Murder Drones Stories/Oneshots

Rumors of Love Are Met With Hate (Uzi x N mentioned)

Requested by ykmlmao
Angst, language, and happy-ish ending.
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Thad was in the makeshift lunchroom at his school. He sipped a cup of coolant. He swished it around in his cup, thinking. Moving something made him think better.

Thad just didn't understand. Nobody did. Uzi had been his best friend throughout school. Yet, he never expected anything like this. He couldn't say that anybody expected it.

For his entire generation he had been hiding behind these doors, because those monsters outside made it uninhabitable for them. Life inside the colony was barely safe in it of itself. A step outside was your fate sealed.

Except for Uzi. Thad had always admired her creativity and engineering skill. She was just... Different somehow. Well, clearly she was. After all, she was with that beast. Dating a disassembly drone.

He wasn't nearly as mad at her as most of the colony though. How could he know what he's heard is true anyway? Nobody liked Uzi that much before anyways, so they may just have wanted to bring her down after she gained popularity for killing one of the beasts.

Thad took another sip of the coolant from his cup. It was reserve coolant, and it wasn't as fresh as the coolant his parents talked about. Things were different during his parent's time as his age.

For one thing, the disassembly drones weren't there. The humans still were though, and the planet hadn't exploded yet either. Thad sighed, tuning into the conversations of his peers. "-yeah, but she left us for the thing that's been killing us!"

They were talking about Uzi.
"I wonder if she really likes that monster, or if its just a cruel fascination." Lizzy said snarkily.
"I bet she fits in with those things." Doll agreed.
"She's so fucking disgusting and weird!" Lizzy giggled.

Thad tuned back out of the conversation. He didn't want to hear them talk about his friend like that. What proof did they have that she's actually dating the murder drone anyways? Thad remembered the male murder drone placing Uzi on his shoulders suddenly.

But that doesn't mean anything! Does it? Thad shook his head, much to his peers confusion. He didn't notice though. When he started thinking, he couldn't stop.

Still though, why stay with those beasts at all? It is true that they've been hunting us and literally feeding on us. Every drone in the colony had some sort of horrific mental scar from these drones. Or a physical scar.

Thad drummed his fingers on the table, wondering how Uzi was doing now. Her dad had been the drone to keep the beasts out. He built the doors and kept us all safe. To be on the WDF was any young drone's dream.

Uzi was the daughter of the respected Khan Doorman. He kept the murder drones out, and she let them in. That was also true. But did she just let the murder drone in the colony, or did she let them  in her heart as well?

The same kind of beast that was responsible for Mrs. Doorman's disappearance; could Uzi really love that? He didn't exactly like the idea of his friend loving one of the beasts she'd set out to kill. What if it had her under some kind of control?

Surely she wouldn't fall for a beast like that on her own? But was it really a beast? He'd seen the murder drone fight with grace and skill, but he'd also seen it shoot hearts out of its cannon and pick Uzi up when she was hurt.

Could he really be as bad as people think? Well, yes... He could. But just because he could doesn't mean he is. Thad frowned. This thinking about the rumors was getting him nowhere.

He listened in on his peers once again.
"-so tall though! And Khan told us all about the vicious look on his face as he pinned Uzi to the wall." Doll said with a shiver.
"I bet that little whore enjoyed being pinned to the wall. Maybe that's why she's with the monster. Takes a monster to love a monster. Plus, nobody else would sink low enough to go after her." Lizzy spoke with a smug grin.
Doll giggled at this.

"Maybe he's not so bad?" Thad put his two cents into their conversation.
Doll and Lizzy looked disgusted at his remark.
"But he's a fucking monster who's killed so many of our own!" Lizzy burst out. Doll nodded in agreement with her friend.
"Maybe he's changed." Thad said with a shrug.
"You can't change a monster's programming, dumbass!" Doll yelled at him.

Thad shrugged once again and stood up to chug down the rest of the coolant. He set the cup down on the table with a certain harshness in the action that made the cup shake.

"I don't see either of you whores with someone. Even if he is a disassembly drone, he probably loves her. Can't say the same for you dumb-fucks." Thad snorted angrily and walked away from the table.

Why was he defending her? He had his doubts himself, after all. But he still couldn't stand to hear Uzi talked about like that, even if people said she was dating a murder drone. She was still his friend, right? He still cared about her anyways.

He chuckled to himself as he walked to his next class. It was fun to call Lizzy and Doll out like that. Sure, he tried to stay passive most of the time; sometimes a bit of aggression was for the best though.

Thad smiled; even if Uzi wasn't with the colony, he was still here to defend her. Maybe he should go and see her sometime. Just in case the disassembly drone wasn't as passive as he had persuaded himself to think.

And still, seeing Uzi would be nice. If he could find her. Thad wondered if she'd cone back. Probably not. Her dad seemed kind of shitty. He wanted to be there for her though, no matter what rumors the colony spread.

He just hoped the disassembly drone wasn't spreading her oil.