Things had been different ever since their trip from Camp 98.7. Though admittedly that would've been an understatement for Uzi, in fact she was much more inclined to think that things were fucking weird now. She turned into a monstrous Disassembly Drone, which she didn't even think was possible given how demonic those things already were. Still though, she definitely would've wiped out her entire class had it not been for the two disassembly drones that she called friends. It was odd how their circumstances had changed in the past few weeks, from attempting to kill the Disassembly Drones, to trying to kill humanity, and now figuring out how to stop a monster that was somehow way worse than those two things combined.
Uzi had hoped that with those things in mind, the next thing that came wouldn't be so bad. However, her confidence was shattered once a knock on her door finally came, "Hey Uzi? It's me, N! Mr. Uzi wasn't around so I just let myself in! On an unrelated note, there's a hole in your door that I may or may not have licked." The cheery voice of serial designation N, rang out causing Uzi to freeze in place. It was the first time she had ever invited anyone over to her place, and it just had to be the one drone that had been on her mind ever since her body started to do weird things. Another knock came, "Hey? Are you there? Dang it, I knew I should've just followed you home," Uzi's optics widened as she snapped out of her thoughts and promptly opened the door, "Don't just follow people home! What are you? Some kind of dog?!" Her outburst was met with a nervous chuckle from N, "Well, I did always like Golden Retrievers." A statement that made a ton of sense in hindsight for Uzi.
"So, are you going to let me in? Or are we going out?" N asked, as Uzi readied herself. This was it; this was the first time she was going to let someone see her room, it wasn't weird that she was this nervous about it, curse those anime romcoms she watched! She needed to do this! "We're staying in," she said with confidence, "I need to figure out how to make my badass wings and tail come out again, and you're the only one that I know that won't make fun of me while doing it. So will you help me?" She anxiously waited for N to respond, and he was delighted that his friend had asked him for help, "Of course I will! I like doing anything with you!" He took her arms and shook them affirmatively, "I'm always ready to lend a hand!" Uzi was surprised by the sudden contact, and slapped his hands away. She turned her head away to hide the blush that was building up on her facial screen, "Whatever! Just get in already!" And pulled N into her room.
N had never been invited into a friend's room before, though granted his two coworkers didn't have any rooms in the landing pod for him to be invited into. Still, he knew that J and V would have never invited him into theirs if they had one. Uzi's room was nice, well not like there was much competition given that the last room he went into was laced with an endless string of drone bodies that disturbed a Disassembly Drone like him. He needed to be careful, he knew that this was a big step when it came to being friends, so he took in the sights of Uzi's room. And it was almost like he imagined it.
The girl's room was littered with signs, papers, and crazy drawings that were linked together with red strings which N was tempted to touch. He smiled as he saw some of his own drawings on it too, also those red strings were really distracting him. But gosh darn it! He couldn't let himself play around with red strings again, the last time he did, J and V really gave it to him. He had to be on his best behavior for his best friend, Uzi! So, he moved on and inspected other parts of the room. He saw that the room was also lined with neon purple flames, "Ooooh, mood lighting, so cool…or is it hot in this case?" He jokingly said, he looked over to the side and saw a drawer labeled, 'Cute pics of baby cows :3.' Before he could pull it open, he was stopped by Uzi's hand,"Are you done looking around or are you just going to keep creeping in my room?"
"Right! Sorry," N looked downcast at disappointing his friend. Uzi sighed in resignation, "It's fine, this place must be weird to you, right?" N shook his head in protest, "What?! No way! This room is…uh…fire! It's really cool! Er…I mean, well fire can't exactly be cool…" His explanation was interrupted as Uzi began to giggle, "Okay, I get it. It's your first time being invited in someone's room, right?" N sheepishly nodded, as Uzi spoke, "It's fine, it's my first time inviting someone too," N smiled at Uzi's attempt at comforting him.
Seeing that N was fine, Uzi moved to her bed and patted the space next to her beckoning him to sit down, which he did happily. Uzi decided to ask him the question that's been bugging her, "So, how do you make your wings come out?" N scratched the back of his head, "Well, I don't exactly do it, I just…do it? You know?" Uzi did not know, as N's advice only served to frustrate her, "What exactly does that mean?" N began to get nervous, but decided that talking to her would just complicate things, and so he bent over as metallic appendages ejected from his back forming his wings.
Uzi shuffled over to the side in order to give N's wings more space, "And what was that supposed to do?" N gave an anxious smile, "Well, I figured that if I showed you how I do it, maybe you'd be able to do it too?" Uzi groaned, "I've seen you do that way too many times, I've tried doing it like you do but I just can't figure it out!" In her frustration, Uzi's left eye began to display a three pronged-symbol of the Absolute Solver. "Uzi? Are you okay?" N asked concerningly, as he placed his hand on the smaller drone's shoulders. Uzi pulled away standing up from her bed and covering her glitching eye, "I'm fine! Don't look at me!" N was not convinced and followed suit, he turned Uzi around and saw that she was quivering, frightened by what was happening to her again. N brushed Uzi's hand away and saw the symbol that was adorned on her screen, "Uzi…what's really going on here?" He asked worryingly.
Uzi looked down with a pained expression on her face, "I can't tell you." N wasn't dissuaded and pressed on, "Why not?" Uzi clenched her fist turning her back on N, "Because I…I can't." N still wasn't discouraged, "I think you can, but you just don't want to. I want to help you, Uzi, so please." Uzi was conflicted, she trusted him, and he trusted her, so why couldn't she just tell him? And so, she turned to N again, "Because, I don't want to scare people! I don't want to eat them! I don't…I don't want to hurt you."
"Uzi…" N expressed his concern reaching out to Uzi, but his hands were smacked away by an appendage from behind Uzi "No, don't!" Uzi crossed her arms, "I don't need your concern!"
"No, Uzi- "N was cut off, by a frustrated shout from Uzi, "What?!" N raised his finger and pointed out behind her, "Your tail! Your wings! They came out!" Uzi's optics widened as she looked behind her and saw that N was right, her wings and tail had come out! "Holy shit! I…uh…forget all about that repressed stuff!" Uzi waved her hands in front of N's face hoping to make him ignore everything that she just said. N grabbed her hands and put them down, "Uzi…" Uzi turned her face away, not wanting to hear his disappointment, "…Sure, when you turned into a weird bat-like thing, and started eating people, it freaked me out too," Uzi winced at the mention of that but allowed N to continue, "But, I told you we'd deal with it together. And besides…" N picked up her tail and began to puppeteer it, with an accent, "You wouldn't be able ta'h 'urt 'ittle ol' me." Uzi giggled at his antics and pulled her tail away from the murder drone, "Shut up! And my tail doesn't talk like that!" She picked up her own tail and play with it as well, "I am a sophisticated lady, so don't just yank me around, eh?" The two began to laugh at themselves.
"Thanks, N. Just don't go telling people about what we talked about, okay?" Uzi said, punching N's shoulder to emphasize her point, "Maybe I can figure out how to teleport now." N chuckled, "Consider it repressed, though we may want to wait until you master the whole shape shifting part, speaking of which, I think repression causes your thingys to come out," Uzi tilted her head quizzically at N's deduction, "What makes you say that?" N pointed out her receding wings and tail, "Because those things are going back in you." Uzi moaned in disappointment, "Augh, I just got them out!" N patted her on the head, "Just focus on repressing your feelings, then let them out again!"
Uzi nodded, and began to concentrate. What had she been repressing? There was her dad that left her for dead though that was old news, she didn't need therapy for that anymore. Who would've thought that going through increasingly traumatizing events would make such things so trivial in comparison? Alright, maybe she needed therapy for that statement, but right now she needed to dig deeper. Her not having friends? Being alone? It…frightened her for sure, but not that badly, right? It's not like she needed someone to hold her hand when she was afraid. It wasn't like she needed someone who wasn't obsessing over doors, or someone that didn't treat her like a freak. It's not like she needed someone to be by her side when her body began breaking and putting itself back together. It's not like she needed someone to just…just be with her when her mom died.
"Uzi!" The girl's optics glowed bright as she woke up from her trance, "Your wings and tail are out again! You did it!" N said cheerfully but his tone quickly turned to concern after seeing Uzi's distraught face, "You okay?" Uzi immediately tried to deny his concerns, "I'm fine…" she stopped realizing what she was about to do again, "I'm…not. Just really took a bit from me." N held her hands closely, she looked up at him expectantly, "Don't worry, baby steps, okay? I'll be right here at every step of the way."
Uzi's chest tightened as her visor blushed, she tightened her grip on N's hands, and spoke gently, "Thank you." Her tail circled the two of them and pulled them closer to each other, "Uh…whoops, my bad," Uzi apologized having lost control of her tail, N chuckled, "It's fine, honestly I wish my tail had a mind of its own…maybe a face too," he raised his glowing tail filled with toxic nanites deadly to their own kind.
Uzi laughed, "Well maybe I can- "Her line of thinking was cut short by a sudden yawn from N, "You okay there?" N snapped himself out of it and blinked his optics open, "I'm fine, I've just been getting really sleepy these past few days." Try as he might, another yawn escaped from his mouth. Uzi pushed him onto her bed, N tried to push back, "Hey, are you sure about this? I've read that it's bad manners to sleep on the host's bed," Uzi rolled her optics at him, "It's fine, considering how much you've helped me out, this is the least I can do."
"B-But," N's protests went unheard as he yawned once again. Uzi assured him, "It's fine, just get some rest, if you don't, I'll tell V you have a crush on her." N tried to fight back, but his body got heavier and heavier, "F-Fine, just don't…tell…her," and his optics shut and his visor display showed the message, 'Sleep mode.'
Uzi giggled, "I promise." Seeing his sleeping face did give Uzi an idea though, she smiled mischievously, and picked up a marker.
She also kept in mind that she'd have to look up what Error 606 meant later.
N woke up to a cackling Uzi, who immediately swiveled her chair towards him, "Uzi, what's going on?" Uzi grinned, "Oh, nothing, just decided to make one of your dreams come true for a change, isn't that right, Lady Tailos?" Uzi optics looked to her left as her tail seemingly started to speak, "That's right noble one, I have been waiting for hours for my escort, it is highly unbecoming of him," N looked on confused by the sight, Uzi sighed and raised her optics towards his tail, which N looked upon and saw something special. His tail had a face, granted it was drawn on, with a sharp grin, and anime eyes. It was a gesture that made N beam with excitement, and make even Uzi smile at her best friend's appreciation. Nonetheless, the show must go on, and Uzi let out a tiny cough bringing N's attention to her tail, now dubbed as Lady Tailos.
N immediately played along, "Well I can't leave a lady waitin'! Just don' go tailin' people about tis" The two teens laughed at the horrible pun, "That was the worse man!" Uzi said as she continued to laugh, N rolled his optics, "Well it made you laugh, didn't it?" The two robots calmed down, and heaved a breath.
N decided that he needed to thank his best friend and immediately picked her up from the floor, "Hey what are you- "N wrapped his arms around Uzi's smaller frame, in a hug and spun her around, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Uzi! No one's ever done anything like this for me before!" As he was spinning her around, Uzi began to complain, "Stop spinning me around! I just did something nice for you, don't let it go to your head!" N simply kept spinning her gleefully, and try as she might, she thought that it was nice. Letting her head slowly sink into N's shoulders and hugging him back. N feeling the weight, stopped in his tracks as he realized how close they were, "Oh…uh…sorry," he put Uzi back down on the floor, "It's okay, just don't do that again, you know?" Uzi nervously scratched the back of her head, hoping that N didn't realize that her fingers lingered as N gently put her down.
The two pulled away from each other hoping to dispel the awkward atmosphere, but were pulled back as they realized that their tails were entangled to each other.
"Oh…uh…"
"Eh…"
The teens began to panic as they tried to pull their tails away, but the knot simply kept getting tighter and tighter.
"So, just let me do this…" N tried to swing their tails around, which baffled Uzi who began to argue, "No! Stop just let me do this!" Uzi's wings ejected from her back, and she promptly flapped them in a vain attempt to untangle their tails. Unfortunately, she failed to take into account how N's weight would affect her flight. "Oh shit!" Her wings hit the papers situated above the two, causing her to fall and dislodge the threads connecting the papers.
"Uzi!" N cried out in concern, and spread his arms to catch his best friend who landed atop of him instead. The sudden crash briefly knocked the two out, and as they regained consciousness, they saw that they were further entangled with papers and red threads connecting the two. Now face to face with each other, the two groaned, "Well this could've gone better," Uzi stated sarcastically to which N swung his tail around and started to speak with an accent, "It ain't so bad, at least Lady Tailos is 'ere to comfort ol' me." Uzi seeing no other way out simply played along, "You are a fool to think that I merely a woman made to comfort you, at the very least, take me to dinner first!" N blushed, thinking that Uzi had indirectly asked him out, but shook it off treating it as part of the game, "I would make all the time for you milady," he said with a suave voice, that made Uzi blush too, "Why don't we go out right now?"
A prospect that made N look at Uzi, while Uzi was trying to think of a way out of the situation.
"Sweet Robo-Jesus just take me to Robo-Hell already!" The two turned towards a voice near the room's door, as V's arms shifted into blades cutting the tails and threads of the two entangled idiots. The two screamed in pain as their appendages were cut off.
"Lady Tailos!" N screamed as Uzi's tail fell. "Golden RearSmith!" Uzi yelled as the drawn-on face of N's tail began to break apart as the nanites freely flowed out of the broken container.
"You named my tail Golden RearSmith?" N asked suddenly, taking Uzi aback, "You never named him so I decided to." V groaned at the sight of the two getting their attention back.
"V!" N exclaimed, "How long have you been there?" V rolled her optics, "Long enough to know that you two are horrible puppeteers." Uzi yelled back, "You're a horrible puppeteer!" V sighed frustratingly, "That doesn't make any sense!"
"You don't make any sense! What the hell are you even doing here?" Uzi asked angrily, as V explained herself, "Followed dog boy here," eliciting a disgruntled "Hey!" from N as V continued to speak, "We've been entering sleep mode way too much, and I think something may be going on in our heads. And you're the only one with half a logic circuit so patch us up."
Uzi growled, "Bite me!" But before they could argue, a pop up appeared on N's face, displaying Error 606 once again, as N collapsed on the floor. "N!" Uzi yelled out in concern as she inspected him, V sat next to N as she felt her optics get heavy, "Just help us out alright? Then the two of you can go back to playing with each other's rear ends."
"Phrasing!" Uzi countered, but went unnoticed as V's display began to show the same error as N's. Uzi turned her optics towards her best friend, she was glad that he had been here with her, helping her out. He never left her side when she needed him. She smiled at the thought that she wasn't alone anymore, she whispered a soft promise in his audio receptors, "I'll get you back, count on it."
A/N: Hey everyone, Somi here! Murder Drones came into my life like a wrecking ball, and I regret watching Sarcastic Chorus' video on N x Uzi, because I literally just love these two's dynamic. But after watching the show I also lik because of their hidden history, I can't decide which ship I'm on. Like I know N x Uzi will probably be endgame but why can't they all just fuck each other…oh ProZD, you truly were a prophet. I know why, but why?!
But if you were to ask me what the superior ship is it's definitely NUzi, simply because of the fact that the two trust each other so much. N and V simply don't have the same trust that they had in the past, V keeps doing suspicious things while saying that it's for N's best interests. Plus, NUzi just had more HNNNNNNG! and AUGGGGGHHH! moments, these are completely quantifiable units in identifying the chemistry of two characters. Though again, I like both ships.
Anyways, this one shot takes place between episode 4 and episode 5 with the ending offering an explanation as to how both N and V ended up in Uzi's room. Probably doesn't make sense logically, but hey I choose to put it there cause why not? Hopefully none of the characters feel too OOC, Uzi might be the most OOC out of the cast here, but that's because I think she's slowly moving towards away from her tsun side and into her dere side, if you catch my drift.
Feel free to comment and offer your critiques as always.
Stay Gold.