꧁༒☬𝓜𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓓𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼: 𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼☬༒꧂

ʜᴀʀᴅ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1

Thad always came back to give Uzi the parts she needed, sadly though this wasn't often. Even with pictures, it was hard to find where everything was. Part of it was because Uzi had been gone so long that everyone just kind of assumed she wasn't coming back or she just died and moved her stuff.

It also didn't help that most of her stuff had been placed in Khan's office which Thad despite having some connections didn't have clearance for a door of such high security. So all in all he had managed to get a measly two items out of twenty. Well at least getting to Uzi would be easy since the doors were still being repaired. Thad snuck out using the vents he dropped down when everyone went on break and ran out.

This time he left during break and had about half an hour to see Uzi before everyone started to get suspicious.

During his trip through the Walls of Terror, it had been a little too quiet. That is until he got closer to the landing pod and heard a lot of thumping and crashing sounds followed up by cursing.

He smelt the sweet yet, sour scent of lemons just as he was approaching the door inside. He saw Uzi. She was looking better these days but she does seem dizzy tripping over a box that was clearly in her sight. The number of swear words she used just now was another good example, that showed just how irritated she was becoming. Thad doesn't know why she was so upset just glad about that shoulder wound being gone.  

And to add to his worries, Uzi didn't take much put much effort into her appearance. She was wearing a long shirt with big puffy sleeves and a skull with crossbones and a black bow atop its head covered in pink polka dots. And instead of her usual hat, she was wearing a black and pink striped beanie and pink slippers. All in all, it seemed like a pretty comfortable get-up.

Except it was the middle of the afternoon. And judging by her attitude she wasn't dressed like this because she was trying to chill.

"Thad?" She fixed her hat and hair, the screen glitching slightly from the bump as she looked up at him. "Did you get the stuff I asked for?"

"Uh... kinda?" He pulled the two items out, a small speaker of some sort and a weird camera lens of some kind. "They moved a lot of stuff when they fixed the doors, so I couldn't find everything." He shrugged as she took the items. "Sorry."

She looked frustrated for a moment then she smiled but it felt, it looked forced for some reason. "No, no." She waved him off, already walking to the box she had just tripped over pulling out a tool a bit similar to pliers known as crimpers. "You got way more than I expected. Thank you so much!" Thad wasn't sure whether he should feel offended by that or not. 

"Sure. No problem."

Unsure what to do, he asked her if she needed any more help. She looked up for a moment then pointed to a pile of parts across the room, "If you can find anything useful in there put it in a separate pile." It just looked like a pile of junk and by its size, it would take a while to get through. He turned to Uzi who gave him a thumbs-up, then proceeded to open the panel at the front of the control station.

In the beginning, it was a tedious task only finding a few loose screws that seemed in working condition. 

Then he found some peculiar things in the pile like a wrench, one of Uzi's boots, and that charred photo. He knew the photo was important to her so why was it under some random pile? So he turned to Uzi who under the landing pod's control panel, was trying to put the speaker in place. The upper half of her body was inside the walls of the control panel.

"Uh, Uzi?" She popped her head out, "Yeah what is it? Did you find something?" Thad handed her the photo and Uzi's eyes lit up with glee.

"Wow, Thanks Thad I've been looking for this everywhere!" She took the photo of her family and of her when she was just a droneling holding it up in the light but then after looking at it long enough, she folded the picture in half so the right side wasn't visible anymore.