꧁༒☬𝓜𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓓𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼: 𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼☬༒꧂

𝙳𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟷(𝚂𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝙽𝚂𝙵𝚆)

Uzi was locked in her room for quite some time. She kept re-reading the part in the journal about reviving drones over and over again.

She had been fixated on this more than the pod. Granted she was was already interested in this theory and was taking a break after calculating the probability of completely fixing the pod and how long. And of course, she wouldn't be able to repair the pod for at least an entire decade—by herself anyway.

That and her argument with Thad meant that she had to revive drones or he would hate her for the rest of his life and she would have lost her dad and her crush, which was NOT something Uzi wanted.

Of course, N and even V were worried about her.

On the first day just a few minutes after she and Thad had that vicious verbal argument, Uzi had locked herself in her room and started sobbing.

When N tried to come in and help her she threw a pillow at him and told him to leave her alone. Hours later when she had calmed down enough he found Uzi looking through her journal she asked him if he could help her out with this. He reluctantly agreed thinking Uzi shouldn't be working right now. But seeing how important this was to her he helped out anyway after all good friends always help each other.

Uzi asked him to carefully retrieve a Worker Drone's memory card while she and V were going to retrieve a drone from the mall. Ideally, she wanted to work from scratch but V said and I quote.

"It would be faster to shove a memory card into one of those blanks, than for you to tinker around with their corpses and hope nothing breaks."

She did have a point the pod had taken so much of her time and wasting time would mean Thad would get angrier and angrier. Plus this information could save her entire colony and eliminate the fear of death so there was that too. So they all split up once Uzi was sure of what to do she was curious about how to find a drone's soul her whole life she thought they were all just rogue A.I. and nothing more.

Who knows how long finding a soul would take and what if she couldn't do it? Then all those interviews of her dad calling her a disappointment would be true. And all the hate she received would be justified.

And she deserved to-

But Uzi was pulled out of this train of thought by V. "Hey Copper-9 to shorty," V said while snapping her fingers in front of Uzi snapping her back to reality. She was staring at her rail gun the whole time.

"Huh. Oh sorry, what were you saying?"

Uzi must have been spacing out cause V had this skeptical look on her face even raising a single eyebrow. "I said which way to those blanks." Uzi promptly pointed her finger and replied, "We have to keep going straight once we pass the clothing section we just go through the hall on the right."

V nodded and walked in the direction she pointed in the two stopped at the fluorescent lights that flickered and the dark long walk V glanced at Uzi but she just walked forward she explained there was nothing but a bunch of mannequins and not to worry about. But unexpectedly the lights went out and V let out a big grin and...

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N had been searching the spire for an intact memory card which was harder than it looked. Most of the husks he encountered were severely damaged—especially by the head. 

The ones that weren't he gathered up and formed into a pile near the factory he gathered about fifty or so drones into a big clump. Limbs sticking out from the sides as N stared at their blank visors feeling a deep pit in his stomach. He felt immense guilt for pulling out the ones with flashing red triangles on the visor indicating they are still conscious they could be fixed but with all the damage afflicted on their bodies, they would never be the same maybe better if their consciousness just faded.