Designation: Uzi [DISCONTINUED]

Is That.. A Child?

N was busy drinking oil from one of his kills, when he heard V calling out to him. "N, there's another over here!" She yelled, pointing to a male Worker Drone. N flew after him as they ran, until he suddenly turned around, put something up to his face and threw it at him. N caught it, looking at the round object while the Drone ran away. When N finally looked up from the object the drone had already ran off. "Biscuits." He muttered, turning around to head back to V and J as we finished up our spree.

"Yo, N? What ya got there?" V asked, pointing at the object the Worker Drone threw at him. He looked down at it again, and jumped as it suddenly turned on. "Equity partnership.. is that a child? V cursed. "Wow N. Didn't expect you to knock a Worker of all Drones?"

N blushed, looking between the child and V. "W- what?! No! Some worker threw it at me when I was chasing them." He stuttered, lifting up the droneling and looking it in its eyes. They were a vibrant purple.

"So.. what do we do with it? Is it edible?" V said, an 'X' appearing on her screen and she tried to grab the child. The 'X' disappeared as N moved the droneling from her grasp. She glared at him half-heartedly before leaning on the nearest wall with a bored expression. "You're no fun."

N glared back at V. "We're not eating a droneling. They don't know any better. We can repurpose them. Besides, I don't think they house much oil." He explained, gently holding the droneling to his ear and shaking it. "Nope. Maybe a arms worth."

"What do we do with it then? I don't know anything about children." V said, poking the droneling.

"I.. don't know. How about we ask J?" N said, looking around for J.

"Ask J what?" Another voice came from behind him, and he turned to see J with her arms crossed, landing on the ground as she spoke. "What in equity is that?" She said, noticing the droneling and pointing at it with a disgusted expression.

"I swear, y'all have a cussing issue. And it's a child. Me and V don't know what to do about it." N said, holding the droneling so J could see it clearly. The droneling suddenly began crying, and N jumped, almost dropping it. "What is it.. how do I make it stop?!" He said, shaking it violently, which apparently did not help at all. In fact it made it worse.

"Obviously not like that, you toaster!" J said, taking it from N. "Don't you remember taking care of human children during our time at JcJenson? Dronelings were designed to act like a replica of them." J then started cradling the child 'til it stopped and then handed it back to N. "There, but that's the only time I'm doing that. It's your responsibility now. It better not imprint on me, or I will kill it. Now let's go, we're done here." J said, spreading her wings and flying away towards the pod. V followed her, and N repositioned the droneling before following after them.

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"So.. what're you going to name it?" V asked, watching as N carefully sat the child down onto a pile of blankets. N shrugged.

"I don't know. If a Worker threw it at me, maybe it already has one? Perhaps someone wrote it somewhere." He said, picking up the droneling and turning it all sorts of directions til he found a sticker. On the sticker it was written 'Uzi Doorman: Female'. "So that's her name! Uzi! It's nice. Designation Uzi!" N said gleefully, turning the drone to face him and poking it where it's nose would be if it were human.

"Mm, I guess it's okay. Isn't Uzi like.. a gun? Who names their child after a gun." V said, crouching down to eye-level with the child as N set it back down. It closed its eyes in a cheerful way, and V smirked. N smiled at her before putting a blanket over everything but Uzi's visor. "What do we do when it's done being a droneling, exactly? They were designed to replicate human children, but human children grow naturally. Drones can't." V asked, leaning against a wall.

"Oh.. right. I hadn't thought about that part." N said nervously, reaching a hand behind his neck as a human does when they're stressed. "Well.. I suppose we could ask the company for a spare female drone body? It would take a few months to get here but it would be in time for her development, right?" N suggested hopefully, looking at V for confirmation.

"I suppose that could work, but what would we tell them if they asked? We can't just go 'Oh yeah, a Worker threw their child at us and so we decided to raise it.' Well, actually. I suppose we could, but I don't think they'd enjoy that all too much." V said, shrugging and switching her hands out for claws, looking at them like a young female human does when their nails are done. "But do what you'd like, N." She shrugged, continuing to study her nails.

"Hm.." N hummed, sitting down on a chair. He went silent for a hot moment, seemingly dazed off before he jumped. "V, come here." He said, grabbing V's hand as she walked over to him. She stood still for a moment, then looked at N.

"So, they have a policy for dronelings? Why weren't we ever aware of that." V asked, running through the policy again.

JCJENSON : DRONELINGS POLICY 429

IF A DISASSEMBLY DRONE HAPPENS TO COME ACROSS A WORKER DRONELING, THEY HAVE TWO OPTIONS.

1. RID OF IT
2. TAKE IT IN

IF A DISASSEMBLY DRONE CHOOSES TO TAKE IN A DRONELING, THEY ARE TO TEACH IT THE WAYS OF JCJENSON. WHEN DRONELINGS ARE READY TO TRANSFER TO 'ADULT' DRONES, DRONES ARE TO IMPORT THE CODING INTO A DISASSEMBLY DRONE HARDWARE. SPARE DISASSEMBLY BODIES ARE LOCATED IN THE HATCH UNDER THE CONTROL PANEL OF A DISASSEMBLY DRONES LANDING POD. JCJENSON IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MALFUNCTIONS OR DAMAGED DRONE BODIES. DISASSEMBLY DRONES ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING DRONELINGS AND FEEDING THEM.

SIGNED, M. JENSON.

"Well, at least we know what to do with the droneling." N said, opening the hatch below the control panel to reveal 2 spare Disassembly Drone hardwares. "And there's one for each gender, so they can choose which physical form they prefer." He inferred, closing the hatch and looking at V.

"Indeed. Well, I'm heading to sleep mode. Night N, night child." V said, opening the pod and flying to the top of the corpse spire.

"Her name is Uzi!" N yelled out to her, closing the pod door. He looked at Uzi, picking her up and holding her to his chest, cradling her to sleep.

A/N
We love father N :)