lizzy were falling.

Khan was chuckling: Hah! There’s more where that came from!

Thad threw Uzi’s railgun toward her: Go long, Uzi!
Thad throws the railgun and the camera goes back to Cyn as she jumps down next to J. I land beside her.

Cyn: Eye roll. Uzi's not here.

Large, glowing tentacles shoot up out of the ground and start pulling structures into the ground as Cyn walks towards V and prepares to lunge at her but Uzi appears and cuts her claw off. Cyn rears back somewhat and then looks at me. I step forward with outstretched arms.

Shadow, Doll, Jive, Lend, and Skorpion arrived next to them. Shadow looked at me.

Shadow: D, resist.

D: I can’t.

Shadow: Then I’ll do it for you!

Shadow flung a null Solver ball into me and I became stiff for a moment before I broke from the control. I shook my head.

D: Cyn, I’m really sorry to fight you.

Cyn: No worries, Daniel, I can just get you back.

How did she know my real name? I was left stuck there before I flew backwards with the others.

Uzi: Alright hands off! No one traumatizes these weirdly hot robots but me!

She looks at V: Glad you're not dead, or whatever.

Cyn rolled her eyes: Boring. And annoying. Callback ping.

Cyn tries to control Uzi, but it backfires, with one of Cyn's eyes becoming purple for a second.

Uzi: Sorry. Just me in here. I think dumb things are frickin' cool, and I... AM... FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Uzi raises her hand into the air as Nori's pickaxe launches down to her as she catches it as it glows for a second. Nori's heart is falling as she motivates Uzi.

Nori: Kick her butt, babe! Whoo!

The camera cuts to Cyn smiling. She liked competition.

Cyn: 'Kay.

Nori's music player falls out of the sky and into the snow as it starts playing music, a song called Bite Me.

Bite me, bite me, bite me, bite me
Bite me, bite me, bite me, bite me
Bite me, bite me, bite me, bite me

Uzi and Cyn sprint at each other and use their Solvers as Uzi redirects Cyn's attack back at her, causing big holes to open on the surface of the planet.

As she waits at dawn
Looking for a way to escape her lonely heart
Let them swallow you!

J and Cyn were standing next to each other as Uzi shoots J with her railgun, cutting J's hair off, before throwing her railgun at J. Uzi run up to Cyn with the pickaxe and tries to hit her, but Cyn uses Tessa's sword to stop it and teleports around Uzi.
Skorpion fired her rounds and Jive sent his disks toward her. Lend fought with J and Doll began to send Solver ninja stars at her. J was hit twice and then ducked under Lend’s scythe before kicking her in the face.

Shadow went to assist Doll and wrapped J in a Solver chain. I swooped down toward Cyn who instead held me back with her claw and threw me into the ground. Cyn suddenly tapped the ground a bit and it nullified our Solver attack briefly which allowed her to hit us all in a whip-like strike from her tentacles.

I won't fall down, you need me
We don't follow crowds, we mold them new

We got back up and attacked again. Uzi slides the pickaxe down the sword, cutting Cyn's claw off and uses her wing to attack Cyn. Uzi kicks Cyn in the face, launching her backwards. Cyn launches the sword towards Uzi, but ends up cutting J's head off accidentally. Uzi hits J's head at Cyn with the railgun, but she dodges. Cyn catches the sword and teleports around Uzi to attack. Uzi goes to impale the pickaxe into Cyn but Cyn disguises herself as N, causing Uzi to stop a bit.

Jive saw the trick through easily and flung a Solver ball into Cyn’s face and he moved backwards.

I'm not done, believe me
We won't settle down, we'll make them move
Make them mine
I won't let them, I repent them, I won't let them (swallow you)

J goes in to attack Uzi, but V and N get in front of her and stop her.

V: Wrong team.

N: No more tricks.

V launches J into a pit while N cuts Cyn's arm off. Cyn drops the disguise.

N: I dunno, I feel like we need a secret handshake or something, right?

I won't let them (I won't let them, I won't let them, I won't let them, I won't let them)
Swallow you
As it stands, you are no longer my friend
Eat my heart, take my soul, let it burn you
(I won't let go)

Cyn throws the pickaxe at them, but Uzi grabs it and starts running at her. V launches rockets at Cyn, who uses her tentacles to block them. Another rocket grazes right by Cyn, and N kicks it back. Cyn stops the rocket before N cuts her head off using a chainsaw. Cyn grabs her head, putting it back, and launches the rocket at V, who is shooting at Cyn.

What's on my mind? Well, I'm the farthest gone, you'll find
You should take a look inside
You should tear apart my mind

N goes in to attack Cyn again, but she shows a picture of a Golden Retriever on her eyes, distracting him and impaling a tentacle into N's chest. N winks towards Uzi, who goes in and cuts Cyn's head off while she and N salute to each other. Uzi is pinned to the ground by Cyn's claws, and N realizes the beheaded Cyn was a hologram. Cyn prepares to cut Uzi's head off, but V kicks Cyn in the head and Uzi rolls her eyes. N grabs Cyn by her tentacles, throws her up as V grabs her again and launches her at the ground.

I won't fall down, you need me
We don't follow crowds, we mold them new
I'm not done, believe me
We won't settle down, we'll make them move (we'll make them move)
Make them mine (make them mine)
Make them mine
You should let me go (I'm not worth saving)
We won't let them know (we won't let them know)
Let them carry on (let them swallow you)
You won't save me too
(We won't let them swallow you)

Uzi and N were doing secret handshakes while Cyn and V are fighting as they look back. Cyn pins V to a wall, but Uzi jumps in, uppercuts Cyn in the chin, and kicks her to N as he cuts Cyn. N and Uzi do handshakes but Cyn swipes N and V out of the way and goes in to attack Uzi who is losing balance. Uzi notices Cyn glitching and turns around, stopping her and grabbing Cyn's heart as she pulls it out.
Everyone was at a pause. No one dared move as this was the end all be all. A purple light glowed from above.

D: Wait, Uzi, don’t kill her!

Uzi paused: What? Why?

D: Listen closely, Cyn doesn’t need to be killed, she just needs the Solver restricted. And also, that purple glow above us, she can help us stop it.

Jive: He’s right, that laser must be coming from Parsec’s ship.

D: Please, Uzi, we let her live, we destroy that ship, and we live the happy ending. Okay?

Everyone gathered around with almost everyone looking at me as if I was insane which I probably was.

Uzi: Fine. Alright, creepy. Can you help us out?

Cyn: Giggle. Of course, the fight was very fun afterall.

The purple laser was then shot down toward us and Cyn used her tendrils to block it. A huge message displayed. NICE TRY.

Cyn sent her tendrils right into the ship and began to crush it to pieces. It began to explode but something shot out from it. Something big.

A giant machine slammed down as a ball shape and knocked everyone, even Cyn, back. We picked ourselves up and saw Parsec in the air, floating with his staff. Behind him was a giant mechanical robot that towered over us all. It was very heavily built and strong. Spiked covered its gray armor and its round shaped head had glowing yellow eyes.

Parsec: I’ll have you get acquainted.

He moved away as the robot attempted to crush us with its fist. We backed away as it shot a concentrated laser towards us. Skorpion shot a few rounds into it but to no effect.

N slammed his body into it but that only dented the robot and hurt N. V and J shot their missiles down onto it and their lasers but no effect. Jive ran after Parsec and Lend followed shortly after, noticing he was gone.

Shadow and Doll used a combined Solver strike into the robot which only disoriented it for a few seconds before it fired a barrage of missiles towards us all.
D: How do you stop that thing?

Skorpion: Concentrate all of our fire power on the ground below it. We could have it fall into a massive hole.

Cyn: Cancel order. The robot can fly.

Shadow: Of course it can!

Cyn sent a black hole into it which tore some armor off. The robot shot their laser right into Cyn’s chest and damaged her core. I sent a beam into the robot and flew toward Cyn to help her. She was picking herself back up sluggishly before she fired another black hole ball into the robot.

The robot slapped Doll back and Shadow tried to distract it but to no effect. It raised its food to crush Doll when Uzi used her Solver attack on it. The robot quickly turned and punched Uzi back into a rock. Uzi groaned and then picked her railgun up and shot it right through the robot's head.

It worked as they all fell down. N flew toward Uzi and hugged her.

N: You did it!

V smiled somewhat: We did it, moron.

Skorpion: Shit! Run!

Skorpion ran away from the robot and that was because it was about to blow up. A nuclear explosion. Everyone ran as far as possible and then it detonated and sent everyone flying around. The air became red and full of a strange liquid.

N was in the distance calling out: Uzi! Uzi!

Jive chased after Parsec and finally caught up to him: It’s me and you now.

Parsec turned: Very well then. This’ll be our final bout hmm?

Jive: That’s the plan.

The two went at it. Jive threw his disks into Parsec who retaliated with a concentrated beam attack from his staff. It hit Jive slightly but due to the bartender's skills, he was able to dodge it more than if he wasn’t skilled.

He slid on the ground and pulled out a Solver chain and wrapped it around the staff. Parsec used that against him and pulled him around and into a wall.

Jive got up and summoned duel karambits

Jive: Up for a drink? Because my shifts just started.

Jive ran up and slashed down at Parsec, who in response used his staff to block the attack before retaliating by kicking Jive backwards.

Jive flipped mid-air, landing on one knee. With a quick snap, he sent a sharp disk behind Parsec, angling it towards his head. Parsec turned just in the nick of time to block it with his staff, the force of the block causing him to stumble slightly.

Parsec: Always persistent, aren’t you?

Jive wasn’t done, he threw his karambits and sent them like at Parsec, one going for a wide loop around him while the other went directly at his head. Parsec quickly knocked the karambit going for his back by whacking it away, and ducked the one going for his head before sending another yellow beam of energy at Jive. Jive jumped back a bit too late, the mini shockwave of the impact sent him falling to the ground.

Before Jive could recover a second time, Parsec stepped on his chest and then stabbed the end of his staff into his body. Jive hissed out in pain as oil leaked from him.

Parsec: Last words?

Jive: …Heh…This… This isn’t how I imagined my shift would end…

Jive began to fade out from life and Parsec smiled. He left his staff there and began to try around. Lend was getting close and saw what happened. She seethed with anger.

Lend: Джайв! (Jive!)

Lend dash towards Parsec, swinging her scythe in a wide arc, but Parsec raised his hand, a sphere of pure energy forming before it was sent at Lend, sending her back and skidding across the ground

Parsec: You disassembly drones have always been predictable

Lend recovered from the short daze, regaining sight on her prey

Parsec: You aren’t going to walk away from this

Lend venomous: Shut… up… and fight me

Lend’s eyes turned to an X as she smiled like a maniac. She held her scythe on only 1 of her hands before raising it high into the air.

Lend: Не рассчитывай на пощаду. Я не в настроении (Don't count on mercy. I'm not in the mood)

Lend dashed at Parsec, who was expecting a direct approach, but mid dash Lend planted her scythe deep into the ground, vaulting over to Parsec and spinning in the air and bringing her blade down onto Parsec. Parsec jumped to the side as the scythe cracked the ground where he used to be, he was about to shoot the insane disassembler with his staff, but Lend sent swing after swing that Parsec was forced to block.

Lend used her short time in control to swap her free hand to a sickle, swiping at Parsec’s staff, and sending it into the air. Parsec quickly responded by shoving an energy ball in Lend’s face, blasting her visor and sending her back. Both jumped/flew back before staring at each other, good thing that Lend’s visor weren’t her real eyes.

Parsec quickly launched a volley of energy blasts at Lend, who sliced through each one with her scythe to turn them into harmless lights. What she didn’t know was that this is what Parsec wanted, as Lend sliced through the attacks, Parsec surged forward and jumped up before slamming his staff downwards at Lend. Lend was forced to block, but Parsec used the energy in the staff to run through the scythe, causing Lend’s hand to start feeling weak. It did not take long for Lend to be on one knee.

Parsec: You surprised me, but that will only happen once

Lend gritted her fangs, before twisting her wings and flying backwards, causing Parsec to stumble forward. That was a good thing as a sniper bullet whizzed past where his head used to be. Lend aimed her snayperskaya vintovka Dragunova (Dragunov sniper rifle) at him, firing the semi-automatic sniper rapidly at Parsec who spun his staff quickly, deflecting the bullets away from him. Parsec noticed that Lend was slowly moving backwards and higher up the sky.

Parsec, mumbling: So that's your plan

Lend stopped shooting and wiped the damage off her visor allowing it to start regenerating before holding her scythe with both hands and spinning like a missile at Parsec, who aimed his staff at the barreling disassembly drone. With no hesitation, Parsec sent a large beam at Lend, who noticed at the last second and dashed backwards, but her right wing was caught in the blast, sending her spinning uncontrollably to the ground.

Parsec was about to continue, but then he heard clapping, causing him to whip his head to the source of the sound

 

Clap!

 

Clap!

 

Clap!

 

A figure then came out of the shadows and clapped his hands slowly: Well done, you “killed me” there. Hope you’re ready Parsec, because this shift’s on overtime!

Parsec recognized the figure quickly

Parsec: Enough games, what other tricks do you have?

Jive: THIS! SERVING UP!

Jive quickly flipped a molotov in his hand—lighting it with the snap of a finger—and threw it at Parsec who reeled back from the hit. He swiped his face and grabbed his staff and charged it up for another beam strike but Lend dashed through it, her scythe and sliced Parsec’s arm off, the X glowing brighter than usual.

Lend, filled with venom: ……Не…….снова…… (……Not……again……)

Parsec screamed in pain: Wretched drones!

Jive: MO-WTC!

Lend, with a grin: With pleasure

Lend used her wings to puncture Parsec’s side and flung him towards Jive who swung his karambits up which made a cut on Parsec’s cheek before kicking him up.

Parsec landed head first to the ground and growled as he quickly teleported away much to their annoyance. Lend’s eyes returned as she glared at where Parsec used to be.

Lend, Flatly: The coward.

Jive: Damn, even surprised him, but the good news is that we survived and are still in business… I’m going to need to make some new molotovs now...

Before Jive could finish his train of thought, Lend stomped towards him before punching Jive in the robo balls, causing him to cough and he toppled over.

Jive, out of breath and doubled over: Really?! Now?!

Lend: You deserve it after running off.

Lend picked up Jive and hugged him tightly, like very tightly

Jive, trying to wave dismissively while being crushed: Okay, okay, fine. I got the order! Please let go.

Lend hugged him closer

Lend: Don’t you dare do a stupid stunt like that ever again

Jive, muffled by Lend’s shoulder: We both know this’ll happen again

Lend pulled him back to look at him in the eyes

Lend: And each time I’ll give you a reminder of your stupidity

She dropped him, and due to being almost twice as tall, Jive stumbled once he hit the ground.

Jive Sarcastically: Great…

Lend then kneeled and hugged Jive less tightly, while smiling

Lend, jokingly: Idiot Bartender

Jive, hugged her back while smiling: You too, Drunk Russian

With everyone

Uzi laid in a circle of oil in her Solver form with long tentacles. She wakes up and the oil gets sucked into her as she gags and coughs. She looks towards the other planets as it is tinted red.

Thad and Lizzy climb back up as Thad launches himself up with his skateboard and Lizzy tries to take a selfie but drops her phone and slips. Candy quickly grabs her hand and pulls her up.

Candy: Don’t be falling now, I don’t want to lose my bestie.

Lizzy: I don’t want to lose me either, I mean, whatever.

Khan grunts as he slips down: Agh!

Lizzy's phone lands on Khan's head, causing him to lose grip even more and he falls but Nori uses her Solver to catch him and bring him back up.

Khan: Oof! Whoop!

Looks at Nori: Phew. Uh...

Khan chuckles: Thank-

Nori was shaking, pointing at Khan: You don't know me and…

She extends her core towards Khan and back: …I hate you!

Nori hollers, faceplanting into the ground while running away which confused Khan, he thought on this when the teacher lifts himself up but lowers himself back down as Khan begins talking.

Khan thinks aloud: Kinda hot?

The school bus drives out of the hole with the Sentinel on it as it roars at Lizzy and Thad as Lizzy makes an annoyed expression.

Lizzy: Ugh.

While the Sentinel drives at Lizzy and Thad, N and V fly out and onto trees and see Uzi, flying towards her. N and Uzi then run towards eachother and hug.

N: Uzi?

N: gasps: UUUUUUUUUZIIIIIII!!!!

V: Ugh.

V hits N.

N stops hugging: Ow.

V notices Uzi's eyes, pushes N away and points her gun at Uzi.

V gasps: Get back!

Uzi flicks her hand at V's gun, moving it to not face her as she looks into N's visor to see her reflection.

N: Uzi? Is-

Uzi laughs: Oh, hell, yeah! I'm a damaged OC.

V droops down, sighing in annoyance: Ugh. It's her.
She crosses her arms.

N: It's you!

N grabs Uzi, hugging her as they laugh until Uzi jumps out of N's hands, launching herself towards V and annoys her.

V: Ugh, ow!

As they all rejoiced, the others were resting. Shadow and Doll sat under a stiff tree. The two were holding hands together.

Me and Cyn stood over the area watching it all. J was close to us but then looked at Cyn.

J: Cyn?

Cyn: Yes, J?

J: Can Tessa come back now?

Cyn: Of course, here she is.

Cyn teleported Tessa to them, she had been stuck in a cage this whole time and when she saw them all she sighed.

Tessa: About time, please get me out of here.

J: Trust me, I will.

J sliced Tessa free and the two began to walk away. As this was all going on, Dani was crawling from the rubble he was under.

As he watched them all he glared. His visor flashed a memory. Before this all happened, he was more social and had a big crush on Uzi but he had slipped up and it didn’t go anywhere, leaving him shunned. And now here she was with everyone and he was there, alone.

Now as he clung onto a building wall, watching them leave he couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of rage. A new purpose, to kill off the entire group.

Dani: Murderers…

A weeks time later

The scene cuts to Uzi's classroom with everyone in it. Everyone had come to the classroom.
Uzi: And, yep, that's how I learned nightmares are real, and we probably should have stayed behind the ol' doors.

Khan was outside the door: Whoo! All right!
Khan was looking through the door as Uzi uses her solver to break the glass.
Uzi: And that maybe I don't actually hate it here. As much.

Uzi's class had N and Thad cheering but V and Lizzy boo at them.

N: Whooooo-hoo-hoo-hoo! That's my girlfriend!

Doll rested her head on Shadow’s arm and Cyn clung up on the walls using her tentacles. Candy and Skorpion sat in their seats near Lizzy and V, who shared some AirPods right now. Both of them had cheerful smiles on their faces.

Candy: So you never got your revenge for Emily?

Skorpion: No, it’s better to let her rest and for things to just move on.

Candy: So wise.

Skorpion: Meh. Jive and Lend gave me that advice. What about you, did you get the thrill you had for Uzi and her vampire?

Candy: Yep! And I got closer to my best friends, mainly Lizzy!

Skorpion: That’s good.

Candy: So where are your friends anyways?

Skorpion: They’ll be at the bar for another month and then head off somewhere. I don’t know where.

Candy: Are you going with them?

Skorpion: I don't know.

N then throws a paper airplane at V as she reads it. Lizzy gives V a weird expression as V covers her face with her hand.

Uzi then suddenly turns into her Solver form along with me.

Uzi: Also, now, we can do this! Hah!

Uzi's classmates: AAAA-

Credits roll with the song Forevermore.

And when the ice sets in, I'll need you. If only when we met, We knew you. And then our time concludes, And far beyond the stars we flew, Forever. Tell myself I lost my soul for you. Go there after, See you never.

Cyn on a black screen with me and Shadow: Who's ready for season 2?

Shadow: Who are you talking too?

Cyn waves with a silly smile and face gesture.

Notes:

If you have any decisions you’d like to make or changes you’d like.

As Cyn said, who’s ready for season 2?

This time you can request what you want to see and what you want to happen. Copper 9 has a lot to explore afterall.

There will be TADC characters coming in soon as well. It’ll be like they escaped in a way and now they’d be on Copper 9 and if they die they go home but Caine won’t let them die so easily and won’t tell them so there’s that.

I know things aren’t the best with your OCs so yeah, let me know what I should add and order things in at.

See you wonderful readers later. That’s all folks!

Chapter 13: ANNOUNCEMENT!

It’s that time again folks, Christmas time! So to honor the holiday season, I want to have a Christmas special.

You may request your OC’s to be in it. The only OC’s not involved are Jive and Lend, so far.

Characters included are the main cast and D and Shadow. By main cast, I mean everyone who wasn’t an OC.

So give me ideas, thoughts, request, and I’ll begin my work.

UPDATE: I won’t be able to release this on Christmas Day due to a lack of ideas.

Notes:

Thanks for finishing this little part and I'll work on the next one very soon. Have a great day/night and any timeframe in between. This is a passion project and I'll try to satisfy everyone so just say the word and I'll see what I can do. That's all folks!