章節 10: A mole finally whacked (Mole Arc Finale)
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Chapter 10 : A mole finally whacked (Mole Arc Finale)
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It was just a mere 10 minutes ago that V was scouting the area with Isaac who was clinging onto her waist for dear life as they flew, she was tolerating the teenager if only because he had his priorities straight and was determined to find her "Teacher", aka Uzi who was still missing.
Her scanners searched through the area as they flew, they've been doing the same thing for hours and she was starting to get reasonably bored and annoyed.
"Miss V! Look!" Isaac pointed to a painfully bright spot in the sky that grew bright.
It was only when a violet beam had shot off into the sky, brightening and filling the sky with a violet flash of light, it was even strong enough to cause a small gust of wind to come rushing towards everywhere.
V and Isaac had been only a few hundred meters away where the beam came from.
Her oil immediately grew cold when she realized where the beam had come from.
She'd patrolled around this part of the city enough to know where it had come from.
Outpost Alpha.
"Brat! Hold on tight." V redirected the trajectory of her flight towards the beam which has started to dissipate, the violet bright sky slowly turning back to normal.
"Wha-AHHHHH?!" Isaac nearly experienced a whiplash across his neck when V released a burst of speed from her wings, easily breaking the sound barrier as she usually does.
Isaac kept screaming as they whistled through the air like a fighter jet at maximum velocity, by the time they arrived near the sector Outpost 3 and Outpost Alpha was in, the beam of light had already disappeared with a noticeably large hole on the ground.
V's worry was slowly creeping inside her as she tried to avoid thinking about what the beam of light could have come from, deep inside she had a vague idea of where it had come from, and that thought brought shivers to her.
Uzi's Hand-Railgun did not release a blast of energy, it was just a projectile piercing through anything it's pointed to.
Her daughter's on the other hand.. She didn't want to think about it, Luzi was intelligent enough to know that leaving a giant hole in the underground was a whole can of worms waiting to happen, there's no way Eldritches wouldn't notice a way inside to the Outpost.
She would never use it discriminately right..?
V clenched her fist as she flew closer, the other only possible reasons that Luzi used that railgun of hers which was – to V's surprise – working functionally and leagues stronger than Uzi's was either she's testing it, again, she'll never do so with the risk of endangering the Outpost.
Or she's in danger.
Which is unlikely, the Outpost was well guarded, there's nearly nothing that ever endanger her in there.
Whatever the case, she needed to get there now.
However when V drew closer to where the hole was, a name had entered her enhanced Audio receptors that brought ever the terrifying feeling of dread to her.
" LUUUUZZZII !"
J..?
She heard J's uncharacteristically horrified and despaired voice echoing from all the way from underground to surface.
That was enough to snap V to desperation and worry, J wasn't one to scream like that, not to mention her daughter's name so despairingly.
She immediately unhooked Isaac from her waist and slapped the satchel(Luzi's bag) in her to the boy's face before swiftly landing him onto the snowy ground near Outpost 3's gates.
Shen then proceeded to blast towards the hole created by Luzi's likely Plasma Railgun, uncaring of Isaac's very rough landing in favor of getting to her daughter as fast as she could.
V dived down the moment she was above the entrance.
Disassemblers, just like worker drones, had the capabilities to learn and adapt as they learn and grow up, such as learning how to do things such as building, cooking, inventing and other specifications. This is why there are repair drones who have learned how to fix and repair other drones.
Just like humans, they learned how to do things, given the existence of schools within their outposts.
This, also applied to experiences, such as combat reflexes and knowledge.
Worker drones are by default, weaker than Murder drones, that's common knowledge, but that did not mean they could not get used to life and death combat situations.
Uzi, Thad, Lizzy and Doll were prime examples of this. Despite being your average worker drones(With the exception of Doll and Uzi, even without the Solvers) they've learned how to stand their ground against opponents vastly superior or stronger than them, mostly due to the war against the Rogue Disassemblers.
One of the main adaptations of these was combat reflexes/reaction, the ability to react to things faster than others.
Even if they were machinery deep inside, adapting was something programmed onto drones.
Of course, there were exceptions like them Murder Drones, as they already have a programmed higher calculation of reaction speed for hunting, it may seem like a cheat if you could simply be upgraded and reprogrammed to have better combat capabilities rather than having to earn them through real combat, but hey, they were robots so who cares?
However, combining both aspects would result in a greater change.
V had both experience and programming from being upgraded to a Mark II and fighting.
So despite being hundreds of meters above ground zero of Underground City of Outpost Alpha mere milliseconds of entering the aforementioned Outpost, she immediately caught sight of her daughter impaled from the stomach as her oil and gadgetry spilled from her, helpless to do anything as she was lifted off the ground like a doll.
Crack.
Something inside V snapped, she was sure there was no sound that entered her audio receptors, but she knew something inside her broke.
What broke, was her world, that is.
Seeing her daughter being impaled had broken something inside V, guilt and regret that had been repressed in favor of taking care of family broke through like a lock snapping from being unable to hold a door.
Dread that were already creeping inside her had become terror.
Flashes of N being killed while she was helpless to do anything came back like a wave of heart breaking regret, she was too slow, too slow to save him.
Too slow to arrive and save N.
Too slow to be there for Uzi when she broke down.
Too slow to stop her friend from leaving her daughters.
And now.
Even if she hadn't expected it.
She was too slow to save her daughter.
Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow.
Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow .
YOU CAN'T EVEN SAVE YOUR FAMILY.
V landed aggressively on top of a house and flattened it, she didn't care if her servos screamed and pain or if her inner machinery were damaged from the insanely rough landing.
V felt nothing but pure anger, she glared furiously at Clawdreroff and uttered a few words that carried anger.
" GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY DAUGHTER ."
A good mother will always care for her family no matter what, even if she were to be saint-like or forgiving.
But there's no better mother that would do anything for her children.
Much less one that's willing to kill anything in her way.
Someone was going to die horribly.
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Hope.
J felt hope even for just a brief moment of the sight of her friend and squadmate.
She'd never been so happy too, to see her here arrive just in time, what felt like a hopeless situation as she screamed for her oldest Niece's name turned into something brighter, even if it was just slightly.
" GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY DAUGHTER ." V coldly said.
She inwardly slapped herself for her brief moment of relaxation when V landed and destroyed a building from her rageful landing, clearing the dust with a single flap of her wings.
J had never heard V's voice be so empty and furious at the same time, she doesn't know how V had arrived so fast, but they didn't matter as help was finally here.
She couldn't relax just yet, her Oldest niece was still in trouble, she'd been impaled from the stomach by the bastard's tail. Even if J acted cold towards Luzi, that didn't mean she didn't care for her, she was mostly doing it out of her own brand of caring, specifically tailored for Luzi, since she was the oldest of her niece's, she needed to be firm and strong.
Her niece's were the next best thing that had happened to her life, and she doesn't want them to get hurt much like V, but unlike her, J was filled with guilt and terror for not being able to protect Luzi when she was literally meters away from her before she got impaled, her brief moment of relaxation lowered her guard and got Luzi hurt.
She prepared to lunge forward to rescue Luzi from the Eldritch.
BOOM!
But it appears it was unneeded as V practically disappeared for an instant and reappeared next to the Eldritch before landing a punch onto the side of its face causing it to go flying, grabbing her daughter and pulling her off from the tail she was being impaled with before she could be pulled alongside the Eldritch that had violently crashed through a building from the force of V's punch.
V gently briddled her daughter and laid her to the ground, her expression was of a worried and grieved mother. A few tears falling from her eyes as she looked at her daughter's currently blackened visor, she brought Luzi's face to her's and hugged her while caressing her hair.
"Mommy's sorry.. I'm so sorry for being so slow.." V sobbed, J landed next to her with the same expression, expecting the worst for her niece.
V didn't seem to register her as she continued to bury her face in Luzi's hair and sob silently.
J's entire world was also about to break when she noticed Luzi's current appearance.
Huh?
Why was Luzi's visor empty? Usually when a drone dies there's always a 'FATAL ERROR' that fills their screen, worker or not.
J examined Luzi's injuries from the side, the only wound on her was the giant mess of a hole in her stomach from the Eldritch's tail, sure it was messy and inner machinery spilled from her but there was one thing that had caught J's attention, and the most important one of all..
Luzi's core was undamaged, she looked at her niece's hands and saw a dim light still glowing from her, including the one in her chest.
Then it suddenly clicked, Luzi was still alive, she just fell unconscious from the shock of being turned into a donut.
Overall, Luzi could be saved if she was brought to a Repair drone and was given immediate aid.
J concluded that V didn't seem to know this, she thinks she's dead..? J knew as hell that V was familiar with the signs of a drone's death of having a 'FATAL ERROR', no way she would forget that one detail since they've killed a lot of people before.
Unless V jumped into conclusions and feared for the worse... Which was the only possible explanation.
J held out a hand to call out to V who was still crying, before an explosion sounded off from a building's side being destroyed as the same Mole Eldritch that had been a menace to them walked out, free of damage.
J snarled, shit, she let her guard down again didn't she?! She forgot this guy was still here.
Feeling that V was not emotionally prepared to fight right now, J turned and brought out her swords and prepared to fight.
Behind her, V laid down Luzi as gently as she could and stood up silently.
She walked past J who looked at her uncertainty and worry, she didn't even get the chance to say anything when V suddenly sprung forward with her wings trailing behind, right arm already exchanged for a sword.
Clawdreroff gave off a monstrous roar and also lunged forward, they met each other with their respective blows colliding with one another, there was a brief shockwave that blew away the dust before V's sword immediately broke upon contact with the Eldritch's enclosed fist.
V nonchalantly weaved to the right and hid her wings when the Eldritch threw a punch at her, to which she grabbed onto the arm with a deadly grip and kicked both of her legs forward, Clawdreroff's eyes glinted for an instant before both legs stabbed onto it's distorted visor, completely unharmed.
V snarled and pushed off the arm she was holding onto when the Eldritch tried to grab her with its other three arms, she kicked off the ground and slid between its legs when it had tried to crush her with its legs.
V then immediately jumped in the air and exchanged both of her arms for laser cannons, she fired them continuously without any thought, the continuous blast of firepower kicked up a cloud of dust, obstructing V's sight. V narrowed her eyes, before emotionlessly leaning backwards when the Eldritch jumped towards her, claws ready to rip her apart if she were ever to get hit.
She performed a partial backflip before landing on the ground and dodging to the left when the Eldritch tried to chase her. V ducked below a swipe and exchanged her right arm for an assault rifle and pointed it point-black at its face, she fired as many bullets as she could within the small time-gap of getting free hits before flipping off another swipe.
V continued her cycle of raining down all her weaponry against the Eldritch while continuously dodging without care.
She switched from weapon to weapon, intending to kill the bastard that killed her daughter.
Luzi..
How dare..
HOW DARE THIS BASTARD TAKE HER DAUGHTER AWAY FROM HER.
V's eyes finally changed from the emotionless hollow eyes to a furious 'X'
" I'll tear you apart! "
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J carried Luzi as gently as she could, she carried her niece away from the fight that was going on, intending on giving aid to her instead of staying and being dead weight.
Eventually she found her JSD Employees that were taking cover, beside them were the Repair Drone crew tending to an Injured Ruther who was blown away from the earlier appearance of the Mole Eldritch after he tried to get to Luzi.
She hurriedly ran towards them, her niece in her arms.
"Repair Drone Squad! I need help now!" She yelled at them.
The crew of repair drones looked to her direction and nodded, immediately going into action as they led her to another building to rest Luzi down while one of them tended to Ruther and the other injured members.
"Shit, this looks bad." One of the Repair drones cursed after examining Luzi who was laid down on top of a long table.
"Less shitting your ass and grab the welder and bandages, we need to patch her up for the time being before we bring her to the main Building." The more experienced repair drone ordered as the others started to patch down Luzi's gaping stomach hole.
J grit her teeth, if only she hadn't let her guard down at the last minute, Luzi wouldn't have been hurt like this, that or if she had run towards Luzi instead when they needed her weapon.
"Focus your attention on my niece for the time being, she better not die!" J commanded the Repair Drone Squad who all nodded in acknowledgement "You, focus on the more wounded ones, the rest of you who can still move, bring them injured back to the Main Building."
J wanted to stay with Luzi to make sure she makes it out alive, but there was no doubt that V also needed help as she was fighting that thing alone, emotionally unstable too because she thinks Luzi is dead.
J grunted unsure of what to do.
Suddenly someone violently knocked on the door of the building they were in.
"C-Come on you damned red-eyed eyeclops." She heard a female voice's hoarsed and glitchy voice.
The door forcefully opened and someone sprawled on the floor.. Well, rather than just someone it's two individuals.
It was Meili and the Russian Ruskie
Meili had Doll's left arm coiled around her, presumably the former had carried the Russian bitch all the way here.
It was a good sign Meili was still alive, barely though seeing that there was a noticeably large portion of her belly side missing. Funny enough – In her opinion – Doll was grunting in agonizing pain from her visibly missing-a-chunk right shoulder and barely hanging by a few wires arm.
"Meili..." J weakly called out to her friend.
"H-Hey, I-I guess t-this is the rig-right building?" Meili smiled painfully to her as J helped her stand up to her feet, Doll who had an arm slung to Meili also stood up against her wishes to stay on the floor and just sleep.
"Get yourselves patched up, the repair drones are behind me." J pointed behind her.
Meili simply nodded and supported herself and Doll towards the Repair Drones. J turned to leave but halted on her steps, she faced Meili and called out to her.
"Meili, I'm going back there to help, can you.. Make sure my niece makes it out alive..?" J pleaded.
"Niece... Wait Luzi?" Meili questioned, she tilted her head and finally saw Luzi who was being aided by the Repair Drones.
"Shit.. Not her too." She grit angerly and turned to J.
"Don't worry, I got her." She reassured her.
J smiled in return, "Thanks." She closed the door and ran outside the building to help V in her fight against the Mole Eldritch.
She quickly ran towards the area where the fight had taken place, the moonlight still lighting up the area they were in, which was the entire block near the mall. She grimaced at the gigantic security breach above them, she was both grateful and worried about it, sure it allowed V to get here in time, but the implications of the fact they other Eldies might see and crawl inside, that's not to mention the fact it could probably fit a high-class through.
They needed to patch that hole after this, somehow , atleast.
J lowered her head and continued running towards the fight, V and the Eldritch had crossed a small distance from where they originally started fighting.
When J arrived, she was greeted by the sight of the Eldritch and V locked on a stalemate, she had both of her chainsaw hands pressed against the Eldritch's reinforced scaly arms, creating sparks of metal everywhere.
"V! It can become inviolable to all forms of damage for 6 seconds whenever its eyes glow!" J screamed as hard as she could, she wanted to jump in right off the bat, but given her condition she would just end up a deadweight
However, her warnings fell on deaf ears
V had a 'PureAnger.mp3' Printed across her visor as she let out a war cry, completely ignoring J.
Eventually the Eldritch had used its other pair of arms below the shoulder to grab V's chainsaws, forcefully stopping them before being crushed.
V grunted and pulled them away forcefully, ripping the chainsaws off her hands and flipped backwards, dodging the punch that would have hit her. J gaped at seeing V rip away what was technically her hands unphased.
V unfurled her wings and flew up, replacing her broken chainsaws for missile launchers and fired them.
The Eldritch stomped at the ground and jumped towards the slaughter of missiles and tanked them with ease.
V immediately swayed back and dived towards the Eldritch to meet it mid-air, exchanging her rockets for claws.
CLANG!
The sound of high-speed blades colliding with heavy scaled armor echoed throughout the area, as a huge wave of sparks briefly appeared.
V's claws both broke upon the destructive contact, leaving her weaponless again. The Eldritch tried to grab onto V's wings, she immediately hid them back and kicked its hand away.
Their short exchange in the air ended when they both landed back on the ground. Dust kicking back up again obscuring J's vision.
"Shit, V!" J cursed, fearing for V's safety, this particular Eldritch had a tendency to strike when you let your guard down. It wouldn't be pretty if her friend got hurt, a single direct hit from it was enough to nearly take her and Meili out of commission.
The smoke-ish cloud immediately cleared
When V bursted through the weeping clouds with her last sword, she swung forward aiming at the damnable abomination, to which it responded with a swing of its tail.
V lifted her left arm to block the tail, while her right handed sword came to its head.
J's optics widened, V was going to make a mistake trying to block that!
Parrying and Dodging is one thing, but blocking that thing's attacks called for a death wish especially with how strong it was, not only that.
It was nearly fast as V herself, maybe even faster she guessed.
"V! DON'T BLOCK IT-" However it was too late, V's sword reached Eldritch first, however all it did was scratch it as sparks flew as its eyes glinted.
V's emotionless optic narrowed, she brought her arm up to block the tail.
CCCRAACKKK!
If it had a mouth, the Eldritch would have smiled maliciously
V's eyes widened ever so slightly for a brief moment.
V grit her teeth painfully as the tail slammed full force onto her arm, which immediately broke and faced a direction it shouldn't.
'A Direct hit! Shit!' J cursed internally, it broke V's arm completely and no doubt also racked her insides as the tail persisted and hit her side. Victory was starting to look bleak for her, that was a direct hit.
If J, who was a Mark higher than V, and was clearly made to be more durable and stronger in every way nearly went down from a single hit from it, then, V who was less durable than her would no doubt be in a world of pain.
But then suddenly, V did something that threw J off.
V drew in a deep breath and yelled in anger. She stabbed her pegged legs onto the ground and resisted the blow, she hissed in pain and blew a breath, before exchanging her sword for her hands. She formed a fist and SLAMMED it onto the Eldritch's face.
BAM!
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The Eldritch shrieked in agony as V's face dug deep into its face, cracking and breaking it, V leaned forward and put all of her force in her arm, attempting to deal as much damage as she can in the short vulnerability of the Eldritch.
V roared a battle cry as she lifted Clawdreroff off its feet, dragging its head with her fist before finally hammering its trajectory to the ground, turning the ground below them into a web-cracked crater.
She continued the berserker special by unclenching her fist and grabbing its head, she opened her wings and flew forward, dragging it onto the floor as she rapidly flew faster.
The free kiss to the ground treatment by V ended when she spun around and threw the Eldritch, it's scaled face mangled and destroyed.
Clawdreroff pushed itself off the ground and looked at V with shock if it had a face that can make expressions.
J also gaped, she was ready to jump into V's rescue only to stand there flabbergasted. For the first fucking time, the Eldritch had finally received some form of damage from someone else that wasn't Uzi.
V looked at her injured arm and forcefully bent it back to its original place, allowing her to move it even if there was some unbearable pain stinging her.
But she didn't care, this thing took away one of her precious daughters.
There's no way in hell she was going to let it off.
She spit at the ground and stretched her arm while walking towards the Eldritch who was beginning to stand up.
"I don't have any more weapons, so I'll just simply break you apart with my fists." She mocked the Eldritch, she didn't know if it could understand what she was saying, nevertheless she mocked it anyway.
"Come on, piece of shit ." she held out her hand, giving it the 'Come at me.' gesture.
It looks like it understood well from its reaction, the Eldritch growled threateningly and slammed its fists on the ground.
"A slug fight?! SERIOUSLY V!? DON'T GET INTO A FIST FIGHT WITH THE CLEARLY SUPERIOR ENEMY!" J scolded at V's stupidity, the idea of fist fighting this eldritch while her arm was injured.
Sadly it all fell into deaf ears as V taunted the abomination again, ignoring J completely.
V and Clawdreroff deadlocked in a stare off for a few seconds.
Before both fighters sprung into action, meeting each other once more, both faced each other.
V threw her punch as hard and as fast as she could, the Eldritch blew its own attack towards her.
J's breath came to a hitch as time came to a slow for her, she watched how both inched towards one another, she knew damn well that even if V managed to reach it first, it would matter as it would simply enter it's invulnerable state once more.
The Eldritch on the other hand, would dominate V and crush her like a tin can if that punch landed directly on her face.
Her blades posed to come out of the irises of her Multi-weaponry arms, what is her friend thinking?!
No, it's obvious she wasn't thinking properly because of Luzi's supposed 'death'.
J prepared crouched and prepared to dash towards Clawdreroff.
True to J's observation, V ducked under the Eldritch's devastating scaled arm at the last second and managed to sneak just enough for her to get close to its face.
J dug her foot at this moment, she was about to jump towards them as fast as she could the moment V's attack failed.
Only for her to stop on her feet as her eyes widened.
Clawdreroff's visor threatened to glint, however V's fury filled fist found itself planted deep inside its head before it could even fully use its strange ability to become inviolable.
Before it could even stumble around or do anything. V stomped on the ground and threw another punch, just like before the strike worked and caused it to hurl in pain.
V grew a feral smile, cocking her other injured arm, uncaring of how painful it is to move it. All she cared about right now was killing this piece of shit.
Clawdreroff blindly threw a haymaker only for V to weave under it and deliver a punch to its side. The punch caused it to double down in pain, when it raised its head, it came face to face with V's firmly clenched hand.
It came into contact with its new friend named pain in the form of a fist and the strike cracked its visor. The Eldritch stammered away in pain, clutching its face releasing an agonized roar.
Before it could even recover V was onto it, she relentlessly pummeled it over and over, not giving it a chance to throw an attack of its own. Each hit purchased itself a dent across the Eldritch's body.
'Looks like it can't use that invulnerability when it's being staggered around, for someone who can be invincible it can't handle pain, ironic. ' V thought sadistically.
"RAH!" V landed a heavy punch in its face, violently whiplashing its head to the side.
She followed soon after with an uppercut, before landing the same previous heavy strike, oil and...blood? Strangely colored blood started to splatter around as V continuously persisted on her beatdown upon the Eldritch.
"What's wrong?! Can't even handle a few love taps?!" V chirped sadistically, she could feel her inner machinery and serves breaking down from her violent movements, she wasn't a brawler, she wasn't even made for hand to hand combat, yet here she is.
The Eldritch roared as it tried to get V off of it, V simply slapped away its attempt at a punch and found her oil and blood?(She wasn't sure if it was actually blood as the liquid substance had a green tinge to its coloring) Covered fists on its face again.
A huge piece of its visor and head splattered away like the shell of an egg, V coldly smiled and relented on her beatdown again.
"Never been a fan of slugfights, but this?"
V wound up her right arm, she dug her leg in front and twisted her form.
She performed a perfect punching form, her arm railing through its jaw.
"I'm certainly enjoying this." V said as the Eldritch's entire jaw came flying off, her voice laced with anger and venom, fury out of her daughter's demise.
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J stood in the sidelines flabbergasted.
'Un-fucking-believable .' J swore there must have been some fucking bullshit at play here, because V was ass pulling it somehow against the Eldritch.
She would have thought that V was somehow able to bypass its invulnerability for being able to land a decisive blow and bring damage to it, but as it turns out, she simply outpaced the Eldritch before it could even become invincible.
Whether she should be salty or glad, she wasn't sure. I mean it's obvious she's relieved that V is somehow winning but come on!
She and Meili alongside Doll had done next to no damage against the humanoid Eldritch, there were three of them against one for crying out loud.
And yet here was V, doing what was the equivalent of a 'Fight back' combo on the same guy that had nearly killed and assaulted her.
And hold on. Wasn't V supposed to be less durable than her?! She'd taken one hell of a blow to her side and didn't even pay attention to it.
No wait, she is.
J could see V biting down her teeth aggressively, so it wasn't that V wasn't feeling the pain, it's just that she's pushing through it, either out of stubbornness or Pure unadulterated anger.
But still! What kind of bullshit is this, V was arguably the fastest drone, sure, but speed does not equalize pure strength, even if V had somehow grown an obsession with being as fast as she can be.
Did V know about its weakness beforehand and actually heard her or was she just pummeling it out of rage.
It was like watching N go feral again, instead it's V this time around.
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Why?
Why was it losing?
WHY WAS IT LOSING TO THIS, FEMALE PREY!?
Another blow landed on its face causing it to stumble backwards, but before it could even completely back away another fist took the other's place.
It was born to be strong! Born to ravage and hunt down those who were weaker than it, they were simply food to it.
It had proved that it was strong, it took on three strangely combat-capable females and had come out victorious.
It was an alpha, an Alpha of its pack before the Purple haired female took them down.
Back when it had gone to seek out the strange familiar smell, it found itself breaking through a wall and coming face-to-face.. With a smaller purple prey?
The only reason it hadn't ripped the smaller purple one on sight was because something had caught its curiosity. The scent felt the same, but there was the same 'Murder Drone' scent to it.
A half-breed, it was the offspring of that terrifying purple-haired female.
Even if it did not have facial expressions, a malicious 'smile' overtook it, it seems that the Purple one had an offspring that was timid and weak...
So defenselessly weak, it bet it could even do anything it wanted to the small drone.
Anything .
However a painfully hot light brightened over everything, its 'instincts' told the Eldritch it would have died if it was directly hit by it, invincible or not.
So it dodged.
The small one was later on impaled by its tail after the beam had missed, it was annoyed that it couldn't even keep the offspring alive, it wanted to do a lot of things to her, to at least pleasure itself and avenge its pack's death by the smaller one's mother.
It wanted revenge.
But then everything fell apart when SHE arrived.
The Short-haired Murder drone suddenly appeared from the skies, The Eldritch could feel its intense anger , was this female somehow related to the Purple-haired's Offspring?
It didn't matter, all that mattered was that it had gotten revenge by kill-
...
Strangely, it found itself within the side of a building.
It briefly remembered itself being kicked away by the newly-arrived female, no matter, she will lose to it because it was an Alpha...
Or so it thought itself to be, but here it is now.
Punch after punch, The female furiously relented on her beatdown without letting it take a single breath, it was being dominated.
By THIS prey!?
It was supposed to be stronger than these.. 'Murder Drones.', superior in every way.
It had even adapted and grew more intelligent, hence its ability to think of words more clearly compared to when it had first arrived in this Outpost.
It... It needed to get out of here, it felt fear. For the longest time, it was not afraid of death due to its ability to become invulnerable, sure, there was that accident with the purple-haired one killing its fellow Eldritches.
But this white-haired woman was arguably more terrifying.
It wanted to get out of here.
It NEEDED to get out of here.
Finally making a decision, it stomped down on the ground creating web-like cracks around the earth, the white-haired monster in front of it staggered for a moment due to losing her proper footing.
Seeing its opportunity, it put its weight on its right arm and directed it towards the female's face.
Internally, it smiled.
It had won-
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V smiled ferally like a child who had finally gotten a chance to get what it wanted, even for an instant she made a giggling sound and jumped above the punch.
The apex of her pointed peg-legs grazing ever so slightly at the punch that would have hit her if she hadn't jumped, V then proceeded to hug the arm as hard as she could and dropped down her legs on its face, pushing herself off the Eldritch while pulling the arm with her.
"Hey.. You wouldn't mind if I disarmed you right?" She grinned darkly.
The Eldritch for once, showing fear, tried to get her off by slamming her into the ground with its arm, but V wasn't having it and used her wings to lock them both in place by stabbing the pointed blades to the ground.
The Eldritch flinched fearfully and brought its left arm punch V's currently exposed unprotected form as she held onto its right arm, forcefully pulling the arm with her while pushing her legs on its face.
V tightened her hold and pulled even harder, causing the Eldritch to miss its desperate attempt of escaping V's grapple, finally, the sound of scales crackling like an egg shell started to enter V's audio receptors.
'Finally' . She smiled ferally and stabbed her nanite tail onto its shoulder repeatedly.
Acidic Nanite slowly melted the shoulder where the arm she was grappling, Clawdreroff made an agonized growl, steam started bursting out of its mouth before releasing the same core shivering roar it had made back at the mall.
" R̸̡̗̓A̸̛͇̼̺͎̮͑̈͛͠A̵̬̰͕̐̀͝A̸͉͌Ā̶̲̰̤A̸̼͆̈́͊̋Ä̸͍́̈͒̈A̸̡̧̖̳͍͌͂͝A̶̛͙͐́̄̽À̷̱͍̗Ằ̵͉̹Ã̸̛̜̝͙̘Ā̷̢̘͈̻͝ͅA̵̻͝Ḫ̶̼̙̜͎̀́̏͘ " The extreme force caused wind to pick up around them, making gusts of gale that pushed back smaller lighter objects and debri around them.
V's entire body shook with pain from being painfully close to it when it had made the ear breaking roar, but instead of letting go, she held firmly and proceeded to use her wings, stabbing them on Clawdreroff's Right shoulder and pushed as hard as he could.
RIIIIP!
The arm she'd been clutching on like a life-line finally broke off from the Eldritch, successfully bisecting an arm off.
Clawdreroff gave off a pained cry of agony, clutching its stump of a right shoulder, it stumbled backwards before looking at V fearfully, who had landed gracefully on her legs, its gigantic arm on her hands like a newly-won trophy.
Despite having a sadistic feral smile, V was emotionless inside, all she's doing right now is small pleasures of revenge for her daughter. What would killing this bastard even do when her oldest daughter had died on her watch, she made a vow to be the best mother to her children, a promise to N to be there for their family before he died! If she can't even protect her oldest, what did that say to her younger daughters..?
Deep inside, she's trying her best not to tear up at the notion that Luzi just died in her arms.
If only she was faster to get here.. Would her daughter still be alive?
She was caught from her internal grievances when Clawdreroff started backing off and ran.
V was about to take pursuit when J, who had finally got fed up with standing around doing nothing on the sidelines blocked its way, both of her laser cannons which have finally come back online pointed at the Eldritch.
She fired them at max capacity, the Eldritch took the full brunt of it and was blown away towards V, causing it to stumble around in her general direction.
Finally feeling the need to end this, V dashed forward and exchanged her hands for hook claws,
Shaped like a sickle, both sharp to the edge.
She met the Eldritch half-way through and hooked her left to the side of its face, she then planted both of her legs on top of its shoulders while stabbing her other hook to the other side of its face(Think of a child piggy-backing on an adult, but this time the hands are replaced with literal sickle-hook claws)
V strained her arms and pulled violently, the sound of flesh and metal being pulled apart started to fill the area as V persisted.
Clawdreroff tried to claw her off to no success even with the use of its tail, V, finally feeling a cracking sound where she was stabbing the Eldritch, gave off one last pull.
The Eldritch reached its left arm out to the Underground's ceiling, as if reaching out for one last hope at survival.
V roared and pulled her Hooks apart, feeling the metal and flesh ripping apart.
The Eldritch gave out one last scream of agony
" R̸̡̗̓A̸̛͇̼̺͎̮͑̈͛͠A̵̬̰͕̐̀͝A̸͉͌Ā̶̲̰̤A̸̼͆̈́͊̋Ä̸͍́̈͒̈A̸̡̧̖̳͍͌͂͝A̶̛͙͐́̄̽À̷̱͍̗Ằ̵͉̹Ã̸̛̜̝͙̘Ā̷̢̘͈̻͝ͅA̵̻͝Ḫ̶̼̙̜͎̀́̏͘ "
For an instant, it saw the same memories that had begun to flood its head when it had entered this place.
Jon tried to thrash around as both a migraine and quite literally a head-splitting headache threatened to kill him..
Wait.. Jon?
Was that its name?
Amidst its current situation, everything came to a stop for its world.
They flashed and blinded its vision, forcefully making it remember everything and what it had been before.. Or rather, what HE used to be.
' Ah, that was my name, Jon."
...
'I used to be a worker, didn't i..? I.. I'm a monster, my wife, my daughter.. Everything that I've done... Dear god.. Everything is finally coming back'
...
'But at least.. I'm free, I'm finally free...'
Even if he shouldn't be able to see, he saw the reflection of V from hooks that were currently embedded to his face.
' You're that murder drone that fought in the war... I know you can't hear me but, I'm really sorry for your daughter.. And.. Thank you... '
He finally stopped resisting and thrashing around.
'My dear.. Nala, and my daughter.. Sheile... I'm.. Coming.'
Blissful relief overtook him before everything went black
His face was split in two as V pulled his head apart like Dorito-Chip, she let out a victorious roar while her wings spread apart in a show of dominance.
V jumped off from the massive body of the Eldritch, letting the lifeless body fall down.
J released a breath she didn't know she was holding, it was finally over. This goddamn thing finally died, even after the fight had ended she didn't let her guard down, she wasn't going to have a repeat of what happened to Luzi.
V landed with grace and hid away her wings, she released a tired sigh and her eyes drooped down, she stood still for a whole minute staring at the empty space..
J noticed her idle form and walked towards her friend while eyeing the dead corpse of the Eldritch.
She propped to reach a hand out to V, but before she could ask her, V fell down to her knees and started sobbing.
"M-My Luzi... My baby girl.." She broke down in tears as she sobbed painfully, she fell down slamming her fist onto the ground. "She's gone! My baby girl is gone!" she sobbed weakly.
Digital tears were currently flooding the edges of where eyes would be, she weeped in sadness as she set her head down to the ground.
She repeatedly hammered her arm to the ground, repeating the same thing that had always flooded her mind whenever she thought of N.
"Slow! I'm always too slow! Damn it, damn it, damn it, DAMN IT! "
She wailed, "Why am I like this! Why is it that every time I want to protect those who I love, I can't even be there for them!?"
J heard multiple footsteps coming their way and looked towards the source of it,
Her eyes relaxed a little bit as she saw who they were.
However V didn't seem to register anything at the moment.
"Always too slow! 10 Years and nothing changed! I couldn't even save my own daughter." V continued crying nonstop, she felt a tug on her shoulder
She looked at J with an uncharacteristically tearful face.
' Looks like being a mother really had changed her over the years, the trauma stayed too i guess.. ' J thought, finally pin-pointing V's obsession with being on time over the years, being not fast enough to save someone does that to you, i guess.
"J.." V weeped, tears still coming out of her digital eyes.
J smiled softly to her friend, ' She really loves her daughter's huh..? Related or not. '
She crouched next to V while drawing circles on her back, attempting to comfort her.
"Before you continue wailing around, why don't you look over there..?" She pointed to V's right.
V's tearful eyes widened.
In front of her was her daughter, her stomach patched by multiple bandages while being supported by Meili who had a crutch of her own, Ruther was next to Luzi, slinging her arm on his shoulder for support.. The JSD filed in a line and continued to surround the area.
Doll, who had an entire bandage wrapped around her shoulder, was behind Meili with her phone out – Who was probably recording V's currently tearful face. – No way in hell she's going to miss this, V being pissy and bitchy all the time was one thing, but seeing her this tearfaced? It was rude and cruel in a way but hey, they were still enemies in one way or another.
Oh and, Lizzy was also next to Doll with her own phone out – She needed blackmail material, what? – She was supporting Doll to stand up just like Meili was supporting Luzi.
"H-Hi mom.." Luzi said weakly, both out of joy and embarrassment, she'd never seen her step... No, not that... Her mom , like this before.
No words needed to be said, V jumped towards her daughter and hugged her tightly, caressing her hair, as if making sure she was real and not a cruel illusion.
By this time, Doll had hidden away her phone and crossed her arms behind them.
"Y-You're safe.. You're safe... You're safe.." V hugged her daughter, still stuttering at her words while sobbing.
"Yeah.. I'm.. safe mom, I'm happy you guys are too..." Luzi hugged her Mom back, smiling as V continued to cry happily.
V smiled in return.
' Thank god, she's safe.. ' The thought echoed within her mind, relief flooding her body.
She's safe.. She's safe... that's all that's important..
V happily cried, knowing at least, her promise with N – The same way J had made a promise with him, V and Uzi knew of that incident that happened between N and J. – of protecting their family.
Her younger daughters were probably safe back home too..
I kept it, N..
Our daughters are safe..
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Electricity crackled and danced everywhere, she didn't have time for this, she lowered her right sword while slowly closing and opening her hand on her newly welded and attached left arm thanks to the technology inside IDT (Intercommunicative Development Tower) which had the equipment that allowed for quick repairs, including reattaching severed arms.
She had to sneak in all the way in here, just for this quick repair.
While she was reattaching a brand new left-arm to her while biting down on a cloth – Adding back arms without proper preparations, hurt. Alot. – A bright violet light encompassed the Underground city, prompting Uzi to stop momentarily and look outside the building's glass walls.
She took a good minute to finish attaching her arm and promptly looked towards where it had originated from using her modified long-distance thermal binoculars.
Her eyes immediately widened at what she saw.
Luzi.
Impaled.
Daughter, hurt.
Uzi saw red, she immediately grabbed her bag and slung both of her Upgraded Disassembler Swords( Disassembly Drone swords that had been modified to have a grip and decreased in length and widened apart to fit in as dual short swords, idea by yours truly when Uzi was still with her family).
When she prepared to jump outside the building, a familiar crackling of electricity greeted her, nearly hitting her if she hadn't back-flipped away on one hand.
She landed back on her knees and met face to face with a very familiar Humanoid Eldritch.
The same Spider-eel she failed to kill.
She frowned.
Electrocosis.
She doesn't know how this thing is still alive after taking the full brunt of an explosion but she didn't care, her daughter needed her.
She needed to get there NOW.
But this bastard is blocking her way, spasms of electricity danced everywhere as Electrocosis growled at her, multiple limbs posed to strike her down, each cackling with electricity.
She just saw her oldest daughter get impaled, SHE DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT, she unsheathed her other sword out, she brought both blades together and dashed forward.
She may have been a terrible mother, but she was NOT letting her daughter DIE!
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