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{———————\{P.O.V}/————————} ~~~~~~~~~~~~Uzi~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
{———————\{P.O.V}/————————}
A thumping heartbeat, a burning feeling in her hands.
A pulsing black circle with a white edge hovering…..
It tried to grab her, seizing her wrist, mouth open.
So close……. If it swallowed its core again, it would be all over……
No, no, NO!-
Without thinking she jerked the core towards herself, and-
HOMPH-
Okay, the emojis in Cyn’s eyes were kinda funny-
Uzi forced herself to swallow the core, ignoring the pulses of pain her own sent out as soon as she did so.
She watched as Cyn collapsed, literally melting away.
And then she herself collapsed, dropping down to her knees, her core burning in such agony it felt molten hot.
She felt so numb……. Everything was so…… far away.
НЕ СПИТЕ! ДАЙТЕ ОТПОР!
[STAY AWAKE! FIGHT BACK!]
{She’s fading away……}
It felt like her systems were being attacked by themselves, struggling to remove the virus that had been intertwined with her body since she’d been born.
“UZI!”
She looked up, visor display glitching, purple, yellow, red.
N? N…….. he was running towards her…… V was there too…….
She was burning up…….. but she was also so cold…….
Her chest seized, the molten ball of pain that was her core going ice cold.
The floor underneath her gave way.
She tried to stretch out her wings, to fly.
But she fell.
!ERROR_SYSTEM_OVERLOAD!
UZI DOORMAN! Двоюродный брат!
[UZI DOORMAN! COUSIN!]
{oh no…….. her core……..}
Everything
Went
BLACK.
~~~~~~{Get Snuck Up On!}~~~~~~~~
!Системный сбой!
!System_Crash!
!Фатальная ошибка!
!Fatal_Error!
Хотите ли вы перезапустить систему [Да/Нет]?
Would you like to restart systems[Y/N]?
Failure to sele-
……хорошо, я вмешаюсь
[……fine, I will intervene]
АДМИН ПЕРЕЗАПИСАТЬ
!ADMIN_OVERWRITE!
!Да!
!Перезапись прошла успешно!
!Overwrite_successful!
Restarting_systems……..
System _restart_complete!
Drone_ID_UZI-10068780_booting_up!
~~~~~~{Get Revived, Idiot}~~~~~~~~
The surging pain throughout her whole entire body was gone……
Uzi surged upwards, coughing and hacking, oil dripping down from her maw.
Ughhhh…….. she felt like shit.
Wait, it worked! It worked, Cyn was gone!
Uzi quickly stood up, only to nearly collapse again, her systems immediately pulling up over a dozen warnings as soon as she tried to move.
Something about incomplete regeneration and a core override or something.
Still, Uzi forced herself to stand, she needed to find N and V, they probably thought she was dead, and while she couldn’t give two shits about V, she needed to let N know she was okay, it wasn’t about V in any way shape or form, shut up!-
“UZI!-“
She jerked her head up at the shout, and immediately ran over, accepting the tight hug as he spun her around, laughing softly a little at the end.
She did back off though when V slapped the back of N’s head and he let go.
“GET BACK!” V took one good look at Uzi, and aimed a gun at her, bristling.
Uzi slapped the gun away, only for V to re-aim it at her, before she pulled down N’s head, looking at herself in the reflection of his visor.
The gradient eyes were new, but not bad actually, kinda cool, even if she wished she could loose the yellow and pick a different color in its place-
“Uzi, is?-“ N tried, but Uzi cut him off “Oh hell yeah! I’m a Damaged OC now!-“
“It’s her-“ V grumbled in irritation, while N gleefully yelped “It’s you!” Before hugging Uzi again and spinning her around once more, even throwing her up into the air once or twice.
She maybe launched herself at V- the Disassembly Drones surprised yelp and bolt upright tail was worth it, as was the soft clicking chirp that V let out when Uzi started messing up her hair a little-
“Alright, get off of me!” V snapped, managing to throw Uzi off of her, thus freeing herself from having her hair messed up even more.
Uzi landed with an ‘oof’, sprawling out as she tried to process the impact, normally she wouldn’t have even sprawled out, she would’ve just landed on her feet like a cat, but her body was still feeling so sore and sluggish.
Functioning currently was hard, but she wasn’t about to mention that, not in front of V.
“UZI!-“ she had five seconds to process the desperate and utterly relieved shout before she was suddenly wrapped in a hug.
Normally Uzi would fight or try to wriggle free when seized, but her dad never really hugged her without her initiating it and- and she could feel him shaking……
“Don’t……. Just don’t do that again-……. I thought I lost you” Khan whispered, releasing her so she could actually recollect her bearings.
She could see Thad and Lizzy standing by the school bus, Thad having reclaimed his pipe weapon thingy, while Lizzy looked rather bored, perhaps because she had somehow managed to lose her phone.
Least they were both, alive- alive was the right word, neither was fully okay, Thad sported scrapes on his arms and Lizzy still had the gash around her neck from Camp 98.7.
And neither knew of Dolls death……. Uzi really didn’t want to be the one to tell them either.
A fucking Sentinel charged past, and Uzi yelped, immediately going to try to hit it or attack it, but it simply darted up to V and- nuzzled against her, clicking softly.
“So you survived then, huh?” V muttered, scratching under the mechanical raptors chin as it leaned against her.
“When did you tame one of those?!” Uzi yelped, gesturing at the Sentinel as she spoke.
“He saved my life down there for some reason, won’t leave me alone now-“ V huffed, attempting to push the raptor away, only for it- him to lean right back against her.
“Oh! You should name him V!” N said excitedly, earning an eyeroll from the other Disassembly Drone.
Uzi let their conversation fade into the background as she turned away, finally taking a chance to look around.
There were so many deep cracks in the ground, rending the soil and snow, exposing things hidden underneath, some of the cracks were probably deep enough to reach the tunnels of Outpost Three……
THE BUNKER!-
Uzi’s wings immediately snapped open, and she launched herself into the air, flapping hard as she tried to gain height.
One wrong twist of one wing sent her crashing right back down, pain flaring in every organic joint in her body.
The slam down against the ground was even worse than usual, warnings once again popping up, the same as before.
Her core was aching so badly, pulsing in pain, her whole chest feeling sore and bruised.
“Careful kid, careful” a voice whispered, before she was gently scooped up.
Uzi felt so distant, pain thrumming through her body in pulses, code overshadowing her vision as it wrote itself out across her HUD.
Glitching purple and yellow and occasionally red……
She couldn’t stay awake……..
Just…….. couldn’t………
Stay………
Awake…………
………..
{———————\{P.O.V}/————————} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~N~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
{———————\{P.O.V}/————————}
“Uzi!” N trilled in alarm, her visor display had gone dark, her whole body limp in the orange displayed drones arms as he lifted her up.
“She should be fine, seems like her systems simply overloaded, probably from the strain of whatever went down between her and the other one” the Worker Drone said, gently passing Uzi to Khan as he spoke.
Khan immediately moved to cradle his daughter, carefully holding her wings close to her body so they wouldn’t dangle as he did so, and slowly got onto the bus, presumably to lay Uzi down across the back seat so she could rest.
“What’s with the purple thing?” V asked, moving to stand beside N, raising an eyebrow at him as she spoke.
The Sentinel, which N had convinced V to name Sparky, also moved to stand beside him, peering at the Disassembler like he really wanted to attack but wouldn’t just yet.
“Just a system overload! She should be fine!” N answered, aiming for a reassuring tone, mostly for his own sake rather than V’s.
“Yeah, we both know better. Her venting was off, like her chest internals were fucked up, J used to do the same kind of wheezy venting whenever her core managed to have yet another malfunction” V snorted, her tone was mostly deadpan, but N thought he could pick up a hint of concern in it.
“Anyway, I’m going to scout the spire, make sure J didn’t return to it, you should get some sleep, I know how your narcolepsy is” V added, unfolding her wings from their slots and taking off.
N sighed softly, he had a feeling she was avoiding something, but it was none of his business, and she was right, his system was beginning to send him alerts about his low energy levels.
N climbed onto the bus and headed right for the back, where Uzi lay on the back seat, a jacket spread over her acting as a blanket
N crooned softly, and curled around her, spreading a wing over her so she was extra cozy, and wrapping his tail loosely around her wrist.
He let his systems slowly turn off, his venting easing and slowing as he drifted off.
N could feel the bus starting and moving, but the sounds of it moving were like white noise, just like the sound of the other drones also in the bus were.
He could hear Uzi’s core above it all, a soft pulsing beat, strangely weak and stuttering in places, but somehow also still strong as ever.
N shut off his optics at last, letting himself sleep and recover from the intensive fight against Cyn.
He never noticed the soft specks of red dotting Uzi’s core light.
As Doll frantically tried to keep her cousins core still running and working, even when it was so badly errored out and corroded from the strain of winning out against the Absolute Solvers control.
They say death was peaceful.
They lied-
This was going to be a very stressful time for one Russian ghost-