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‘Things were quiet now, after everything. The solver was finally defeated, Uzi was okay, and everything seemed okay. So why does something feel so wrong?!’
N thought to himself as he rolled in bed. But he knew what was wrong. With all the time he'd been given not worried about hunting, or being paranoid about an eldritch monster destroying everything he had all the time in the world to think, and he'd somewhat diagnosed what his issue was for a while now, maybe he even knew beforehand.
‘This body kinda sucks’ Not being a disassembly drone no but, something else. Something deeper than that. Something in his programming constantly nagged at him more and more now that he could actually pay attention to it. And now that he thought about it, he even had this problem back at the manor, the same dreadful feeling that something was off in his systems.
“Ugh, why do I feel like this?” He mumbled to himself, but even the words coming out of his mouth sounded wrong, and he felt the nagging of his programming growing even louder than it was before. He stretched and let out a groan to try and let out the frustration, but the low, guttural sound that came out from his voice box only intensified it.
He dragged himself out of his bed, looking at the mirror he had placed in his bedroom, looking into it with an annoyed expression before trying his best to put on a smile. Though it quickly wavered as his eyes fixated on his hair. He ran his hands through it, ruffling it a bit and trying to get it to look even somewhat comfortable, but nothing worked.
He let out a sigh of resignation and put on his pilot cap before putting on his best smile before pulling out the phone he had recently gotten from Uzi as a sort of “welcome to the bunker!” gift, along with the apartment that he had been provided.
He checked the time, seeing that it was almost 10pm, a smile genuinely growing on his face, knowing that he and Uzi had a dare planned tonight over at her place, so after taking one last look in the mirror, still being disappointed in his looks, he walked out the door to apartment and began making his way over to Uzi’s apartment.
His heavy legs clanked against the floor, hating the way his legs felt with every step, and after a while he dipped into a small hallway and took a look at them. They were thick, and heavy, two massive track-pads on the bottom of them. ‘Why couldn't I have gotten those sleek, light looking legs that J and V got?’ He pondered to himself, just another thing he could thank Cyn for, I guess.
Continuing on his way, his movements were slow as he had his settings menu opened up, trying to figure out the source of all these feelings. Though even after what felt like an eternity, he couldn't find anything that could explain it, so he closed his menu and looked around. It didn't take long before he realized he'd already passed Uzi’s apartment, his eyes hollowing for a second as he began booking it in the other direction down the hall, checking the time again to see it had already passed 10 now.
He knocked on the door while taking in a few deep breaths, the door opening to Khan, who gave him a little greeting. Nori, who was on his shoulder, gave him a stern look. “Well there you are! Uzi was starting to wonder where you were!” Khan announced with a light chuckle before letting him in. N shyly brushed the back of his head. “Yeah, sorry about that. The bunker is still a little confusing to me, all the hallways look the same! I promise I'll make it up to her, don't worry!”
He reassured, Khan smiling gently, but Nori was still giving him that same dirty look, his eyes shifting to meet hers. “I-Is something wrong, Mrs. Uzi?” Nori continued to glare before rolling her eye and looking away. “I'm not the biggest fan of my daughter going out with a murder drone.” That was….fair. Afterall, he was still designed specifically to kill worker drones, but this is Uzi we're talking about! “Hey! She defeated the solver, AND is the admin of it now, I think she can take care of herself!”
Maybe it was the grumpiness from earlier that caused it, but the aggression in his voice surprised even him, and also hated it. He immediately backed off a bit, nervously chuckling. “B-Besides, I'd never hurt her, I love Uzi.” He said in a much more gentle tone, Khan letting out a quiet ‘awww’, Nori letting out a groan. “Fine, okay okay. Now get going, she's already waiting for you, dummy.” Nori let out with a huff.
N waved the two goodbye before knocking on Uzi's door, immediately being grabbed and pulled in by her tail, the door shutting right behind him. He was expecting Uzi to be upset, but instead the first thing she did was pull him into a hug. “Jeez, you were starting to make me all worried and stuff. What happened?” The thought of telling a lie crossed his mind, but he couldn't bear lying to his girlfriend, so he let out a sigh as he hugged back.
“Honestly? I…spaced out. My heads been in a weird place lately. Talk about it later?” He said with a soft smile. Uzi looked up at him, her half gold, half purple eyes looking up at him warmly before releasing him from the hug, instead gently putting her hand over his. “Yeah, after an episode or two maybe? “She smiled shyly while shrugging, a blush appearing on her visor, one side gold and the other purple.
The two of them settled into bed, N taking Uzi’s hand and helping her up, plopping down next to him, setting her laptop down between them. “Okay, I got to pick last time, so it's your turn.” She turned the laptop slowly towards him, looking at the black screen for a moment and seeing his reflection, frowning slightly. Uzi immediately took note of this and grabbed his hand, displaying a >:3 face on her screen as his head shifted to look at her.
He couldn't help but let out a small giggle, taking Uzi’s hand and squeezing it gently, her presence being a small reprieve from the thoughts jumbling around in his processors. He turned on the laptop and browsed for a moment, deciding to click on an anime that already been watching for a decent bit. He didn't really catch much of the story, as he always fell asleep during it, only really understanding that it was a band of pirates searching for some kind of object called a “One Piece”
He was beginning to drift to sleep, Uzi's head leaning against his shoulder as he began to lie his own head against it. Uzi’s tail would occasionally investigate, Causing her to snap and tell it to back off, but otherwise it was peaceful. Just as he was about to drift off however, a scene caught his attention. A character had just put on a mask, and what was strange was that the characters kept referring to her as a man, despite clearly being a woman.
Soon enough his confusion had an answer, as the two characters at her side asked “What?! Are you a Man?!” And the reply from her made his optics hollow. “I'm a woman at heart.” That one simple line stirred something inside of him. ‘Him’? It made N take in a deep breath, putting a hand over the casing of her core, which was whirring like crazy.
Uzi looked over to see N’s eyes, and the way her hand was pressed against her own chest and immediately paused the episode, shifting and grabbing that aame hand in her own. “N? Are you good?” N wiped a tear from their visor, stifling a sob before nodding to her girlfriend before speaking. “Y-Yeah….I don't know. Something about that just…it made me feel like, really good?” Uzi turned back to the screen, the gears turning in her head for a moment before it clicked, turning back and giving her girlfriend a warm smile.
“Does that like, have to do with what you said earlier?” N couldn't help but stammer, not even sure what to say. Uzi was a little nervous too, wanting to support N no matter what, but unsure of how to word it before displaying some text on her screen, reading “I'm here for you <3” Reading that message put N’s mind at ease almost immediately, letting out a sigh before finally nodding her head. “I- yeah. I think so. I've just been….getting this nagging feeling at the back of my head ever since we stopped Cyn that just won't go away, and it was the same back when I was at the manor. I just….I hate how I sound, and how I look. I feel gross. Wrong. Like-”
Uzi put a hand over N’s mouth, nodding her head with a gentle smile. “It's okay, there's nothing wrong with you, N. So like, that woman in that anime we just watched? Well, she's trans.” ‘Trans? Is that like, a term I should know?’ N thought to herself, looking from the screen and back to her. “Okay? What's that mean?” Her voice was one of genuine confusion, but also intrigue.
Uzi continued after N's question, her hand gripping N’s slightly tighter than before. “Sometimes, humans do something kinda stupid where a woman is like, accidentally born in the body of a dude, or vice versa. And well, the same can happen to a drone.” N nodded her head along, the pieces finally coming together. And once the puzzle was all put together, everything suddenly made sense.
“Oh.”
“OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
N lifted her hands up to her head, her eyes widening in realization. “So, you mean like? Im-” Uzi giggled at her reaction before giving a shrug. “I don't know N. Is that like…how you feel?” N thought about it, bit only for a moment, her voice more confident than ever. “Yes! It makes so much sense now…..wow….I feel….relieved.” She then couldn't help but put a hand to her throat, letting out a sigh. “So um, is there anything I can do about this?” she said, gesturing to her voice box. Uzi giggled and nodded her head.
“Oh definitely! That's the nice thing about us drones, this kinda thing is way easier to change than with humans. Just gimme a minute to look through my settings so I can guide you." After that, Uzi’s settings menu appeared on her visor, clicking on multiple different options, looking through every menu to find the voice change option. In the meantime, N looked at the laptop again, smiling at the screen before looking back at Uzi, worry quickly drowning him as a thought began to cross his mind.
“H-Hey, Uzi?” At her name, Uzi closed her menu and looked at N with a raised eyebrow. “Yeah, N?” The smile she wore was soft. Genuine. Warm. It helped calm her own nerves as she tried to choke out the question. “You, um…You still love me, right?” Her voice was hushed, blushing and smiling awkwardly at Uzi. Uzi rolled her eyes and chuckled to herself, pushing gently on N's shoulder. “Yes I still love you! You're still the same cute- weird! disassembly drone I fell in love with.” N's core swelled, wiping a tear from her visor before pulling Uzi into a tight, loving embrace.
“Yay~ ” N said with a sniffle, holding her girlfriend tightly before Uzi gently, but firmly pushed her away. “Okay ew stop it, too mushy!” She pretended to hate it, but the smile on her face and blush in her visor betrayed her. Soon enough, Uzi was guiding N through the individual menus until finding the correct page, a smile growing on N's face as she began tweaking the settings, doing internal monologue tests to gauge it before settling on something she liked, closing the window and getting ready to use her new voice.
“So um, what do you think?” Her voice was bright and bubbly, and even more gentle than it was before, though it also held a more than noticeable dose of nervousness. Though as it resonated from her voice box, it was like where there was once a box marked with a red x there was now a green checkmark in her programming. It almost made Uzi melt, her whole visor glowing from the gold and purple blush she couldn't even attempt to hide, her mouth wide open. “O-Oh wow, Well I um, Er-” She couldn't even get out a full sentence, the words faltering at her lips before she paused, trying to compose herself.
N's nervousness grew even more before digging her hands into her face. “I-I sound ridiculous, don't I?” Those words leaving her girlfriend's mouth is what finally stirred up enough courage inside Uzi to say something, grabbing the sides of N's head and pressing her forehead onto hers. “You don't sound ridiculous! You sound….you sound frickin’ adorable, okay?!” N’ visor began to glow with a vibrant blush, nearly covering her entire face.
“I-I love you, Uzi. You're the best girlfriend ever.” She spoke with honeyed words, Uzi's evens changing to swirls as her head rushed with N’s new voice saying that directly into her audio receptors, pushing her away before crossing her arms. “B-Bite me! Besides, I think you take the title of ‘best girlfriend’ out of the two of us, heh.
N’s blush only became brighter as the term ‘girlfriend’ was used to refer to her, immediately pouncing onto Uzi in another hug, and then pressing a kiss onto her cheek, nearly causing her to short circuit. Though the moment was cut slightly short as N’s leg brushed against Uzi, a reminder of her big, heavy legs sending more nagging signals to the back her processors.
Uzi looked down at her girlfriends legs and noticed her discomfort before letting out a little gremlin giggle, crawling off the bed and searching through her closet. “Give me just one moment, N!’ N cocked her head to the side, as she waited on the bed before Uzi suddenly pulled put a pair of female disassembly drone legs with a “Aha!” N’s features beamed before slowly growing into confusion and slight concern.
“Uh….Uzi. Why do you have disassembly drone legs in your closet?” Uzi looked to the ground, stammering out an incoherent response before her tail raised itself up, the gold disappearing from Uzi’s eyes as they instead filled up the eyes of the tail “She was trying to make- herself taller. *teasing laugh*” N’s disturbed feelings about the solver living inside of her girlfriend was suppressed for a small moment at the statement, not able to hold back a quiet, amused giggle, the sound that filled up the room making Uzi’s core flutter.
‘Uuuuugh Is this girl seriously making me fall in love with her AGAIN?!’ Was all she could think before she grabbed her tail and threw it behind her. “Quit ruining the moment, Cyn! No more interruptions during my dates!” Her tail looked over towards her, slightly slumped over. “*Annoyed expression* Fine. But you owe me a- tea party soon.” The tail spoke before retreating back into Uzi’s body, the gold returning to the top part of her eyes.
N in the meantime had remembered that this was still a date, her optics hollowing out realizing that she'd completely derailed the entire thing. “Oh biscuits! I completely ruined the date with my stupid stuff, oh Uzi I'm so sorry!” Uzi had to hold back an eye roll before climbing back onto the bed and giving N a tight hug before speaking into her audio receptors. “You didn't ruin anything, you dork. I'm happy to help you with this sort of stuff because…I want you to be happy too.”
Uzi gave N a warm smile before picking up the legs again, trying to not linger on the sappy moment and grabbing a few tools from around her room, setting them all down in front of N. “Kay, I got everything I need. Do I uh, have your consent to do this?” She said with a shy blush on her face. It felt weirdly intimate for her to be doing something like this. Knowing she didn't even have to ask, N would say yes probably no matter what, but she still wanted her input.
And of course, just as predicted. N's response was an immediate “Yes!” A wide smile on her face from cheek to cheek, her tail practically thrashing around and spitting little droplets of nanite acid onto walls and ceiling. Uzi couldn't help but chuckle at N's pure excitement before getting to work on replacing her legs.
The process wasn't too painful, only a slight sting when untightening the main bolts around the joint area and tightening them back on when the new legs were attached. Once it was over, N couldn't help but smile with giddy at her new legs, immediately tossing her old ones in the trash can and hopping off the bed to try standing on them. She almost tripped and fell a few times, but quickly got the hang of it, actually seeming more graceful than with her old legs once she got accustomed.
Finally, like a little cherry on top, Uzi outstretched her hand, using the edit function of the solver on N's hair. As the floating Circle spun, N's hair began to grow out, with her watching in awe. The front part stayed mostly the same, with her bangs simply becoming a bit more prominent. Further back however, her hair began to stretch far, far down, almost down to her hips before Uzi stopped to examine. The hair in the back was still styled the same as the front, with long windswept waves with tufts of it jutting out at different lengths and angles, N immediately going to inspect her new look in a nearby body length mirror.
“So um, does it look okay? I can still change it if-” her sentence was cut off by an ear piercing squeal as N began to mess with Her new hair, twirling it around her fingers. It also gave her the opportunity to get a proper look at her new legs, smiling in adoration as she turned from side to side to inspect both her hair and legs at all angles. For the first time ever, N was actually enjoying looking at herself in the mirror, feeling like her programming was finally at ease, the constant itchy feeling nagging for once quieting down until she could barely hear it anymore.
After looking herself over she jumped onto the bed and wrapped Uzi in yet another tight hug, her tail wrapping around Uzi’s waist. “ThankyouthankyouthankyouUziyou'reseriouslythemostamazinggirlfriendeverandIhavenocluewhatI'ddowithoutyou” She said in a high pitched giggle, nuzzling into her neck, her giggles slowly fading into sobs.
Uzi held N tighter and tighter, letting her cry into her shoulder, N slowly lifting up her head after it subsided. “S-Sorry about that, I don't know what came over me there. It's just….weird actually feeling like, comfortable in my body, you know?” She said, wiping a tear from her visor before looking down at Uzi, her core fluttering at just how thought she had been, and that she was still willing to accept her, hell even LOVE her despite this sudden change. And she wanted to show her appreciation.
N began to slowly lean down, her eyes half lidded as she pulled Uzi in close. Uzi was blushing furiously but didn't stop her whatsoever, her own eyes beginning to close as she leaned up to meet her girlfriends lips…..and then the door opened, with both Khan and Nori- still standing on his shoulder right there. Both of them immediately yelped at the sight of what they thought was someone entirely different in Uzi’s bed. “UZI DOORMAN!! How many murder drones are you dating?!?!” Nori yelled in frustration, Khan simply standing still in utter disbelief.
Uzi groaned and readyed her solver, the symbol appearing over the doorway. “Bite me! This is N, and she's my girlfriend now so deal with it! And stay out of my room!!” She barked back at her mother before slamming the door shut, using the scale function immediately after to force it to stay shut. After dealing with that awkward situation she turned back to N, her eyes quickly melting from their angry expression back to that warm desire from just a second ago.
N stared deeply into the gorgeous mix of gold and purple in her visor, her core fluttering as she took a deep breath. “Th-That was kinda awkward….I'd didn't kill the mood, did it?” Uzi put a hand to N’s cheek and gave her a mischievous smile, letting out a devilish giggle. “Not even a little bit~” Just after that, Uzi put her arms around N’s shoulders and immediately pulled her into a deep, passionate kiss that the two shared for a long, long time.
The two spent the rest of the night cuddling, watching shows as Uzi gently ran her fingers through N’s hair until the two of them fell asleep against each other, a smile on both of their faces as their visors displayed ‘Sleep Mode’