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Okay, Uzi remembers her fiasco in the factory last time, she doesn't wanna do it again.
"J, before we go in, can you finally give me normal bullets?"
"Oh.. did I forget to give you them..?"
"Yes. Yes you did."
"Sorry about that."
She tossed 5 magazines to Uzi, 60 shots will be enough.
"Thank you. Now, observe."
Uzi put the keycard on the outside door terminal extremely dramatically.
And now, after so much time, the door to the colony will.. will...
...
The door will..
...
Bonk
She kicked the door which actually made it open, but it ruined the whole dramatic entrance.
Inside, there was only one WDF worker looking at door 2, who didn't even notice the door opening.
Why is there only 1? Usually theres a whole squad.. whatever.
She walked up to the worker and lightly tapped his shoulder.
"Uh, hey what do youuuu.."
"Long time no see!"
"Uhhhhh.. who are you?"
"Uzi Doorman, you know me riiight?"
"Let's see, uhh.. Uzi Doorman.. Doorman.. doesn't ring any- wait a second."
Uzi pressed her gun against his head, which made him actually look behind her, seeing N, V and J.
"Oh f-."
BANG
Oil splattered on Uzi's face. She licked it off while everyone else couldn't see it. She just doesn't want them to know she's doing it.. feels embarrassing(?).
"Suprised how little it actually budges you to do that, Z."
"Who cared about him anyway?"
She walked up to J, and gave her the override card back.
"So.. uh.. what's the plan again? I didn't really get it from that 5 second explanation."
"Ugh.. N, you and I are going through the main entrance. Uzi and V are going through the vents."
"Oh yeah, right, sorry."
"Whatever."
"Off we go! See you later, V!"
"See you later, N, I guess."
"N, please atleast try to act competent.."
"I am though!"
"Yeah yeah, lowest body count eats a missle!"
"V, you know its gonna be Uzi!"
Uzi hopped into the vents first, making V go behind her.
After a long enough crawling session, she finally got where she needed.
"Oh finally, I got to my destination."
"Eh? You got a special place you gotta go to?"
"My workshop, have to get some stuff from there. You can drop out from riight there."
Uzi pointed in the general direction of the closest vent she knows.
"Alright. See you later, Z. Don't get a gun to the head this time."
And so, they split off, Uzi opened the hatch to her workshop and immediately started looking for the main thing she was after:
Her notepad with blueprints.
The most important thing in here! Materials can get found elswhere and she has an abundance of her purple lights hidden in the corners of this colony.
Ok, now it should be.. uh.. where..
...
Where is it.
This is bad. Real bad. She has to find whoever has that notepad.
Without wasting time, she dropped out of the same vent that V got out from, and began thinking who may have it.
Khan? No, he would never even try to find her, so he wouldn't seek out this place.
Doll? Maybe..? Probably not though, she has no care for Uzi and wouldn't look here.
What about other WDF workers? There's only 3 that could possibly know where this place could be, and one is Khan.
Only 2 others left then: the guy who sometimes came up to the apartment and the girl on the security cameras.
That guy may have possibly seen her get in a vent once, but she double checked that noone saw her, not him.
That leaves the security camera girl. She could've deduced that something was wrong the times Uzi got in the vents or something..
She only knows that it's a girl on the cameras because she once stopped Uzi from 'trying something funny' by using a speaker on a camera.
Well, she knows the location of the main camera room, so she can figure out from there. It's right on the way to that school but need to take a few detours at the end.
And so, she mapped a way to there in her hud, and sprinted across the halls of the bunker. She'll give the evacuation spot location to J, V and N later. Blueprints first.
While running, she saw a familiar face. A certain WDF worker who berated her for meaningless things many times.
"Hey! What are you, deaf or something! It's not safe here!"
She doesn't even know his name, but she doesn't need it to do this.
"Oh yes, FINALLY I can get some proper payback!"
"Wha-"
BANG
Ohh, it feelt so good finally shooting him..
"HEY! WHAT'S HAPPENING.. here..."
Another one. She didn't know this guy but can't let him get away.
BANG
She may be enjoying this even a bit too much.
Continuing to run, she decided to just shoot everyone she saw: the adults that were looking down at her, the WDF workers that kept laughing at her, just everyone.
Each shot resonated with her memories. The bullying, the tourment, the ignorance. After all those, everyone can BITE HER BULLETS.
..Weird way to change your catchphrase, geez. She's not trying that again, 'Bite me' is good enough, 'Bite my bullet' was not made for her.
Getting to the office, she found it wide open, that means the one working here is already away, but she can try and find her now.
Going in the office, Uzi immediately got up to the PC, trying to turn it on to see the username.
[Good evening, LanaCamAdmin.]
[Enter password: ________ ]
She got a first name, Lana. Now needs to see how many Lana's there are in the WDF database. Easy to do from her old house, Khan had a spreadsheet with names sorted by letter for whatever reason. It wasnt even in work related folder.
And so, Uzi ran off, again.
The run back was uneventful, since she already killed everyone on the way.
Getting to the apartment, she quickly opened the door and started walking to Khan's room.
Near Khan's room, she suddenly heard rummaging. Is he there? If so, she's not killing him yet.
Uzi prepared to grab whoever was there, and kicked down the door, expecting to find Khan and getting ready to say everything she wanted!
..But she found not Khan, but a different female worker drone.
"AAAAH!"
Okay, seeing her made this woman fall down. Wow.
"Oh. Hey, missie, what are you doing in here?"
The eyes on the visor of the person she was talking to expanded immensely after hearing her voice.
"UZI!?"
"You actually remember me? Who might you be."
"I-IM LANA! LANA CAMERON! UZI HOW ARE YOU-"
Oh. Good thing that everyone in the WDF has weird surnames that say their job for some reason.
"I don't actually have to search for you then, great. Now.."
Uzi pulled her gun out, and started threatening her. Uzi's own face just went blank.
"Where. Are. My. Blueprints."
"I.. I uh..."
"Don't daddle around the question, where are they."
"They- they're at my house! They're at my house ok?!"
"Good. Now lead the way to them, and don't even think of doing funny stuff, ok? I don't want to drag you behind myself and ask questions every like.. 5 seconds."
"Ok.."
Lana slowly stood up, raised her hands and started walking out the room. Really slowly.
BANG
Uzi shot right near her head, causing her to flinch.
"Faster, please! I don't have all day over here."
"YES, YES OKAY IM GOING FASTER NOW!"
Ugh, this is going to be so annoying if she keeps going slow.
After painfully walking with Lana in silence, suddenly she spoke up.
"Uzi.. how are you.. here?"
"Look at that! Someone decided to look after me, after, what, 15 years? I don't even remember how much time passed since that moment already."
"Uzi, Im.. Im serious. How are you alive?"
"How am I ali- HOW AM I ALIVE AFTER MY SO CALLED 'FATHER' KHAN LEFT ME TO DIE!?"
"Khan did.. what?"
"Loud and clear over here. Closed the door on me when I got pinned, ignored my gun on the floor that would save me and left me to DIE."
Her words were dripping with so much hate, that they even reverberated a bit.
..Overdid it, Uzi. You're not gonna be seeing her ever again, but atleast try to control your emotions for now.
Lana fell silent. Maybe she even understood how Uzi felt, but she's yet another WDF worker. She won't trust any of those anymore.
After the not-so-sweet talk, they finally got to Lana's apartment. Uzi immediately made Lana open the door and lead the way.
"H-here it is.."
Lana handed over her notebook, she apparently put it in a plastic bag. She still has a few questions before finishing here.
"Okay, how many people know about it?"
"Noone.. I told noone about your schematics.."
"Shame really. But one less loose end."
"Now, Im gonna guess you won't leave me alive.. can I ask one last question?"
"Sure. Go for it."
"..What happened that day? The day that the murder drones got in, I mean."
"Short story - I finished my gun, almost killed N, had a talk with him, ran back to the colony, got left to die, fixed by J and pretty much it. Not telling the long one."
"Who's- Quite a bit for one day, huh.. well, it was actually kinda nice talking to you, little purple."
"Can't say the same. Also ew gross nickname."
BANG
Uzi did everything important she had to do in the colony. Now she can just go and get sweet revenge.
//Z-018: Alright, I did the stuff i needed to do.
//Z-018: Did y'all find any evac spots already?
//N-001: I didn't, Im actually lost right now.
//N-001: Why are there so many cryo-storage rooms?
//Z-018: I know where you are, just keep going right and you'll eventually get out.
//Z-018: Can't blame you for getting stuck though, that place is literally a maze because of all the doors Khan made.
//N-001: Thanks, Uzi!
//Z-018: Ahem, so anyone else found any?
//J-002: No.
//V-003: Not yet.
//Z-018: Ok then, I don't know if they moved it since last year, but here is the location.
//Z-018: [Attached: MemorySave35_Location_Data]
//Z-018: [Attached: MemorySave34_Location_Data]
//Z-018: [Attached: MemorySave37_Location_Data]
Now, time to head out there to the closest one.
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Meanwhile
A spaceship lightly touched down on Copper-9. Near that spaceship was a small spire of corpses.
A figure in a space suit walked out of the ship, holding a sword behind her back.
A plate on the suit read:
'Certified JcJenson Technician'
'Tessa Elliott'
A voice rang up behind her.
"We didn't expect you to get here so soon, Tess."
"Well neither did I, B! Managed to talk them into getting me here sooner."
Another drone ran up from behind him, and literally almost jumped on her, only getting restrained by B.
"Tessa! Hiii! Ooh we were told we're going with you somewhere, where?"
And finally, the last one appeared from the spire behind B.
"Come on, C. Get yourself together infront of our boss.."
"No, no, G. I enjoy all your company, so you guys keep being yourselves around me, k?"
"If you say so, boss. But really, where are we going?"
"I'll explain it to you guys on the way, just know we're gonna be with J for some time."
"J? She was lovely to be around with! Did she do something wrong..?"
"Don't worry about it, C. Certain Tess wouldn't get here so fast if J did something wrong."
As they were talking, Tessa went back in her ship.
"All get aboard the flyie! This journey will be a couple hours long!"
C jumped in first, excited with a new adventure with Tessa. She was followed by B and G calmly walking in.
After checking that everyone was there, Tessa turned the engines back on and started going towards J's spire.
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Surprisingly, Uzi was actually not really far away from the closest evacuation spot, only 6 minutes of running.
Along the way, she met a couple more workers, just distracting really. When she got to the evacuation spot, she put her head against the door and heard muffeled talking. Atleast 14 drones there.
Unlike what Uzi expected, she wasn't going to go there herself, N decided to go to the same spot as her. He flew in his murderous mode on, the usual [X] on his face and wide smile, but when he saw Uzi he went back to normal.
"Oh! Hi again, Uzi!"
"Yeah, hi."
"Have you uhh.. seen V anywhere? And J, yeah."
"Last time I saw V was in the vents, didn't see J yet."
"Oh.. ok then!"
"Why are you asking me where they are anyway? Can't you ask them on the comms yourself?"
"Well.. I.. uh.."
N was shifting slightly, which gave Uzi an idea why he didn't do that.
"..You want to suprise V or something?"
"Yeah, you could call it that.."
"Well, good to see you're actually shooting your shot with her. She is changing compared to how you told me about her."
"I know right! She actually remembers my name now!.."
This was.. a bit concerning, but hey Uzi's not the one to judge N's interests, she had unrestricted internet access. They'd look good together anyway.
"Anyways, evac spot here, can you give this door a push?"
"Yeah, just walk away a bit."
And so she did, not expecting N to pull out a rocket launcher for his arm.
BOOM
Owowowow, yep, her audio recorder wasn't ready.
After the sudden sound overload from a missle exploding a couple meters away from her went away, she went back to normal.
"Oh.. nice one, N!"
"Thanks!"
The door now had a huge hole in it. Looking in, there was the usual mass of terrified workers. No classmates though.
...
Except there was someone Uzi REALLY wanted to see.
"Ohh yes. J a c k p o t."
"Uzi, isn't that your.."
"After you're done, find me a rope. I have plans for him."
"You got it."
Across the room, she had her eyes locked on Khan. And looks like he finally recognised her.
He looked really surprised, to the point he dropped the cup he did not deserve. His 'Number 1 Dad' cup.
"Y..ou..?"
Everyone in the room started to scatter and try to run away. N flew up into the air to catch some of them, she didn't bother paying attention to them right now.
Uzi slowly started walking towards Khan
"What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost."
"Why.. why are you-"
BANG
She started shooting some workers she could see because N could use some help in cleaning up.
"Why am I alive? Great question!"
BANG
"You made sure I wouldn't be, right?"
"YOU JUST- YOU MONSTER!"
"Oh, IM THE MONSTER?!"
Uzi had so many emotions in her at that moment, and she had few words to express them all.
BANG
"I AM THE MONSTER FOR YOU LEAVING ME FOR DEAD?!"
BANG
"YOU KNOW I-"
She didn't listen to what he was saying.
"IM THE MONSTER FOR YOU NOT EVEN SHOWING UP INFRONT OF ME AT MY HOME FOR 4 YEARS?! I AM THE MONSTER FOR YOU SUPPORTING PEOPLE WHO WERE OPENLY TOURMENTING ME?!"
BANG BANG BANG
Tears started to flow down on her visor. She was screaming at this point.
"I AM THE MONSTER FOR NOT EVEN GETTING TO KNOW HOW MY DEAD MOTHER LOOKED LIKE!?!"
She started to catch her breath, her CPU would start overheating if she continued.
"Well.. guess what? Im done. I am not going to take it."
"U-"
BANG
She shot his palm, making Khan cry out in pain.
"I let the murder drones in accidentally that time. You left me to die knowing you could save me."
Uzi's posture straightened up and made her stand in full height.
"This time, it's not accidental. I fully knew the consequences, like you did."
She finally got over to Khan, towering above him with her physique. Her mouth was starting to widen up, closer to V's hunt mouth.
"Wanna know something funny too? You can answer now."
"Uzi.. Im.."
"I'll take that as a yes."
She leaned in right to the place where Khan's ear would be.
"I got a new mom. A 'murder drone' at that. J cared about me more thst you did in your entire goddamn life."
Khan's eyes just blankly stared behind Uzi.
"And you won't be dying yet, oh believe me, you're not dying yet. I will personally let you watch me having fun with J. Someone who did the role of a parent better than you ever did for me."
As Uzi finally pulled away from Khan, everyone in the room was dead. N walked up to Khan with the rope she asked him to get and started to tie him up.
"Hey, N, Uzi, how are you two doing here?"
J got in the room after N finished his part. Uzi walked up to her and gave her a hug.
She needed that right now.
"Dear, that's Khan, right?"
"Yeah.. that's him."
J death glared Khan, but looks like he was too out of his mind to pay attention to that.
"You can walk over to the entrance yourself, right?"
"Yeah.. yeah I can."
"N! Head out to the entrance! V will be waiting for you there. I'll drag this waste of metal that should get a resignation letter from life there."
"Psst, J, you slipped corporate in again."
"Not the time."
And so, Uzi was left alone. She almost started to walk straight out but..
[WARNING: INTERNAL TEMPERATURE APPROACHING CRITICAL LEVELS]
Looks like the emotions she experienced were too much for Uzi after all. She started to overheat.
Atleast this is probably how this is supposed to work? She never had this happen before so.. maybe?
She quickly thought about what N said with the oil cooling them down, maybe drinking it will cool her down too?
She quickly ran up to one of her kills and drank from it. It was messy and oil was leaking everywhere, but she has no time to complain.
She quickly put it up to her mouth, feeling all the sweets and warmth from the oil. It did manage to cool her down for some time.
After drinking all of the oil form it, she decided to just bolt it to the entrance. If anything happens, better to be near her mother.
Uzi was running out of breath, and out of time. Her temperature continued to rise.
[WARNING: INTERNAL TEMPERATURE CRITICAL]
She's not gonna just pass out from this and be left alone on the floor.. right?
After reaching her limit Uzi finally saw what she was after: J standing, holding Khan by his collar and N fidgeting near V.
When J saw her, her voice rang out extremely concerned as Uzi was covered in oil by now and probably wasn't looking too good with her internals overheating now.
"U-I! A-- Y-U ---Y?"
Her audio systems were starting to stop responding too. Great.
"No--oo-Ouuu-"
She atleast managed to scramble out one extremely glitchy word.
...
And then she suddenly powered down.