Synapses

At the pod, Command room

Uzi was sitting on a chair, in front of the monitors, typing on the keyboards. N was on her side, turned off, with a cable coming out of the main computer and conecting to his head. V was on her room, sleeping. Uzi typed some more things untill she took her hands off the keyboard and shaked them, her hands hurted a bit, she was alredy doing it for more than an hour and needed a break.

She got up from the chair and sat on the couch, looking to the celling, thinking on how she'll have to go to school today, because the month off she got from the hospital alredy ended. She had a good time here, even though the fact that disassembly drones need oil to live disturbed Uzi a bit, but nothing she couldn't handle. Uzi heard a sound of chains and looked to V's room, she then got up and walked to it.

Everytime V would try to escape N would enter her room and try to talk with her, but to no avail, he took her chains on the mouth off so she could speak, but she's always mean and ignores whatever he says. Sometimes, N walks out in such a bad mood that not even Uzi can cheer him. Uzi opened the door to see V trying to break the chains, but that only made her look stupid. Uzi gigled a bit and V looked at her.

"What're you laughing at metal pipe!?" Uzi stoped gigling and looked at V.

"Nothing, just liking the view" Uzi giggled a bit, pissing V off, she tried to run towards her, but got pushed back by her chains, falling to the ground with her back. She looked at Uzi with an angry look.

"Where's N, ditched him alredy?"

"And why would that matter to you?"

"SHUT UP, just tell me where he is!" Uzi stopped smilling.

"I'm giving some modifications on his programing, so NX doesn't appear as often as before" Uzi looked at V, who was confused.

"By 'NX' you mean his other personality?" Uzi nodded. V widened her eyes and got up. "WHAT?!" Uzi looked confused "Why? That's the only good thing on him!" Uzi widened her eyes.

"Wait, wait, wait, have you and the other bitch been telling N this?"

"Of course we have, he has to know the truth" Uzi was dumbfounded, she turned around and walked onto the command room. She didn't know those two kept saying that to him. Uzi looks to N and remembers when he was talking about his team and how they could be a bit mean, but weren't bad.

"Hey, come back here!" V screamed from her room, trying to stomp her foot on the ground. Uzi just closed her room's door and put a headfone she built and started to type on the keyboard again, trying to think of another thing, while V tried to realese herself from the chains.

Some time passed and V calmed down. Uzi didn't know if she had given up or goed to sleep, but she didn't care and continued working on N. She passed some time and decided to take a break, she got up and looked outside the pod to one of the entrances and noticed that the sun was falling. She sighed, remebering she had to go to school now, she then turned to N and took the cable off, she crouched and started him. His systems started to run and soon, he was running. His lights brighted a bit and he looked up.

"Hey Uzi, did anything happen while I was out?"

"No, are your programings running fine?" Uzi walked to the couch and sat on it, while N got up.

"Everything's fine, but I didn't feel any different" N said looking to his hands.

"You won't, the change isn't on you, but on NX, so you shouldn't feel anything different" Uzi lyed down on the couch to rest. N looked at her with a worried look.

"H-Hey, is everything okay, you look tired" N got a little closer to Uzi.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just that I have to go to school in some minutes" N giggled a bit with that, wich made Uzi look with an angry face at him, that made him nervous, but this interaction was stopped when thay heard the sound of chains moving. Both looked to V's room and N walked to it, but before he reached there Uzi spoke.

"N, answer me one thing before you go there" He looked at Uzi with a curious look, she got up and sat on the couch "Did your team tell you that NX was better than you?" N widened his eyes at this question, he looked away, to not show Uzi his desperate face, he had a sweat in his visor and a pained look, he was remembering the times his team said that.

He looked up to his room and saw a yellow X close to it, he heard the sound of his laughter, wich scared him and made N back up a bit. Uzi noticed and got up, calmly walking to him, trying to not startle him. N looked at Uzi and then saw a yellow X behind her, soon a grin appeared as well and it flunged itself at Uzi, N ran to her, but he wasn't fast enough and she got decapitated. N took Uzi's head before it fell, she was still alive, and when she saw him, she said.

"N-N it h-hurts so much" N started to cry.

"Please Uzi, don't die, don't die" Uzi smiled, her visor showing a purple danger sing.

"I at least died... to the o-original" Uzi's visor then turned black and N felt a presence behind him, he turned and he saw himself with a yellow X on his visor. NX smiled, he approached N and whispered to him.

"Just give up, you know who that body belongs to" NX started laughing and opened V's room, entering in the darkness of her room. N was on the ground shaking and crying untill he felt someone touching his shoulders and call him.

"N! N! What is happening?! Are you okay?!" He turned arround to see Uzi, perfectly fine, without a single scratch. She had tears forming on her visor and was visibly shaken by what was happening. N turned to her and hugged her, Uzi didn't know how to react, but returned the hug. After some time Uzi ended the hug and looked to N, he had sweat and tears on his visor.

"N, what happened? You suddently stopped and fell to the ground" N looked away, to his room again, but found nothing. Uzi was worried, she was still holding his shoulders, so she said "N, please, answer me, I want to help you"

"I-I'ts nothing really, just a bit sore from sitting down for more than 2 hours" N got up. Uzi looked at him with even more worry.

"N, I saw your face, you were clearly scared" N started walking to V's room, but was interrupted when Uzi caught his hand, forcing him to look at her, but he quickly looked away, shaking a bit. Uzi noticed this and released his hand.

"Sorry Uzi, can we talk later? You still have school and I..." N was clearly terrified and didn't want to say anything else. Uzi didn't like to see N like this, but decided to not force him.

"S-Sure, I'll come here when my school ends, bye" Uzi started to walk out of the pod, waving her hand. N didn't wave back, but instead looked at her, with worry and sadness, he then shook his head and turned to V's room.

He opened her door with fear, and when it was open, he saw nothing, only some oil stains, a recharge station and V, chained to the wall. She looked up with an angry, yet curious look. N walked close to her and sat in front of her, putting his arms in his legs, clear for V to see he didn't represent any harm. He looked at her with a curious eye.

"So... You had that again, huh?" N looked to his side, clearly not wanting to talk about this. V grined at this sight "You know... You should do what he said" N looked with wide eyes to her, and she looked deep in his "He's right after all, he is the original owner of this body" N started to shake and backed away a bit.

"Y-You d-don't know that" N said weakly, grabbing his legs, trying to protect himself. He peeked through his legs at V, she was looking straight at him with a wide smile, wich made him blush a little.

"Of course I know, I worked with him, did you forget?" N backed away more, hitting a wall, he tightened his grip on his legs and started to cry "Of course you don't remeber, you're not the original" V laughed at this. N got up and ran to his room, where he would throw himself to the ground and try to sleep, but everytime he closed his eyes he would hear him, talking to him, walking in the pod, talking to V, flirting with V, making out with her, laughing at him. N started to panic, but he had no one to help him, so he shut himself off, because his core was overheating.

Uzi arrived at the door to the colony, she opened it and saw no one, they were probably on they're break. She sighed in relief, she didn't want to talk to them or anyone, she then opened the other door and walked to her house, receiving some stares along the way. She arrived home, when she opened the door, she saw three letters in the ground she picked them, closed the door, and walked to her couch. She put the letters in a table in front of her, she picked one and saw that it was from the hospital, she opened it an read.

Uzi Doorman, we, from the hospital of the 9th colony, received the information that you used our resignement letter to escape the colony and do whatever you do out there. Through this letter, we say that we do not support this action, you should stay home, where it's safe, to recuperate without any risk, so please be more careful next time and hear our advises.
Ps. Hope you get better and nothing happens to you.
Ass. Doctor Ronald

Uzi just scoffed at this. She didn't care at all, she was alright when she escaped the colony but what made her feel something was that they only wished her to get better in a Ps, as if they only cared about their reputation, but whatever. She picked the next one, it had saliva on it, as if someone spit on it. She carefully opened it, trying to not touch the saliva.

YOU'RE LUCKY HE ISN'T DEAD BITCH
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND FREAK?
Be warned

The first one was in red, while the others were black, the first two were made as if in a rush, while the third one was very well made. Uzi looked at it, she knew it was from her classmates, only they would write that to her. She knew the first one was Lizzy, since she cared a lot about Thad, but Uzi didn't really care, Lizzy wouldn't do anything to her. The Second one was probably Rebecca, she's the one who calls her Freak, this one worried her, since Rebecca was the daughter of a very rich and importante family, but she wouldn't do anything to her, since she is the daughter of the most importante family, not only in this colony, but around this galaxy, but the worry did not ware off. Uzi didn't know who wrote the third, but was very well made, so this made her very worried, a classmate of her who could actually write and she didn't know about, that means that either someone new entered, she forgot someone or someone was simply hiding this.

Uzi decided to forget this and took the third letter, she saw that in the front was written something "from Thad", she was curious. Thad was strange, he didn't dislike her or anything, he actually looked like he wanted to be friends with her, wich she was glad about, but didn't understand why, specially because their interests are the complete opposite, so she wanted to see what was inside. Uzi opened it and saw a lot of school work, notes about the classes and a note to her, she took the one addressed with her name an read it.

Hey Uzi, Thad here. I know you're out hunting or with the disassembly, but that doesn't matter, here is what you lost and need to catch up.

Uzi smiled at this. This was the first time someone made something like this to her, without her asking. She had tears in her eyes, but quickly cleaned them and put the letter in the table. She took the others and throwed them in the trash, but the note from her classmates got stuck on the top of the trash, only having the "be warned" out, this sight freaked Uzi and put her in thought again, while she walked to the trash her thought were interrupted when she took the paper and it vanished from her hand. She was startled and backed away, looking at the trash, then to her hand, with the only piece of the paper left there, "be warned". Uzi throwed the piece of paper in the trash and ran to her room.

It was dark and cold, wich only made things worse for her, she started to see somethings in the dark. She couldn't figure out what it was, but looked like a worker drone. She was snapped out of her thought when her alarm went off, she turned the lights on and saw nothing in her room, she then picked the alarm and saw that she only had 1 hour before school. Uzi then started to prepare for school, trying not to think on whatever was happening, again. She changed her clothes to another pair that looked exactly the same she has been wearing for two weeks, she took these clothes and put them on the cleaning machine. She then opened her fridge to find it mostly empty, she had to buy more things, since she took most of the food to the pod. She made some scrapped metal and hot oil to keep her awake. After finishing, she prepared her backpack, with school stuff, and looked at the mirror, she saw she still had 30 minutes left, she then put the backpack on her back and left her house. Before she closed the door, she looked one more time to the empty and cold house, where some strange things were happening now, when she was closing the door, she saw something move inside, she instantly opened the door again and saw nothing, shaking, she closed the door, locked it, and started walking in a fast pace to her school.

In the way there, she notices that she's receiving a lot of stares, she usually doesn't care, because she's the daughter of Khan, so receiving stares, be it curious or angry ones, is normal, but now, after the events of the invasion and the news that she escaped the colony to go somewhere, the stares were way more intense, some were curious others were angry, more than normal. Usually when she looked at then they would stop and look elsewhere, but now, even if she does look at them, they just continue staring back, as if she's just a statue. This really unsetled Uzi, but she continued nonetheless. Soon she arrived at the school. A giant beige structure with white pillars, based on how human universities were constructed.

Inside the school, the stares did not stop, but now, they were closer to her. Some would look away when she looked at then or got too close, but some just kept staring at her, wich made Uzi shrink a bit, but she continued walking, on a faster pace now. Soon she arrived at her class, she opened the door and went inside. There were few people there, but they all looked at her, but soon stopped and started to talk to themselves, some giggled. Uzi sat on her chair, when she looked to the sides he saw that Thad was right on her side. She swore to not have seen him there, but nonetheless, he looked at her and waved his hand.

"Hey Uzi, how you doing?" Uzi started sweating and gave him a nervous smile.

"I-I'm fine haha" Uzi was very nervous, Thad looked at her, then got his table a bit closer. Uzi looked at him confused, but he leaned to her and asked.

"What did you do to the disassembly?" Thad whispered to her, looking to the sides, making sure nobody listened to them. Uzi raised one eyebrown and giggled a bit. Thad looked at her confused "What's wrong?" Uzi giggled a bit more, but stopped and talked.

"Nothings wrong, and about the disassembly" Uzi leaned closer to Thad and wispered right in his ear "I befriended one and the other is being held captive" Thad straghtened his pose and looked at her with wide eyes, he then put his elbows on his desk and his hands on his eyebrowns, thinking on what Uzi said. He was going to say something, untill they heard the door open and a pink haired girl with pink eyes and a dark purple haired girl with red eyes came through the door.

"Hey Thaad" The pink haired ran to Thad and hugged him. Thad smiled and hugged her back.

"Hey, how you doing sis?" The girl looked up and was going to say something with a smile, but she stopped and dropped her smile when she saw Uzi on Thad's side. She then looked at Uzi with an angry face and walked to her.

"What are YOU doing her?" She slammed her hand on Uzi's desk. Thad looked at her with a dissapointed look.

"C'mon Lizzy we talked about this" Thad spoke with a serious tone. Lizzy looked back at him with a worried look.

"But-" Before she could speak Thad spoke.

"No buts, Lizzy, you promised me" Lizzy looked at Thad with a sad look, then to Uzi with an angrier look and walked away.

"C'mon Doll, let's go to our places" Lizzy walked past Doll, who followed her while looking at Uzi. Uzi found her strange and now thought that maybe Doll was the one who wrote the "Be warned" on the note. This thought made her feel more unconfortable, since she didn't know anything about Doll. Her thought were interrupted by the teacher entering the class.

The first class of the day was math. Most drones found it boring, some even slept in the class, the teacher woke some up, but others were able to hide it. Uzi found the class boring, but not boring enough to sleep on it. The Second class was about mechanics, this one Uzi found interesting, because she loves this subject, but most found it so boring that only Thad, Uzi, Doll and Emily were awake by the end. When the school bell rang, everyone got up and got out of class, it was recess.

Uzi got out of class quickly and walked to the cafeteria, she was the first to arrive there, so she took her lunch and got out. When she was walking in the corridor, everyone stared or glanced at her, but Uzi was too focused on thinking, but she was cut short when she bumped into something, when she looked back she saw two male worker walking together. The ones he bumped into had blue hair and cyan eyes, she wore a normal outfit, while the other had a spiked red hair with grey eyes and wore a punk outfit.

"Hey, look were you walk" The one with normal clothes talked.

"S-Sorry" Uzi gave him an ankward smile and ran away. The two workers looked at each other and just shrugged it and continued walking. Uzi ran to a door close to the bathroom, when she opened it, she saw an empty room with only one table and chair in the back. She got inside and closed the door behind her. Uzi felt comfortable in this empty place, so she walked to the table and sat on it, eating her food.

Uzi started thinking on her life, as she always did here, but was interrupted by the sound of water, she looked up and remembered that this room was connected to the bathroom through some vents, and that's why this room was locked. She then started to hear what was on the other side. She heard two female voices, ones he could easily distinguish, it was Lizzy, so by extend the ones he can't understand should be Doll.

"If it goes like last time, then it should be fine in a week or two, but I think it will be quicker this time" Lizzy said, washing her hands.

"Ну, лучше надейся, ходят слухи, что оттуда выходят странные вещи."
(Well, better hope so, the rumors say strange things come out of there)

"Those aren't just rumors, haven't you heard about that leg?" There was silence for some seconds untill Lizzy spoke again "Oh my God, you should follow the news, a disassembly leg came out of the tunnels yesterday" Uzi heard a gasp and she widened her eyes "Well, let's stop talking about this, it's giving me shivers, so what will you wear on prom?" Uzi then heard the sound of the door opening.

Uzi was shocked, she haven't heard about the tunnels in 2 years. She was always facinated by it, a place were all the information is, but no one can enter, yet every time one of the entrances break, some strange creature comes out of there. There could have something about her mother there, finally a clue to where she should go, but she would need some help, since the tunnel clearly is dangerous, but she has someone in mind.

Uzi heard the bell ring, so she got out of the room and walked to the class, encountering the workers she bumped earlier, they looked at her, but she tried ignoring them and quickly passed by them. She got in class and sat on Thad's side, while Lizzy looked at her with some anger, but Uzi ignored. Thad was unconfortable with how his sister was acting and was going to apologize, but was interrupted by the teacher entering the class. Tha subjects were languages and history, wich Uzi found extremely boring, since she alredy knew what was being teached, so she just slept the whole class.

She woke up when the bell for the second recess rang, so she quickly walked to the cafeteria, took her food and walked back to the room, but when she was going to enter the room, someone grabbed her shoulder. Uzi fliched and turned back, seeing a adult worker with black hair, orange eyes, wearing a school counselor outfit. She was the school counselor.

"Young girl, you should not be entering this room and you know it" She said with a disapointed face, then grabbed her by the wrist and brought her to the principal's office, where she saw the principal, he has long red hair, pink eyes and wore a black suit. "Principal, this young girl was entering the room next to the bathroom" The principal looked at Uzi.

"Now, tell me, why?" Uzi was surprised about how fast he acted, not even saying hi, but she said.

"I-I just wanted to get away from commotion, I didn't do anything in the room, just ate my food" Uzi said. The principal looks at her and sighed.

"Okay, you're gonna be expelled today for your actions, but be warned to never do that again" Uzi nodded and got out of the room, going to her class, it was mostly empty, so she took her things and walked out of the school.

Out of it, most workers were working, and she started to process what happened. Did they really expell her just for that? And that quickly? How did they even know that, no one really cared about it, since she has being doing this for a long time, so why stop her now? Uzi was impressed and shocked at this, but glad nonetheless. She arrived home, looking the entire house to see if there was anything strange there, finding nothing, she put her backpack away, took her gun, put her special clothes and walked to the door.

Uzi reached the door of the colony and when she opened it, she saw 4 workers playing a game of poker, they looked at her and stopped playing, they had worried faces.

"Uzi, what are you doing here?" One of the workers asked. Uzi was very nervous now.

"U-Um, I-I'm here for, for a..." Uzi looked to her sides, clearly unconfortable, whens she was gonna say something, she was interrupted.

"Uzi, we can't let you out, not after what happened last time, and you escaped the colony without our knoledge" One of them said in a serious tone. Uzi looked at him, not knowing what to talk, but the same worker spoke again "And shouldn't you be on school?" He asked, tilting his head. Uzi looked to her side.

"I-I was expeled, so I got nothing to do, a-and there's no problem out there anymore, the disassembly are gone" The four workers looked at each other, before one noded his head and one spoke.

"We haven't received any movement from disassembly in an entire month, and you were out there, so I guess it's safe" One of the workers got up and walked to the pannel, contacting someone, he turned to Uzi and spoke "We're going to let you go, but never lower your guard, you never know" The other door opened and Uzi sprinted by them and waved her hand without looking back, then the door closed behind her.

Uzi sighed when the door closed, this was more than she wanted to deal, but she started to think and walk to the tower. Soon she found herself at the tower and entered through a hole that she and N made, she looked up and saw the pod with the rope she and N put there for her to get down, she then screamed.

"NNNNNNNN!!!" She soon heard the sound of heavy metal on the pod, then something fly out of there, it was N, he landed close to her, he had a confused face.

"Uzi, shouldn't you be on school?"

"Got expeled" Uzi rolled her eyes, while N had a worried face.

"Why?"

"Let's go to the pod first okay, I don't like being here" Uzi said while looking to her sides and seeing the dead workers, N noticed this and took her and flew to the pod. There, she walked to V, who was sleeping, then she walked back and sat on the couch with N on her side.

"So?" N said, catching Uzi's attention, she sighed.

"They just found out where I spended my recess and since the place was prohibited they expeled me" Uzi didn't really care about this, and N soon didn't too.

"Really?" N asked with a disapointed face.

"Yes" Uzi looked to him, he then just leaned back in the couch.

"So what do you want to do, continue on my programing?" Uzi then remembered why she came here, turning to N with a smile, he looked at her with confusion, yet curious.

"No, but I came here because I have somewhere to go, and I need you to go with me"

"Sweet, when and where" N had a smile, it was the first time someone asked him to go somewhere with them.

"We are going to the tunnels, tomorrow" Uzi was clearly excited about this, but N raised an eyebrown.

"Tunnels?"

"Yeah? Don't you know about the tunnels?" N shook his head in denial, this shocked Uzi, but she just cleared her throat and said "The tunnels are a structure underneath the colony were all information of it and the other colonies is maintained" N was curious on this structure.

"Wow, it looks important, are you sure they will let me in?" This made Uzi's grin widen.

"They won't, that's why we're gonna invade it" N was now worried and Uzi got up in the couch "You see, no one can enter the tunnels, but sometimes the barricades holding it break and they are open for a while, we will enter there and see what's inside, and try to look for something related to my mom" Uzi was jumping with excitement at this, but N wasn't sure this plan of hers was gonna work, but he was happy to see her so excited about something, and he wanted to take a look at the tunnels.

"Okay, okay, we can see this better tomorrow, how about we do something now" N had a smile in his face and Uzi looked at him a bit disapointed, but with a smile.

"Well, how about we-" Uzi was interrupted by the sound of chains in V's room. She sighed in annoyance, N got up and walked to V's room, Uzi decided to follow him inside, V wasn't trying to escape, she only had a bored face, N thought this was strange, but didn't care, so he walked close to her and sat in front of her, Uzi stayed on the other side of the door, hearing everything.

"What's the problem V?"

"I'm locked here. Can't you at least get some of this chains out, I haven't moved in a month" V was angry, but not screaming. N felt guilty.

"L-Look, sorry, bu-" N was interrupted by V screaming at him.

"SORRY?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS TO BE LOCKED HERE, NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE, BEING TREATED LIKE AN ANIMAL?! I CAN'T EVEN MOVE MY ARM OR LEGS, THEY HAVE BEEN STUCK LIKE THIS FOR ONE MONTH" V stopped screaming, N had backed and had his hands in front of his visor, he soon looked at V, she was fuming, when N looked at her, she had even more hatred in her eyes "YOU STUPID WORTHLESS TRASH, J WAS RIGHT ABOUT YOU, YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE OF WASTE OF MATERIAL, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE" N backed away even more, hitting the wall, there he curled up and started to cry. V saw this and smiled, but didn't stop "HE IS WAY BETTER THEN YOU, YOUR JUST A MISTAKE, LIKE-" before V could finish, Uzi opened the door and throwed a sharp rock in her visor, breaking and turning V off.

"I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry, I wasn't supposed to be here, I know it, I know it, Sorry, Sorry" Uzi looked to N, he was crying on the ground holding his legs, whispering to himself. Uzi ran to him, wich startled N, making him bak away, Uzi quickly slowed her pace and slowly walked to him, sitting on his side. Uzi didn't know what to do, but had to try something.

"N... N" Uzi turned to N and took one of his hands, making him look at her "N, it's not true, everything she said is not true. You're not useless or a waste, you are importante, you matter" N kept crying, but hugged Uzi, now, crying on her shoulder, she patted his back and spoke in a soft tone "You matter to me" and let him continue. Some time after, V was still turned off, N stopped crying and looked at Uzi, who had a smile on her face.

"T-Thanks *Sniffs* S-Sorry for making you deal with-" Before he could finish, Uzi hugged him tight and spoke.

"Don't apologize, you shouldn't apologize for that" N was happy and teared up from happiness, but whiped them. Uzi looked at him and said "How about we go to the couch and watch something" N nodded and both of them walked out of V's room, they sat on the couch and began to watch some random videos that Uzi had dowloaded.

They did this for the rest of the day, both laughed, were embaressed, but most importantly, both enjoyed that day. Soon it was day, N decided to go sleep, and so did Uzi, they slept hugging each other with smiles on their faces.

It was afternoon when Uzi woke up, she tried moving, but had a hard time doing so, whens she looked arround, she saw N hugging her with a smile, she was happy with this sight, but wanted to get up, so unfortunaly, she would have to wake him up, and so she did. She struggled to move, but her little movement woke N up, as he jumped to his feet, looking arround in worry. Uzi looked at this and got worried about him, what would be the reason for him to act such way so early in the morning, but she brushed it off.

"Calm down N, it was just me" Uzi was half awake, but got up and took N's arm, she put him on the couch and she sat on the chair and started thinking. N was curious on what she was doing.

"What are you thinking about?" N said with his head tilted to the side. Uzi stopped and looked at him with a serious face.

"I'm thinking about the invasion we're gonna make today" N started to think, he then remembered.

"Oh, I had forgotten" N chuckled a bit and Uzi sighed, was he really a good company to go to the tunnels? That didn't matter, it had to be him, who else would it be? Going alone was dangerous and he is a Disassembly Drone, so she should be fine, he looked stupid, but wasn't that stupid. She hoped.

"Okay, hear me out, we are going to enter the colony around 19:00 hours, since they change the workers at that time, so we will pass through the door and head to the entrance to tunnels without being seen, but the entrance is going to be guarded, so, got any ideas that don't involve killing" Uzi looked at N, N was surprised she wanted to hear what he had to say, but was very happy.

"We Disassembly Drones have na EMP blast, I could use that to turn the workers off without killing them" N said happily, his tail moving a lot. Uzi saw this and chuckled a bit, but was surprised that Disassembly Drones had such a weapon, this was important information that she didn't have.

"Okay, that's awesome, you will use the EMP and then we get in, we'll try to find anything that's related to my mother or my father, but before we do that, we take a look in the place, to see how it's structured and if there's anything dangerous there, understood?" N nodded, happy that Uzi liked his idea and praised it.

Now that they had the plan on mind, all they had to do was wait for the correct time. Both of them were excited and couldn't hold themselves, but N heard the sounds of chains moving, remembering what happened yesterday, he looked a bit sad, but decided to go there with some oil, so he flew outside of the pod, Uzi knew what he was doing and was alredy accustomed with this.

N flew to a mini tower of corpses, the size of a bus, that he made, it was nothing compared to what V and J did, but was something, he took the oil in one of the drones and put it into a cantine, he then flew back and walked to V's room. V was trying to escape this time, but stopped when N came in, she saw the cantine of oil and started to acompany his movement. N leaned towards her and started to wave the oil, this was a signal, he wanted her to open her mouth for him to pour the oil. V didn't like this, it was a humiliattion, but she had no other choice, so she opened her mouth and let him pour it. N was blushing at this sight, but wasn't shaking, so when the cantine was empty, V tried to speak with him, but he just got out of the room, not speaking a single word with her. This bothered V, but she decided to not do anything for now.

N came out of V's room and looked at Uzi, ready to go out, she looked at him and nodded, so he took her in his arms and flew out of the pod, straight to the doors. They quickly arrived there, N put Uzi down and she opened the door. They were met with an empty table, they walked past it, but N looked at it and saw a game of poker that was still there. They also got inside the colony and quickly walked to somewhere they wouldn't be seen.

They hid behind an abandoned building, there Uzi looked around to see if anyone was close, but she saw no one, they were either inside or working, so they continued with caution, but as quickly as they could. They passed by the school and N could hear that it was running, he was curious, so decided to ask.

"H-Hey Uzi" N whispered to Uzi, who turned to him, looking around them, trying to find something, this made N chuckle a bit "Don't worry, no one saw us, but I wanted to ask" Uzi looked at him with an annoyed look, but saw him pointing at the school "Why is your school at night?" Uzi was still annoyed, but sighed and continued walking, but explaining to him.

"Since you, disassembly, hunt at night, the workers built a super reforced bunker under the school and changed the school time, so, if any of you broke inside, we would be safe" N was surprised by this, he was always told that after the first attempt of turning all workers off, when the rebellions started, failed, the only affect it had was making workers dumb, but this was actually smart. Uzi caught him thinking and said "Not all of us are dumb, some were able to revert the affect" Uzi was annoyed, she hates being considered dumb. Soon they saw themselves close to a rather empty area, N was going to ask, but Uzi said first "The workers don't wanna be close to the tunnels, so we'll have to run untill we reach those rocks over there okay?" Uzi said, but when she looked at N, the only thing she saw was the buildings getting far, when she noticed, N had picked her and ran to the rocks, in no time they were there. Uzi took some time to recuperate, so N got worried.

"A-Are you okay Uzi?" N was worried that he may have hurt her, but she just looked at him and gave him a thumbs up.

"G-Good work, j-just warn me next time" She looked in front of her, she saw some workers in the entrance to the tunnels, N looked there and got his EMP gun out. Uzi looked at it and was amazed, she never saw one, at least not one with so much power. N aimed it at the middle of all the 3 workers there, and shot, firing a ball of eletricity, bearly visible, but when it hit the ground it spreaded to the workers, turning them off. Uzi was impressed, that wasn't a normal EMP, but decided to not waste time asking N, she could do it later, so she ran with N on her side to the entrance.

Inside they saw a room with a table in the middle, some blue prints and coofee, there were lockers on the side with some boards and a tunnel, the size of a worker at the opposite side of the entrance, but what caught their eyes was who was in the table. Thad sat in one of the chairs, between them and the tunnel, he was looking straight at them.

"I knew you'd come here" Thad was looking at Uzi "You can't enter this place, you know that" Thad was serious, he then looked at the disassembly "And you, good to see that you didn't kill any workers out there, but I can't allow you to be here" Thad then got up, but Uzi prepared her gun and pointed it at Thad, he didn't have any emotion on his visor, he just looked at her and said "You're really gonna shot me?" Uzi's grip on her tightened.

"Look Thad, you're my friend, I don't wanna shot you, but this is the only clue I have about my mother, so I can't let it pass" Thad still didn't display any emotions, he looked at N, then at Uzi.

"Is he safe?" Thad pointed to N with his head. N had a nervous smile and waved at him, Uzi sighed.

"Yes, I made sure of it"

"Then I'm going with both of you down there" Thad's response, shocked Uzi, but she didn't show it, she just lowered her gun. N looked excited about this, a new friend of Uzi he could Interact with "To acess the tunnels we have to pass through here" Thad was pointing at the tunnel behind him "But, before we go, be warned that when we reach there, you'll have to hold onto yourself as much as you can, okay?" Uzi and N didn't understand what he meant by that, so Uzi asked.

"What do you mean, hold onto ourselves?" Thad looked at Uzi without any expression on his face. Uzi didn't want to say, but his lack of emotion scared her a little.

"The tunnels are a stream of information, if you aren't careful, the information in your body will join the stream and you'll basically die" Uzi widened her eyes, she didn't know this was possible. N was shocked to receive this information, pulling the information of someone's body was something crazy to even think of.

"W-What?! H-Ho-" Uzi was speecheless, she was considering what she could do now. She knew information passed through the tunnel, but not like this. Continuing with this was way more dangerous then she thought, but she was snapped out of her thought when she heard.

"Don't worry, it may sound horrible, but it's actually pretty easy to survive the stream, just be careful" Thad said without any emotion on his voice and face. Uzi was scred of how he could be so emotioneless in a situation like that, but decided to ignore, she then collected herself and shook her head, she had passed through worse than this, risking her life was what she promised to find her mother, so she couldn't turn away now.

"Okay let's go" Uzi said with confidence and a smile, this made N, who was worried about her, calm down. Thad walked to the tunnel with Uzi and N following him. The tunnel was the size of adult workers, so Thad and Uzi didn't have trouble going through then, but N had to crouch down. They walked a bit with no one saying a single word, but N broke the silence.

"Soo, Thad, right?" Thad hummed in response. Uzi was going to ignore whatever N was going to say, so she could focus on planning, but she started to pay attention when she heard "Why were you here and how do you know so much about this place?" There was silence as they continued walking.

"As I said, I knew Uzi was coming here, so I had to check on her and I'm just interested in this kind of location" Thad didn't look back and just continued. N looked satisfied with the answer, but Uzi was puzzled, why did he want to check on me? This was strange for her, but before she could ask him anything, he said "We're here, the next step is the stream, so be careful"

In front of Thad was a pitch black passage and when he treversed it, he disappeared, this was very strange, but they couldn't back away now, so Uzi walked with a lot of caution. When she stepped on the other side, she felt as if she was being pushed to the left, so she tried to stand where she was, she was able to fixate herself in the ground, so she opened her eyes, revealing an empty blue horizon, that seemed to not have an end, sometimes, some white lines could be seen passing by her in an instant, she could feel a stream of white and fluffy liquid passing by her foot, then another white line passed by her, she then leaned to it and was going to put her hand where it had passed.

"Don't, if you put your hand there you're information will be taken out of your body" Uzi was startled by the voice, wich made her bearly lose balance, but she quickly retrieved it and looked behind her. Thad was there looking at her with no emotion in his eyes, she then looked to her side and she saw N, who had just walked in, he didn't seen to have any trouble balancing himself, he was just smilling and looking at the tunnel in awe at that.

"T-This is incredible, ho-how is this possible?!" N was very surprised, but amazed at this. Uzi looked at him, he was a bit childish, but she understood why, this place was something completely diferente from what she has ever seen and never thought the tunnels would look like this.

"I don't know how this place was built or how it is this way, these informations are long gone, but it is a very beatiful place indeed, but we shouldn't sit here, it's better if we just look around as fast as possible" Uzi and N nodded, but before they could walk, N asked.

"So, where exactly do we go now? We can follow the stream or go against it"

"Thad, you seem to know a lot about this place, do you know if there's a beggining to this?" Uzi asked.

"No, the tunnels go through every colony in this word and loops itself, and it's best if we follow the stream, going against it may cause troubles we don't wanna face" Thad said with no emotion, wich made both, N and Uzi, have an uneasy feeling, but they ignored it and nodded, beggining to follow the stream.

No one spoke a word, they were too focused on their surrounding, except Thad, who was just walking, looking at the path foward. As they were walking, Uzi and N noticed that they had decended a bit, but when they looked foward, they saw that the stream was going up some stairs, in an unatural way, as if gravity was reversed. Uzi was shocked and N was amazed, but Thad just kept walking, as if it was nothing.

"H-Hey, stop, what is this?" Said Uzi while pointing to the stream going upwards, Thad looked at her and then to the stream.

"Oh, this, it's just a thing that the tunnels does, we have tried to research why, but never found anything"

"We?" Uzi didn't understand why Thad said we, but he was acting strange. Thad widened his eyes when he noticed he let that escape, he was worried that Uzi was going to understand him.

"I participated in some expeditions here, you know, my Father works here" Thad explained himself, still with wide eyes, but his voice was just as emotionless as before. The answer seemed to work, so he just walked while N and Uzi followed him.

They soon found a door on their right, wich made N and Uzi wonder what it was, since it didn't look like there had walls arround them. Thad walked to it and opened, revealing a little room with a table and three chairs in it, some cards on the table, the cards had dust on them, no one visited this place in a long time.

"What is this?" N asked.

"This was a recess room, where workers could take braks in safe places" Thad replied.

"Ooooh" N was amazed at this, they really had thought of everything when building this place. Uzi then widened her eyes, she quickly jumped back, away from both of them, took her gun from her back and pointed at Thad.

"You stay where you are, N come to my side, NOW" N was startled and quickly obeyed her, jumping to her side and looking at Thad, that didn't have any emotions on his face.

"U-Uzi, what ar-" N was interrupted by Uzi's scream.

"SHUT UP N, now answer me Thad, how did you come here with your Father if the tunnels were closed before we were born?" N flinched away from Uzi when she screamed at him, he had a sad and scared face. Thad then spoke.

"You should take care of your friend over there first, you don't wanna lose him, do you?" Thad pointed at N, who was lightly shivering and backing away from Uzi, she noticed this and quickly realised what she had done.

"O-Oh, s-sorry N, I didn't mean to-" Before she could finish she looked to Thad, making sure he didn't move, then she heard the sound of something falling on soft material, she looked to the side and saw N on the ground, she quickly put her gun on her back and ran to him and lifted him, bringing him to the room. Thad followed behind.

Uzi was checking N, to see if any of his info was taken, but fortunaly, he was alright, she acted fast enough. She was snapped out of her thought when she heard the sound of a door closing, loking back, she saw Thad closing the door, taking her gun again, she pointed to Thad, who noticed this and put his hands on the air, but still had no emotions on his face.

"Answer me!" Thad sighed.

"My dad took me here in breakthroughs, and sometimes we sneaked in" Thad said with a weird and forced smile, looking away. Uzi didn't believe in it, but Thad hadn't done anything for now, but she had a bigger problem now. She turned to N and forced him to start. Soon N was booted, loking to the sides, trying to recognized where he was, he saw Uzi and quickly hugged her. Uzi was shocked, but didn't hesitate to hug him back, he then looked to Thad and gave him a smile, while Thad responded with a thumbs up. They stayed like that for some time, but when they separeted, Uzi was quick to talk.

"Look N, I'm Sorry for what I said, I... I didn't mean it" Uzi took N's coat and put her head on it. N just brushed her hair, while laughing a bit.

"Don't worry Uzi, I overreacted, so I should-" Before he could finish, Uzi gave him a glare, wich made him shut up, so he just nervously laughed and got up "Sooo, should we continue?"

"Oh, Yeah, sure" Uzi said, but when she looked back, she saw Thad opening the door, she goed behind N and took her gun, locking her sight on Thad, in case he does anything suspscious. They continued walking, but found nothing, wich made Thad say.

"There's something wrong, we should have encountered more rest rooms by now" This comment made N and Uzi shiver, if Thad, who knew the place better them they did, was feeling something was wrong, than that meant they were in a bad situation "There's something there, let's check" Thad said while pointing foward, N and Uzi could see the marking of a giant door.

The three got close to it and started to inspect it. None dared to open the door, but it opened by itself while they were checking it. This caught Uzi and N off guard, wich made them scream, but Thad didn't even seem to shiver with the sudden movement.

"I don't remeber this being here" Thad had a finger on his chin "This place might have something about your mother Uzi" Thad looked at Uzi, who was terrified.

"Do you really think I'm going to enter that place?! Not in a million years!" Uzi was holding tight in N's coat, hiding behind him. N was really scared, shaking a bit, but seeing that Uzi was counting on him, made him adjust his posture and stop shaking, but he was still visibly scared.

"Well, you alredy tried your luck in the tunnels, a place that everyone fears, and said that you'd do anything to find your mother. Well, this is the place" Thad said still with his emotioneless voice and face. Uzi thinked on what he said and sighed, she then released N's coat and walked in front of him.

"N, are you sure you want to go?" Uzi looked over her shoulder to N, with a serious face and tone, wich made N smile.

"Of course, I'm going to be by your side, no matter what" This made Uzi smile and feel confident. She then looked at Thad.

"Let's go" Uzi said before walking inside the door. N entered, then Thad, all they saw was a giant grey corridor, but before they continued, when Thad was walking through the door, it closed, cutting him in half, he dropped on the ground, but he didn't scream, his face didn't even change. Uzi and N looked back, startled by the sound and they were shocked to see only half of Thad, bleeding on the ground. Uzi and N ran to him, but they couldn't do anything and started to panic.

"W-What do we do?!" Uzi asked to N, but he didn't have anything in mind, but they stopped when they heard.

"Don't worry, I'm going to be fine just go, I can hear something here" Thad said with a normal voice, like nothing happened.

"W-What, n-no we can-" Before N finished, Uzi took him and ran to the corridor "W-Wait Uzi, we can't leave him there!" Uzi continued to run, but spoke.

"We can't do anything, and he said something was here, we have to get out, fast" Uzi continued to run, holding N's arm, while N was thinking, untill he started to run as fast as Uzi was, he didn't want to leave her behind. He seemed hesitant, but continued running fowards, untill the corridor they were in divided in two, they stopped and looked at each other, Uzi flinched her head to the right and N nodded, so they continued on the right path. These choices were getting more and more frequent, as well as bigger, since now they had 5 paths to choose, but both quickly continued.

They were walking, both thinking this place was extremely strange, but nothing was happening, untill something caught N's attention, he looked around and Uzi noticing that N was acting strange, did the same, as they did that, both heard the sound of a dozen of footsteps very far away. They started to quickly get away from the sound, but the footsteps were quickly getting closer to them, this made Uzi and N scared, so they both looked at each other and nodded, as they did that, both started running, as did the footsteps, that were louder and faster, so both continued together, but the steps were closer and closer, at that moment they came in a 2 paths choice, N ran to the right, but Uzi ran to the left, but they didn't notice and kept running, assuming the other was behind them.

Uzi stopped, she didn't hear any footssteps anymore, so she leaned her back in the wall and rested a bit, trying to regain her energy, but she didn't take much time, she didn't want to risk being found, so when she had enough energy to walk again, she looked around, looking for N, but didn't find him. Uzi panicked, she thought of going back, but she stopped when she heard faint footsteps on the distance, wich made Uzi, quietly, but quickly, walk in the other direction, she wanted N to be safe, he might be a dummy, but he could defend himself, right?

Uzi walked and walked, the footsteps stopped, but she didn't want to stop, so she kept walking. The grey corridors with a ceiling so high that she couldn't see it, the persistent darkness, making it difficult to see more than 10 meters. Uzi started to hear something, not footsteps, but a music, a music she recognized, she started walking to the direction it came from, soon, the walking turned into a sprint, she wanted to see who was singing this song. The song was louder and louder, untill, she turned a corner and saw a big room that had four entrances, in the middle there was a table so white it seemed to Shine in this grey labyrinth, there was three chair, but two were occupied. One had a male worker drone, but Uzi couldn't see anything about him, he was completely in the dark, the only thing Uzi could see was his silhouette, in the other side of the table sat a female worker drone, she had a purple jacket and black shorts, her hair has a dark purple colour and her eyes are a light purple. Uzi knew who she was.

"M-Mom?" Uzi was shaking, she is exactly as she remeber. She started to tear up as her mother looked at her and smiled.

"Look who finally appeared! Come here Uzi, take your seat, me and your father have something to talk with you" Her mother said while pointing atthe other drone in the table, who had his arms crossed, and then to the empty chair on the side of the table. Uzi shakingly walked towards them, she wanted to cry, but had to know what happened to her. Uzi didn't like her father, but was happy that he was there, since this way she could talk to him about what she feels. Uzi sat on the chair, and then her mother looked at her with a warm smile.

"I know you have a lot of questions, but let me talk first okay?!" Uzi nodded and her mother took her hand, she felt the touch, wich made Uzi relieved it wasn't another dream "Before I say anything, I have to tell you, I didn't leave because of you or your father" This made Uzi feel relief, as if a burden was taken out of her "And I'm so sorry I left you and your father, but I had something important to do" Uzi was now curious, what was so important she had to leave her husband and daughter for more than 10 years? But before she could speak again, Khan did.

"Oh, please Nori, let's just tell her, we can't keep her in the dark like this" Khan had a bit of aggressiveness on his voice, wich made Nori a bit angry.

"Look at your tone when you talk to me, and I don't know what you're talking about, I was about to tell her the truth" Nori was clearly annoyed. Khan groaned in response and got up, still covered by shadows.

"You weren't, we can't keep lying to her face, we need to tell her" This time, Nori got up, slamming the table. Uzi wasscared, she just found her parentes and they were fighting, because of her, she teared up and yelled.

"TELL ME WHAT!?" Both parentes looked at her. Nori then looked back at Khan with a very angry face, but Khan ignored.

"You ARE the problem Uzi" This shocked her, she didn't understand what he said at first, but then, the thought that she had burried a long time ago came back, her mother didn't want her, she was an accident. She started to cry, she hugged her leg. Nori was very angry and screamed.

"KHAN! YOU CAN'T JUST TELL HER THAT" Khan turned to her with a straight face.

"Sorry, but it's best for her, we can't lie forever"

"OH MY GOD, YOU'RE A HORRIBLE FATHER!"

"I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ONE!"

"I DON'T CARE, YOU ARE ONE, SO START ACTING LIKE ONE!" Khan and Nori were furious, untill Khan took a wrench from somewhere and swinged it at Nori, hitting her in the head. Uzi looked in shock, Nori wasn't dead, but was hurt, she didn't know what to do.

"SHUT UP WOMAN, I'M NOT GONNA TAKE RESPONSABILITY FOR WHAT I DIDN'T WANT, AND YOU SHOULDN'T TOO. SHE'S A MISTAKE, WE SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER WHEN SHE WAS BORN!" Nori was too weak to scream, but tried anyway.

"Look at what you're saying in front of her, even if we didn't want her and probably shoud have killed her, we didn't, so we have to face the consequences!" Uzi was in even more shock, she couldn't even sob now, she could only cry, and it hurt to do it. Uzi felt horrible, she didn't know what to do, she couldn't do anything,'just a mistake' was what ringed in her head. Her parentes continued to argue, but everything Uzi could think of is, 'my fault', she wanted this to end, to be a dream, she wants to wake up and hug N, so he can confort her. Uzi then stopped thinking, she had forgotten N, remembering what she said to him "You matter to me", she couldn't leave him behind. That's when she looked up and saw something, Nori was up again, no injury in her head, this made Uzi widen her eyes, she was in danger.

N was still running, he noticed that he and Uzi had parted ways, but couldn't focus on that right now, the steps were getting closer and closer. N still had a lot of energy, but this couldn't continue for long, so he decided to try something. He transformed his hand in a launcher and fired 3 rockets, the steps dodged it by going in the walls and even the ceiliing, the same that N couldn't see. This filled N with fear, whatever he was dealing with here, was clearly not normal. He continued running, trying to think of something, but that's when he heard a familiar laugh, he looked back and saw that V was running to him with an X on her visor. N was surprised, what was V doing here? How did she escape? What had she done? But most importante, why was she chasing him? N didn't stop running, but he couldn't get his head out of the idea that she wanted to kill him for good for locking her up.

The chase continued, but something caught N's attention, V didn't catch him yet, she was a speed focused drone and he was a strength focused drone, she should be massively faster than him, but still, this could be one of her games, to let her pray escape, so she feels the thrill of the chase, even if she has to limit herself. N didn't want to play this game, so he decided to stop and face her head on, he couldn't die, Uzi needed his help, and he needed hers. Before he could stop and turn around, he heard a heavy metal sound, it was unusual, yet familiar to N, he looked back and saw himself with an X on his visor. N didn't thought of anything, his mind went blank, he didn't understand what was happening, he knew who that was, but how could He be here? That's impossible, unless, she helped him. N felt a huge pain in his chest, one that he had alredy felt a lot of times, but now was even worse, seeing them laughing together, at him, made him feel something, not only sadness, but something that he never felt before, anger.

N cleched his teeths, turned his hand into a sniper and in a quick movement turned around and shot both of them, this movement shocked them, V was able to dodge, but NX was too slow, fortunely for him V pushed him out of the way, bearly getting hit. This made N even more sad, she never done that, even for J, this made his anger vanish, everything that was left was his tears, he shouldn't be crying for her, he knew that, but still, he couldn't stop. Suddently he felt a sharp pain in his stomach, he was shot, he didn't look up to see who shot him, he didn't care anymore, this followed by a rocket in his face, sending him flying to the ground. He could get up and fight, but why, everything was done, they were perfect for each other, he would never win this, he just hoped that Uzi would find a way out and survive, she didn't deserve to die here, in a place like this, alone, like him.

V quickly slashed his chest, while NX pinned him in the ground. N closed his eyes, not wanting to see them anymore, but he could still hear, they laughed and laughed, they were having so much fun. N felt every slash in his body, none were fatal, but they hurt. Suddently, they stopped, N didn't open his eyes, but wondered if they were tired of him alredy, but that's when he heard a moan, it was V, they were kissing and making out in front of his body. N teared up and decided to just turn off, and so he did. Before he completely shut off, he heard the sound of static, but he didn't care enough to understand it.

Uzi tried to run away from her parentes, but when she turned around, she saw them and her classmates blocking the exits. That's when she heard a sound coming from above her, she looked up and saw something moving in the darkness, she couldn't guess what it was, it moved in such a strange way, as if it was going left and right at the same time. The sound became clearer to Uzi, it was the footsteps she heard before, she was going to face now whatever it was. Uzi was looking upwards, with a scared face, but she felt something moving on her side, she quickly looked to it and saw a giant centipede body, this scared Uzi, she never heard of centipedes in the colony, let alone the tunnels, she was in great danger, she could only hope N or someone would find her and be able to help in this situation, but at the same time, she knew it was a hopeless dream, she was going to die, without accomplishing anything, not fiding out anything about her mother, not talking to her father and not helping N and staying by his side. Uzi, then, heard the noise of switches being turned on, she looked in front of her and saw something that she never would've guessed.

"Hello, long time no see, huh?" Said J, who was standing in front of Uzi, with no damage in her body, waving at her with a smile on her face. Uzi was shocked, she thought she had killed J, she was scared of what J would do to her. Uzi started to slowly step back, looking to her sides, trying to find a way out, but she couldn't see anything, nor anything to use against J, that's when Uzi remembered her gun, she brought it with her, when she tried to take her gun, she found nothing. Uzi's eyes hollowed when she saw on J's side a tentacle with sharp stinger holding her gun "Looking for this?" J said with a laugh in the end. Uzi started to panic, she had no way of defending herself, everything she could do was hope that N would find her.

"W-What do you w-want!?" Uzi tried to say with confidence, but failed, he voice shaked, it was clear she was scared.

"Oh, you don't need to worry, I just wanna talk a little" J had a smile on her face that Uzi could never trust, but that was the perfect opportunity to buy time.

"W-What do you want to t-talk about?" Uzi was nervous and afraid, looking to her sides at all times, shaking a bit.

"I just wanted to ask you, do you know anything about your father?" J's smile desapeared, she had a serious face now, looking directly at Uzi, who was confused.

"W-Why do you want to know about my Father?"

"You don't need to know that, just tell me what do you know about him"

"W-Well, I don't know much but, he's the creator of Daals and runs this colony" J groaned at this response.

"This I alredy know, I want to know more, what else do you have?" J asked a bit angry.

"I-I don't know anything more" J groaned and looked to the ground.

"Of course you wouldn't" J whispered, shaking her head in disappointment, but Uzi was able hear it.

"Do you know anything more about him?" J looked at her with an annoyed face, then she smiled again.

"Uzi, do you know who you're talking to?" Uzi was confused, she didn't know what was happening, she hoped it was all a dream, but it all looked too real.

"J-J?" J laughed.

"No, no, no, I'm not J, she had potential, but wasted that by diying to someone like you, literally" J started to walk closer to Uzi, while she started to back away "I am something much, much greater than any machine could be" J disappeared, leaving a confused Uzi, but as she looked around, she saw that the exits that were blocked by drones, were now blocked by walls a of a flesh like structure. Uzi heard a sound coming from above, she looked to the origin of the sound and saw a giant centipede with J's, jawless, head in it, its visor broken with some tentacles dropping from the jaw. Across it's body it had legs in each segment, these legs had stinger below them. Going up the spine of this monster, spikes came out of it's vertebras. Uzi didn't know what to do, this was beyond what she knew and even understood.

"You are as useless to me as a human is to the universe, so goodbye, thing" Eldritch J said with no emotion on its voice, the spikes in the back started to split in the middle, revealing it to actually be two tentacles, between them there was a strange liquid. The tentacles flew towards Uzi, but Uzi was able to bearly dodge, a bit of liquid sprayed on Uzi and she felt an immense pain, her metal skin started to melt as if it was nothing. The pain was unbearable for Uzi, she rolled in the ground, hoping the liquid would get out of her, she tried taking it off with her hand, but it only made the liquid spread more, it was stuck on her now, she couldn't do anything about it. Eldritch J simply watched as Uzi squirmed in the ground and screamed as much as she could, it was not enjoying it, but it wasn't neither.

Uzi was nearly losing her councioness, she was going to die here, but she felt something in her hand, she couldn't see anything, but she could feel it. She put her hand above her chest and felt the liquid being destroyed, atom by atom, she was relieved the liquid was gone, but she still felt a lot of pain, it didn't take much more time for her to fall unconscious.

Eldritch J hovered over Uzi unconscious body, analysing it, it noticed that the liquid had been destroyed, but it didn't understand how, it should be impossible for these machines to be able to destroy that. Eldritch J was now scared of Uzi, so it decided to simply kill her now that she was knocked out, so it got the tentacles ready and shot them at Uzi, but before it reached her, the tentacles were cut by a yellow laser. Eldritch J retreated and looked to where the laser came from, the wall of flesh had been destroyed by brute force, something that Eldritch J deemed impossible, but from it emerged N, with an X on his visor.

NX looked up and saw the creature, he didn't understand what that was, but it was strange enough to make him feel threatened, so, by instinct, he got ready and jumped on the creature with his claws out, ready to kill it.

Eldritch J retreated even more, it knew who he was, it was not good to face him, too chaotic to predict and too strong to face, so the best action would be to leave for now, quickly Eldritch J made it's way to the ceiling and started to escape, but the only thing it heard was the sound of a sonic boom and an explosion in the end of it's body, he had jumped with enough force to break the barrier of sound and cutted 1/10th of it's body. Eldritch J started to run as fast as it could, while releasing every single tentacle it had, and sending them to NX, in an attempt to either kill him or occupy him.

NX saw the body falling to the ground, when he looked to the rest he noticed it was trying to escape, he wouldn't let it end so soon, he started to chase it at his maximun speed. He noticed some tentacles were heading for him, but he didn't stop, he just continued to fly towards them, when he met with them, he started dodge and cut each one of them.

Eldritch J could feel the tentacles being cut, but it didn't hurt, but it made it scared, he didn't even stop, he was still going as fast as before. It didn't have anything more to try, not even the liquid was enough to destroy him, so it decided to use one last trick.

Nx was still flying towards the head, cutting or damaging every part of the creatures body, he could feel something on his skin, but just shrugged it off, he would worry about it later, that's when he saw something, two figures flying towards him, they were V and J.

"STOP RIGHT THERE YOU FREAK!' J shouted with V taking her blades out and laughing, but NX didn't stop, he just smiled and laughed. He flew towards J and punched her head so hard the hologram broke, the wall of flesh was completely shattered in pieces and unusable. NX didn't look at V and just continued. V flew towards him, catching up quickly.

"You know, we could stop this nonsense and just kill some workers and have some fun, right?~" V said in a seductive tone while winking at him. NX didn't look at her, instead just pointed a gun and shot her in the head, the hologram failed and turned off, revealing a small wall of flesh. This little wall came flying towards NX, but he dodged and grabbed it, smashing it with his hands. He looked foward and saw more walls coming at his way. He dodged most, but had to puch some, not much problem to him, after he had passed through them, he shot a laser at what was holding the walls up, they fell down, breaking the walls around that place with a loud bang.

Eldritch J had no more options, it would have to face him to survive. It felt him quickly flying to it's head, slashing and cutting avery bit of it's body, that's when it saw him, he was covered in oil and blood, laughing maniacly. Eldritch J in a deseperate attempt tried to hold him with it's feets, but the stinger couldn't even dent his body and broke when entered in contact with it.

NX retracted his right claw and brought his normal hand, with it he punched the creature in the face, breaking the visor and nearly going through the head. The impact sent the creature flying to a wall and breaking it. NX flew to the body, but when he reached there he only found the jawless head of J, with a massive crater in the middle, in the ground, that's when he heard something trying to move in the debris, he walked to it and got the debris off whatever was making the sound, it was the rest of the creature squirming, when the creature noticed it was free, it quickly got up and whiped NX, sending him back, the creature then started to quickly fly back from where they came from.

NX was disoriented with the attack, but got up and noticed that the creature was gone, he inhanced his hearing system and heard it flying somewhere, so he quickly jumped foward, creating another sonic boom and started to chase the creature once again.

Eldritch heard the sound of the sonic boom, it knew he wasn't gone for long and would find it, but it had to find her first, she was the only way it could get out of this alive. It continued flying as fast as it could, it then saw the room where she was, and there was her, still unconscious in the ground, it flew towards her, but before it could reach her, it felt something grabbing the end of it's body and pulling it. Eldritch looked back and saw NX pulling it back towards him, it tried to get away from his grip, but it was useless, he far too strong for any kind of escape.

NX made a final pull, strong enough to pull the entire body of the creature. NX brought his claws and pierced the "head" of the creature, he then started Slash the rest of the corpse, making sure it was dead. When he ended, there was no body left, only a lake of oil and blood.

Uzi felt something close to her, so with her instincts, she woke up, she couldn't see anything, she was still recovering, so she just laid down, not doing anything. Some time passed and now she could comprehend what was happening, she sat where she was and looked foward. He saw a lake of oil and blood, standing in the middle was someone familiar, she couldn't see who it was, but she had a guess.

"N-N?" Uzi said softly, she didn't want to startle whoever it was. The drone heard her and turned their head, that's when she realised it was N, but not the one she knew, a large yellow X was on his visor and he had a large grin in his face. She didn't know what to do, she had to reboot him, but how? Last time she used her gun, that's when she remembered, the gun was somewhere close. She looked around the room and found it in the middle of the lake close to NX, he noticed her glare to something and looked at it, noticing something that looked like a gun in the lake.

NX walked to it and crouched down. Uzi started to panic, if he destroyed it, she would certainly die. He picked it up and remembered a little bit of some time in the past that he saw something like this. Uzi saw him inspecting the gun and wanted to do something, but couldn't move, she was too afraid he would hear her moving and kill her, she had to think on how to get out of this situation.

NX recognized this was a very powerful gun, one that he didn't have access to, so he decided to mimic it, with his other hand he tried to recreate the gun model, wich wasn't hard, but when he tried to mimic the energy generator, he couldn't handle the power and his hands exploded, sending him into a reboot state.

Uzi was thinking on how she could get out of this situation, when she heard something exploding, she looked in front of her and saw NX without his hands and in a reboot state. She looked at it and sighed in relief, but that's when all that had happen today hit her, all the pain, all the tiredness, all the memories. She started to hyperventilate, but was able to calm down and get up, she then tried to leave this place as fast as she could, she couldn't spend anymore time here. Fortunely, she got the path right and left the labyrinth, not looking back. Walking in the tunnels was a hard task, she was limping and had a hard time keeping herself awake, but was able to make it. Outside the workers were waking up, Uzi quickly got past them before they noticed her, She got inside her home and collapsed in her bed.

N came back from rebooting, to see he was in a completely diferente place, there was no V and NX anywhere, but there was a lake of oil and blood beneath him. His eyes hollowed, he knew what had happened, He had come out. He looked around, but saw nothing, in the lake, he caught sight of something, he picked it up and saw it was Uzi's gun, this made him worried, her gun was here, but she was not. N, even though was feeling tired and with pain in his entire body, put her gun on his back and flew through the labyrinth, trying to find any trace of Uzi, but he didn't see anything. The pain was starting to get to him, he would have to stop searching and sleep a little, he could continue tomorrow, if she was alive she could escape, and if she was dead... Better not think about it.

N tried to find the exit, but it took some time, the moment he got in the tunnels, he felt his being being pulled to his left, he couldn't move and fell on the stream. He was too tired and hurt to get up, but he couldn't die here, he had to survive, for Uzi. With this thought he gained enough force to stand up, he quickly walked to a rest room and rested a bit, there he sat down, feeling a little strange, as if something was missing, but he shrugged it off, regaining a bit of his strength, he walked to the entrance of the tunnels. There he heard a sound he didn't want to hear, the workers were alredy awake, he wouldn't be able to sneak past them, so he released his wings and flew as fast as he could. He knew this would scare the entire colony and security would be doubled, but that's what he could do now.

He flew to the spiral, it was almost day, but he reached it before the sun rised. He entered the pod and quickly goed to his room, before he could sleep he heard a sound bellow, it was in V's room, but he didn't want to deal with her now, so he just laid down on his recharge station and slept.

Somewhere else

A worker, stting on a chair, received a message. He opened it and read.

"Sir, we saw a Disassembly Drone coming out of the tunnels" He simply sipped his coffee and responded with.

"Kill everything inside the tunnels and max out the security" He then looked back, to another drone who was there. He pointed fom him to come closer. The drone had green eyes and leaned closer to the others mouth and he whipered. "Keep her safe, at all costs" He then waved his hand, dismissing the other.

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