Chapter 2: Of Memories
I DO NOT OWN MURDER DRONES
Poster art was made by me.
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Chapter 2 : Of Memories
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Metallic Flesh and Oil splattered everywhere as a soft gentle light from a core continued to dim and shimmer as each second passed.
N gaped as he looked down at his chest, his arms spread wide to protect his wife and daughter behind him.
An anguished scream rang out as Uzi's purple hand reached out, hoping to save the one in front of her, any kind of help. Even as she wished a purple symbol would appear, her hopes fell even deeper when the symbol refused to appear.
A purple droneling, Luzi, being held by her mother did not know what to do, nor what to think this, she too young to properly process what was happening.
Desperation coiled and twisted knots in her stomach as she watched from afar, no matter how fast V willed her wings to fly faster, desperately reaching out to those two who should have earned themselves peace.
NO! NO! NOOO!
Even as she broke the sound barrier itself, leaving a visible shockwave across the buildings as she flew by.
She never made it in time.
The hat of a pilot fell into the cold soft snow, marred by blood and oil.
A thud of a body as their loved one died in front of them.
"N! NOOOO!-" V screamed
"OOOO-."
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V woke up in a metaphorical cold sweat, gasping
for her breath. She took a few more minutes to finally calm down.
She sat up from her bed, and held a hand to her chest, her eyes were hollowed as she continued to shake. Slowly she began to relax.
She leaned to the wall next to her bed, closing her eyes as she sighed.
"Nightmares again.. Who programmed us to have nightmares..?" V muttered as she opened her eyes. Drones don't exactly have dreams, it's more of basking in their past memories and reliving them to an extent.
"N... " If he was here he would have offered a hug and a bunch of golden-retriever behavior cuddling.
She put her hands on her face and sobbed a little, she was too late..
Never was she so regretful for not being fast enough, if she had gotten there faster she might have been able to...
...
She shook her head to get her thoughts together, thinking about him hurt quite a lot.
Oh right, she has to apologize to Luzi. Her 'not-daughter-but-feels-like-one' is probably upset for bringing up the purple idiot who may not even be alive anymore. V stood up from her bed to get ready, she walked to the cabinet that contained her modified aviator-jacket that had a long waist coat to cover her bottoms. What? She liked fashion every now and then.
First things first, wake the two adorkables, then make food. Lastly, apologize to Luzi. Sounds like a plan.
...
"I can't believe of all the people who would be fit enough to be domestic for kids would be me..." V massaged her 'temples'.
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Luzi wasn't that upset, or so she thinks. She wore a frown as her expression when she woke up, she groaned as the first thing she remembered was getting upset at V. She knew she didn't mean what she said, and only wanted to cheer up.
But still.. Topics that involve 'Her' is a sore spot for Luzi, why.. Did she leave?
Before she could continue on with her thoughts, a knock came from her door. She got up and opened to see V who had a gentle expression.
"Hey kiddo... Dinner?"
Luzi just nodded, she followed V to the table where the two yellow-eyed dronelings were at. Luzi smiled at the sight of her sisters, she grabbed a chair and sat down as V started placing down some refined-Oil and Batteries (you can think of Mechnical parts as food for them)
As always, V makes the best foods around here. Luzi looked at her built-in inner clock and saw that she had an hour before she went to school.
Luzi finished eating her food after a few minutes, she made a gesture to stand up and prepare before V stopped her.
"Luzi, before you go.. I didn't mean it like that last night, sorry kiddo." V held out a hand to her.
Luzi looked at V for a few seconds before going off, "I know. " she said as she sighed. That was damn awkward as both didn't know what to say to one another, V hadn't meant it like that and wanted to apologize while Luzi didn't really hold anything against V.
Soon after Luzi already went outside the house after dinner to go to her school, V looked at her with worry from their house as she watched Luzi leave.
She shook her head and sighed, hopefully that'll settle it down later, she'd raised Luzi enough to know that she wasn't that upset with her.
Hmph. She'll just give her a gift or something she can find outside the Outpost.
She'll probably use it to build something 'worthy of being angsty and rebellious'.
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After V brought both the dronelings into their respective classes(Aralee and Vivy). V flew across the small-city-sized Outpost that had expanded underground, expanding had been easy with the help with disassembly drones ironically. V landed in front of a business-attired building.
Entering the building, it was filled with workers all wearing office uniforms. One female worker approached her and bowed her head.
"Good Morning, Miss V, CEO Representative J was waiting for your arrival." The worker passed her a clipboard to sign in her name, V wasn't exactly sure as to why she had to write her name every time she entered this place.
But hey, it's J so it kinda checks out.
"When does she not? I literally go here everyday on time." V scoffed, crossing her arms, J can be demanding sometimes. "Tell her I'll go up there later, I'm gonna go che-" V waved off the worker as she walked past her.
However V did not get far before the Female worker cut her off.
"Ma'am, It's urgent. It's.. about 'her' as CEO J put it.. Not exactly sure what, but she told me to tell you anyways."
V stopped at that, she turned back and narrowed her eyes. There's no one else that came to V's mind, the only person they'd bother telling her as 'urgent' was HER, well unless CYN with the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] came back it'll stay like that .
"Give me the full Report, now. "
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Pure bliss, Pure bliss was what J felt.
OR What it would have been if not for the goddamn fact that multiple alarming reports had come to her hours ago. She had been relaxing on her chair looking out at the window with a glass of extremely refined-Oil, living out her paradise as CEO of her own company no less!(even if it took years for people to start working under her), she was still directly working under Tessa, all they mostly did was collect oil and refine them for residents of their expanded Outpost. Until she started hiring other Disassembly drones that came to their outpost in hopes of finding a safe haven from those shitty ass flesh-machine amalgamates, her company grew even more from just an oil-refinery, they're effectively an organization now.
Ahh... such pleasure, then headaches started appearing. They received some damage and their communications with their Oil-supplier(Tessa who was in another planet) had been cut off unknowingly, then a new type of Eldritch been spotted an HOUR after their communications were cut off, if that wasn't enough Uzi-FUCKING-Doorman's beanie and an arm that was supposedly hers was found, normally she would have called her scouts idiotic toasters for suspecting common garbage that can be found outside to be Uzi's. If not for the damned ring that was on the severed arm, the same ring she's seen N and Uzi with for YEARS.
All of this happened within a day, which was yesterday night when most drones are charging
They didn't exactly like each other, in fact, they tried to kill each other again a few times before N and Tessa stopped them. That stopped when Aralee and Vivy were born.
J had a SOFT spot for those two, they were just too cute, they even started to learn business ethics and buzzwords.
Maybe she'll ask little Quinzlet to be her protege or something.
Oh and those Cuuutteee Ponytails that fit them..
Maybe she should try to have kids sometime in the future.
Nope. She can't really imagine herself doing that, the only one that was at the very least suitable and proper for her was dead, and he was married too..
She'd seen how much being a father changed him, he went from stud to unbelievably efficient and serious when he wanted to.
What a shame.
But still, these damned headaches caused by the current recent events made her headache.
Fucking Eldritches. Fucking Uzi. Fucking everything.
AND MOST OF ALL FUC-
The ding of an elevator snapped her out of her inner monologues. She put the glass of wine?(Oil) down at the long conference desk and walked towards behind her desk.
The door to her office opened revealing V with a serious and grim expression.
"J, What."
"V, Good to see you arrived rather quickly, it would have been troublesome to wait for too long, my employees and interns are not exactly as efficient but-"
V scoffed and immediately cut to the point "Save the corporate talk J, what kind of urgent situation are we talking about? And.." V paused, as her eyes looked down for a few moments. "What did you mean by 'HER'?"
J smiled at this, she didn't like that she was interrupted, but being straight to the point is favorable to her.
"The purple pipsqueak may or may not be alive." J snapped her fingers. A worker drone, complete in a suit, brought a piece of folded cloth that seemed to have something inside. He placed the cloth down at the edge of the long table, near where V stood, J stayed sitting in her desk as she gestured for V to unfold the cloth.
V narrowed her eyes as she looked back from J to the piece of cloth. She walked towards it and unfolded the piece of cloth.
"This-!" V's eye hollowed as she saw what was inside the piece of cloth, Uzi's signature beanie and an arm, to which V's guess would also belong to Uzi due to the ring that was preoccupying the severed arm's ring finger.
"Where did you-"
"One of the scouts found it outside during the expedition, our communications with Tessa were cut off by someone or something, a new type of eldritch was also found at the location where we found... That, Why or what it was doing there is still something we were trying to figure out. "
J placed her hands on the desk as she gave V a grim look, "If our findings are right.. These all happened within the span of an hour V, the amount of oil splattered found and it's freshness was new. That's damn unnatural because if there was some kind of fight that took place, we would have been alerted by our systems, there's something going out there and we don't know a single thing about it, Uzi is obviously involved in this somehow if what we found was anything to go by, SHE had been the one who was able to figure out things about the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] that had gotten us all into defeating the solver after all." J interlocked her hands together as she Intimidatingly looked at V.
"If she's indeed involved in this, finding her and getting information will be a top priority right now, since we don't know anything about that new Eldritch or how our communications were cut Off, that is, If she's still alive.."
"Of course she's alive, that little gremlin is stubborn as she gets. " V hissed, but with no hostility. That little shit better be still alive, V was gonna tear her canned ass open for leaving Luzi and Aralee.
"Of course V, we should still take other factors into account, there was a trail of oil that connected back the arm, by the time our scouts followed it, the trail stopped at the edge of a cliff, presumably she fell off.
Remember V, with the absolute solver absolutely gone, our regenerative capabilities disappeared, that went the same for Solver users, with that much Oil-loss and with a fall that high.
And she no longer has access to her wings too.
Her chances don't exactly look favorable V"
V frowned, she knew there was still a possibility that Uzi was already dead by now, the outside was too damn dangerous even for people like her, Uzi no longer had the Solvers powers to protect herself.
Shit, V had been ecstatic about news about Uzi that she'd forgotten about the fact her SEVERED ARM was quite literally in front of her. "Even if you've told me that J, I would still-"
"Find her and bring her depressed ass back, even if she was a corpse." J finished V's words for her, "Which is why I'm having you find her, SHEs your top priority now, I can tell that you believe that she's still alive. " J gave her a wry smile.
"You.." V looked at J with an indescribable expression.
"I'll handle the other factors on my side, regaining communications with Tessa is MY top priority now, I'm having you find Uzi since you know her better than any of us right now, I'll leave this to you V."
V looked at her still with slight shock, before she relaxed and smiled. "This is why you're the leader."
J snickered at that and waved her off, "Of course I am, despite my differences with N and how I acted back then, I'm still a great leader."
V gave a wave of her own, but not before grabbing Uzi's beanie and ring. "I'll be taking this by the way, I'm sure you won't be needing this."
J shrugged and watched V close the door.
She leaned back on her office chair and spun around to face the glass view. "Coulda taken the arm too. "
She smiled before remembering that she still had to deal with the interrupted communication with Tessa.
...
"Fucking hell, I'm gonna need more wine for this.." she sighed.
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Luzi groaned as she practically dashed out of the classroom, stupid classmates laughing at her for getting sent to the Teachers Faculty.
She walked forward with a frown on her face, her two friends behind her
Brad, Lizzy and Thad's son(Surprisingly these two got together with V here). walked behind her as he tried to comfort her to the best of his abilities.
Quinzlet, J's youngest intern, someone who J was fond of, mostly because of how business minded she was. She crossed her arms as she followed after her friends. Carefree of any annoyances.
"They probably didn't mean it, Lu." Brad rested a hand on Luzi's shoulder as they walked, Brad gave her nickname "Lu" because apparently LUZI was too long to say, goddamn it Brad.
"Brad, our creepy Russian Teacher barely scolds anyone, even less calling them into the teachers' Faculty. In fact, I was the first one she scolded and brought to the Faculty." Luzi Deadpanned.
Brad looked from side to side, his Dad told him to be there for Luzi at all, considering the fact that the Doorman Family has trouble coping with traumas and issues alone even if they acted nothing was wrong, Luzi herself had been bullied quite a few times before and she'd just bottled it all up.
As light as the bullying was, it was still bullying,
and that can put a dent on a person the more often it happens.
Brad didn't know what to say to comfort her so he just went with the first thing that came to mind, "Well uh.. First time for everything? You only got a sermon and you even got back your weapon. " Brad brought a hand up and gave her a thumbs up.
This made Luzi smile even just a bit, Quinzlet also reciprocated the gesture and gave her a thumbs up as well.
What? Just because she was J's favorite intern didn't mean she was as egotistical, she also still also cared a lot about her friends even though she's quiet most of the time.
Eventually they reached the outside of the enlarged-school that could pass off as a small mansion.
The front gate of the school was crowded with students that were on their way to their own respective homes, so they'd just slipped by on a different path to avoid having to go inside the wave of students. There was no way they were going to go through that.
"By the way, Lu. Quinzlet is asking if you wanted to go with us to JESSA's." JESSA is J's company which was named after her and Tessa. The name sounded to stupid to Luzi, J on the other hand seemed to love it due to how it was named after her boss. "She said had something to show us." He pointed a thumb to Quinzlet who was still behind them.
Quinzlet just gave a quiet nod and two thumbs ups to Luzi.
Luzi looked back and forth to Brad and Quinzlet before raising an eyebrow, she shrugged and accepted the offer hesitantly, she could probably go see and her Auntie J even if she didn't like her.
Meh, not like she had much to do right now, might as well use the time to hangout with friends.
When they arrived at JESSA's, led by Quinzlet after taking a shortcut, the place was rowdy and filled with drones walking back and forth to attend to their own tasks, it seemed some of them were even sweating digitally.
Okay that's weird, this place was always busy. But not THIS busy, something was probably going on here, the teenage-drones walked past the workers that were scurrying off with files and papers with minimal difficulty thanks to Quinzlet, after a few weaving around they walked through a hallway that seened to have multiple rooms and quarters. Eventually they reached a room that seemed to have some... decorations, was this Quinzlet's home/room? Why was she living here?
As if reading her thoughts, Quinzlet gave passed her a leaflet
Oh, Oh, OH. So that's why.
\\Free Rooms and Quarters for Interns, alongside free meals! Come and enter an internship at JESSA's/
Is what was written on the leaflet, so that's why she saw a few students enter this place, they offered quarters and rooms for those who entered an internship here, huh.
Luzi should have expected that from her Auntie J, she'd visit her right now but seeing how busy it is here, she decided against it to not bother her.
"Huh, didn't expect it to be.. pinkish and blackish here, Quinz" Brad inspected the room as he entered, he smiled when he saw a row of plushies sitting on a short cabinet.
Quinzlet raised an eyebrow at him, as if asking him 'What did you mean by that?'
"Ahh.. not like that, Quinz I was just talking to myself! "
Before it could escalate any further, Luzi asked something of Quinzlet while she sat in one of the chairs near the table.
Quinzlet's eyes gleamed as she looked away from Brad, she ran off to her bed and grabbed something underneath. She probably found what she was looking for as her expression changed to something of smugness
"This." Quinz grabbed a plastic box, it was completely compact and black, similar to those of a shoe box. It looked a little heavy from how she struggled a little to lift it up, when she did she slammed it on top of the table. She waved her hand towards the box as if saying 'Check this shit out.'
Quinzlet had a wry smile on her face as she explained what it was.
"Is something I found during the company's short expedition a few hours ago before I went to school, we were sent to check out some malfunctions and maintenance on a radio station near the outpost, apparently the communications with our Oil-supplying human, Tessa was cut off." Quinzlet explained with her small quiet voice, normally interns and workers wouldn't be sent outside for expeditions or scouting. Those were usually left to combatants and experts on the field, like disassembly drones.
However there were times they needed more than just experience on stealth and recon, they also needed to fix some appliances and technology.
In this case it was the Radio Station that was stationed a few miles off the Outpost, whose communications were cut off both physically and technology-wise.
Brad crossed his arms behind his head and leaned on them while he sat on a chair next to Luzi, visibly curious with what Quinzlet found.
Luzi on the other hand, was more curious of what Quinzlet said, unlike her. Quinzlet was able to go outside the campus, so she probably saw a lot of the Outside, maybe even seen Eldritches.
"While we were checking the communication relay, I found something shining through the snow and found." Quinzlet grabbed the cover of the box and opened it. "Beautiful piece of artwork." It was a Handgun, something similar to a Thompson Contender with a more advanced appearance.
Luzi immediately saw the components and what type of gun it was meant to be.
This was an actual representation of a Railgun because of how it was built, the entirety of the small gun had an open mouth that started from the muzzle of the weapon, as if something was meant to pass through it with high-speeds. Usually one would think 'Obviously bullets duh.' but inside the mouth of the gun was several rows of electro-magnetic parts, something to compress an object so hard it's launched at high kinetic speeds, there was also no magazine dock, instead there was a visible hole at the back of the gun, presumably where the bullet is loaded into. Something she's seen with her mom when she was small.
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Wait-
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Quinzlet was pleased with her new findings, she wasn't a weapons expert nor anyone interested in them, but the fact she found something this sick and beautiful was enough to lift her moods up.
Well, she couldn't exactly use it herself because she didn't know WHAT kind of ammunition this uses, she's an intern, not a gun nut.
Both of her best friends were visibly shocked as she twirled the gun by its trigger guard.
She was a quiet girl most of the time, that caused her to be unable to make friends, that changed however when she met these two dorks, they were adorably awkward. Pretty much the same as her, Brad was a social butterfly but that didn't mean he wasn't shy sometimes. Luzi was their leader or something, since she's usually leading them and hanging out with them the most.
It was normally average work for Quinzlet to do paperwork and fix some technology mishaps, but being called to go on an expedition and investigate problems with a communication relay was NOT common.
Nor was going outside, thankfully every time she went outside alongside her selected squad mates for expeditions or information gathering they never encountered a single Eldritch, those things were terrifying and she hasn't even seen one personally despite being outside.
Going outside has its perks though, she usually brings something back that catches her attention, usually an accessory, she's always careful to do since some Eldritch had been reported to be able to create nigh-accurate Holograms.
Scary.
The gun on her hands that was currently twirling within her fingers was her best found yet, she'll ask Luzi to find out how to use this sweet baby gun so she can protect herself during expeditions.
She's the one who's really good with machines and weapons after all.
She opened her eyes to start showing off her newfound gun, but stopped as soon as she saw Luzi's hollowed eyes of shock, she could even see a few pixels of tears trying to drip out of her eyes.
She stopped twirling the gun as she started getting worried, Brad also looked more nervous rather than shocked. What? Did she do something wrong?
Did Quinzlet actually bring an Eldritch inside the outpost that was disguised as a small gun? That there's something looming behind her that would probably kill her as soon as she turned around?
Just like that one manga she'd read from Luzi?
Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god, Oh god. Oh god. Oh god
Quinzlet was about to speak her dramatic last words and continue on with her fantasies when Luzi spoke first.
"That's my Mom's Shinaosu! That's her gun that she made when I was small!" Luzi practically jumped as she stood up and slammee her hands on the table, tears falling out of her eyes as she pointed a finger at the familiar gun.
Brad also stood up and held Luzi, seeing as she was about to jump at Quinzlet, well, her eyes were hyperfocused on the handgun so she was probably aiming to jump for the gun itself.
"What?", Quinzlet was confused as fuck, her Mom's weapon? And 'Shinaosu'? That was literally japanese. Was Luzi pranking her or what? A second ago she was ready to say her last words because she thought she'd let an Eldritch in the form of a gun inside the Outpost, She'd seen this scene before from a manga!
She would have said something about Luzi probably just being jealous over the gun, but after seeing her pained expression and tears, and mentioning her Mom which was a BIG NO-NO, put a damper on that.
Quinzlet knew the topic about her mom was a SORE spot for Luzi, Quinzlet's parents were still around so she was fine on that side of life, but for Luzi...
"This.. " Quinzlet looked at the Rail-Handgun in her hand, "Is your mother's?"
Luzi looked like she was going to have some sort of panic attack, or faint, Quinzlet wasn't sure.
"Yes! How did you find it?! Where did you get it!? Did you steal it?! HOW!?"
Oh great she was starting to accuse her, 'I think I've read this before, people under huge amounts of stress and past traumas usually makes them Irrational.
Luzi was wriggling under Brad's arms as he held her back, he tried to consulate Luzi before the situation escalated towards shit-levels.
"Lu, calm down! She said she found it during her time outside! She didn't take it or steal it!" He was starting to lose his grip over Luzi, Holy fucking shit, since Luzi was unusually short for a teenager despite being a hybrid, he forgot she's still a HYBRID.
No matter how close the appearance of a Hybrid to a worker drone was, Hybrids were still stronger even by just a little. Even if they didn't have any capabilities pure disassembly drones have such as multi-retractable weapons, nanite acid tails or just plain pure strength and speed.
Luzi was the one of the very few hybrids in this outpost, considering there're only 6 Hybrids known right now, Aralee and Vivy included.
And, Brad and Quinzlet were none of them.
Brad forced as much strength as he could into holding back Luzi before she accidentally hurt their friend.
Quinzlet was quick to connect things together and dropped the weapon onto the table and took a few steps back.
Brad, seeing that Quinzlet was out of the danger zone, let go of Luzi as she speedblitz towards the gun and hugged it.
She fell down to the ground and laid down on the floor while crying, she went into a fetal position as she continued to cry uncontrollably. She was murmuring 'Please don't leave me' repeatedly which hurt both of the two other's cores.
Brad and Quinzlet looked at each other with nervous hollowed eyes as they weren't sure what to do other than try to comfort Luzi, but as of right now.
Letting her emotions out seemed the best option as to not get accidentally ripped apart by their friend and have her live with the guilt.
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Flying through the underground had always been a weird thing for V, she was used to flying in open air for the most part or her life, being able to freely glide through the clouds under the moonlight as she her alone times. She didn't necessarily think all about bloodshed(oil-shed?) back before they met Uzi, it was mostly her having to act as if she'd changed the most out of her squad, N stayed a happy get-go and J became bitchier, otherwise the Solver would have done something to her in order to avoid insubordination. After all, the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] had sent them to Copper 9 to try and spread more of it's curse.
They'd made sure it couldn't, it wouldn't be back permanently.
V got out of her thoughts when she saw the huge form of Gate A-7 that led upwards to the previous upper layers of Outpost 3, now named Outpost Alpha. The very same place she and J had invaded, the Material Collection mode of the Solver, the place where Doll's attempt for revenge happened.
The once before Outpost 3 had become more of an outer layer for defenses, where most Disassembly drones resided.
V landed in front of the 35 Meter tall gate and crossed her arms, before a reinforced door next to the gigantic gate was opened, a personnel-unit door if you will. Opening and closing the big-giant-ass Gate would take too long, it was too much of a bother to open a loud slow gate just for one person.
V entered the door, it was mostly pitch black as she continued walking the dark hallway, darkness wasn't really a problem for her because of her other 'eyes',
She continued walking until the path eventually became tilted upwards,the smooth-slanted ground became mostly dirt and soil, and the hallway soon became a cave system fit enough to fit multiple heavy-duty vehicles. Well, of course it could, the path widened with that purpose in mind, the small road lights were there for a reason to help regular workers with navigating through the cave-like path. A sign she was nearly there.
Seriously though, why haven't they added actual lights in here yet?
V took a look at her built-in inner-clock to see the time, it was currently 03:06 AM, about the time Luzi got out of school, her classes lasted for about 5 - 6 hours.
After V met up with J, she returned back home and dropped Uzi's Beanie while keeping the ring with her, she also put down a letter for Luzi, since she won't be able to grab Aralee and Vivy she needed Luzi to get them for her and give them food until she gets back. Granted, it might worry them since she won't probably be back for a day or two.
Oh and, she grabbed her satchel full of Oil and vials for her to use during her search.
The darkness of the cave finally, slowly disappeared as she reached the end of the path.
Light came greeting in as she surfaced from the underground, she was welcomed by the sight of the inside of the old Outpost 3.
Before she could go in any further, the station guard, a worker drone, had checked in her first, despite how popular she was, security was a need.
You never know when you're talking to a Hologram.
She walked further inside after being checked in, the Old Outpost itself wasn't that small, it was capable of holding more than 500 residents.
But with the increasing amount of drones going to their Outpost for safety, they had to expand. With the help of Tessa and the other Disassembly Drones of course.
V arrived where to the Hall where the first four doors were made by Kahn, near where N first pinned Uzi to the wall, it was funny how she didn't notice it at first when it was Uzi who was currently skebabed by N to the wall, she only knew when Uzi told her stories while she was drunk. Even to this day that was one of the funniest times for V, the purple moron had confessed a lot when she was drunk, apparently she'd found it hot when N pinned her to the wall again by accident when what actually happened was N's wings had caught her by accident when they tried to fiddle around with it.
V's expression had become more serious when she went through the fourth door, now that there's a possibility to find Uzi she's more determined to find the purple shit, of course, she'll try to find out a thing or two about the communication being dead.
They currently had a total 4,531 Residents, including the 501 still living in Outpost 3, that meant having no supply of Oil for them, not that the Workers actually needed them that much, since they recharge most of the time. It was mostly for them Disassembly Drones and machines that required Oil.
With at least 15 different Disassembly Drones present here alongside herself, 21 if the hybrids were to be included.
The first two doors had been upgraded, being unbelievably reinforced against Eldritches.
The space in between Door 3 and 4 had been turned into a heavily armed station with three Disassembly drones on standby and 15 armed worker drones.
Eldritches weren't to be taken easily after all.
Theoretically, one disassembly drone was more than enough to kill an Eldritch.
IF they were careful and skilled enough.
V was soon snapped out of her thoughts when a Male Disassembly drone walked up to her and stood still, completely stopping her from getting to Door 3, V took one look at the disassembly drone to see who it was and immediately scoffed when she saw who it was.
"Heeyyy there V." A haughty tone came from the man as he ran a hand through his hair and winked at V.
V Immediately grew a digital tick in her temple, this man already INFURIATED her from those words alone, she was already in a good mood about receiving news about Uzi, she didn't want this... This asshole to ruin it.
"Len.." V hissed with more venom than what she usually gives Doll.
"Whoa, Easy babe. Just came here to say Hello." Len gave her a wry smile as he waved at her obvious infuriation against him. This was Len. He was one of the few Disassembly drones that had agreed to work under J for both a safety haven and Oil supply.
He wore an open long jacket and cargo pants as his clothes, just like the rest of the disassembly drones he had a pale hair, sharp upwards and tilted to the left hair.
Despite being a Disassembly drone, he'd changed his name just like most disassembly drones instead of sticking with the usual one letter.
It was obvious enough to say that V HATED this guy.
He arrived here years ago alongside his squad, the very first thing he'd done when he saw her was flirt with her, and started rambling shit about how she was 'Angelic' and how they were 'meant to be. '
Right. In front. of N, her Husband.
Oh and Uzi was there too I guess.
That was easily one of the best moments of N, because simply put, that was the first time they saw their shared husband go apeshit on someone that wasn't J, yep that was hot for both Uzi and V.
Hell, even J was there to witness it and she was scared shitless. (For context, J at one point had nearly killed Uzi and that did not sit well with N, they made up later though.) Len however did not stop his advances towards her despite being put to a near-death state by N.
Even now, this asshole did not stop with his advances despite the fact she's married... She's never saying "Was" even if N is dead.
"Piss off, Len, I don't have time for you." She shoulder checked past him, she didn't get far when Len rested an arm around her neck and put his face close next to her.
"Aww.. don't be like that, kinda hurts my core babe. Frowning all the time is bad for beauty, you know?"
He attempted to flirt with her one more than before a foot-joint found itself in his face
Len was promptly thrown back like a ragdoll as he went tumbling on the ground.
"MEILI! WHAT THE FUCK?!" Len immediately stood up with a cracked screen on his face, which pleased V.
The female disassembler merely crossed her arms and ignored him.
The aforementioned Meili, a female disassembly drone with a long flowing dress that exposed one of her legs stood there next to V. Unlike most Disassembly drones, Meili had orange flowing hair instead of the usual white. Apparently she'd been very ecstatic about JCJENSON not being a thing anymore, or the fact that she no longer has to follow their rules of uniform-code.
From what V heard, Meili immediately dyed her hair orange using some hair dye from SOMEWHERE.
She was one of the few friends V had here, probably because she was chill.
Meili looked at V, and V just thanked her silently, 'Thanks for kicking his ass, I didn't need it today. '
Meili just nodded at her before she pointed her thumb back at Door 3,"Mistress CEO messaged us a few minutes ago, are you sure about going alone..?"
Meili asked with concern for her friend.
V returned her concern with a comforting smile, "Don't worry, I'll just be searching for a certain Idiot, won't be fighting unless I need to."
Meili looked at her with doubt, she didn't like her friend going out for extended periods of time.
V's duty usually lasts for 30 minutes only, that goes the same for every drone when they patrol.
But now? V was going to be outside for a good amount of time, and there was this feeling of dread she didn't understand where it came from.
But.. she does trust V to be careful, Meili took out the keycard and opened the door behind her while ignoring Len.
V gave her a wave and continued to the last few doors.
Meili closed the blast-door and turned to Len who still has a cracked visor.
"You deserved it." Meili scoffed.
"Fuck you." Len gave her the finger before he went off to the clinic.
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After V talked to the worker drones guarding the last door, they finally let her through, but not before giving her a salute.
Hmph.
V took in a deep 'breath' as she inspected the outside again.
The spire was gone as they took it down per Tessa's request, they managed to clean most of the parts of their territory here back before the whole Eldritch thing happened.
It was still just as clean, with the exception of the very noticeable slumps of burned flesh sticking to the sides of the taller buildings.
She put a hand to her red scarf before pulling it up to her mouth. She gripped it hard as she mentally prepared herself for everything.
Shit.
This wasn't going to be an easy task.
"You better be fucking alive by the time I find you, Uzi."
She unfurled her bladed wings of death and took off to the skies.
...
What she didn't notice as she flew by was a set of Red eyes following her, Eight bladed limbs cackling in joy for a potential prey.
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A/N :
1.Yes, N is married to V and Uzi. How that happened? It'll be told eventually as the story goes on.
2.Yes, yes. He's dead, hints of how it happened will be dropped once in a while.
It'll also be explained why he cant be revived via Tessa or a clone.
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