The Cabin Fever Labs

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It was deep inside the Cabin Fever labs, Uzi walked around cautiously. The walls, the floor, even the roof was covered in flesh, with occasional limbs of workers plastered on the walls. One worker head caught the attention of Uzi; it was an ordinary worker head, yes, but it has light neon green words on it's visors, with a cap facing the back of his head. The text read:
"Please! No!" With an image just below the text. On the bottom left side, was a worker arm, fingers stretched out in a terrified manner. In the middle of it, was Eldritch V, it's lobster claws aimed high. Uzi's eyes turned even more hollow, her arms reaching out to grasp the now-dead Thad's head. With some force, Uzi pulled the head out of it's confines, now getting a clear view of the image. Groaning in disgust, Uzi dropped it to the ground, taking a step back. Wow, Uzi, what a great way to pay respect to your dead friend.
Suddenly, a sound came from deep in the hallway, leading for Uzi to turn her head around. She saw... nothing.
Wait, is it...?
No...

Erasmus.

A shadow is casting from the hallway, illuminating Erasmus' outline. Uzi let out a shriek, materialising her wings, before flying down into another hallway. After she lost him, her legs drop to the ground, her wings still on her back. She cautiously walked around the hallway, taking steps forward. Her tail, Khan Jr, was looking around the hallway behind her, exchanging thoughts with Uzi. Uzi's digital eyes solid, rolling them playfully, clearly amused by what Khan Jr said to her.
After the Holy War began, N got Uzi to conduct another surgery, this time on her visor. At the time, it was cracked, barely displaying Uzi's eyes. After the solo-surgery, Uzi's visor was fixed.

(Also, yes, I decided to add that because I forgot that Uzi's visor was cracked in the first place.)

A sound came out again, this time from a hole in the wall. Uzi's eyes turn hollow again, stopping her steps. Her right hand turns into a SMG as she aims it at the hole, shaking slightly. A minute gone by, yet it felt like forever. Uzi felt something tight around her ankle. She looked down, to see a rope has been tightened around her left ankle. Immediately after looking down, the rope pulled away, dragging Uzi along with it.
Uzi began screaming, her SMG shooting around the place as she tried to yank the rope free from her ankle. The dragging stopped at the entrance of a hole in the ground, leaving Uzi to lay there, panting and groaning. Her SMG turned back to a hand, her other hand stroking her noggin.
After a few seconds of laying there, a figure jumped out. The figure landed on Uzi, her foot resting on Uzi's neck. Uzi's eyes turned hollow as she gazed up at the figure.
It was J.
Uzi couldn't believe it. She thought J was dead, after holding CYN off, giving Uzi and N enough time to retreat back to safety.
"W-Who, are you...?" Asked Uzi, despite knowing the obvious silhouette; the two pigtails on the side of her head, the black-and-yellow suit, the mini-skirt which N was secretly pervy on, and generally being the asshole she is.
Then, something clicked into Uzi's mind, "N-No, you're a hologram."
J simply gave Uzi a raised eyebrow, her eyes studying the now-changed appearance of Uzi; the skin-tight grey suit of the Atreides, the disassembly limbs salvaged from V's corpse, the purple hair which Uzi can just take off at any moment, and the beanie covering most of her hair. J lifts her foot off Uzi's neck, like if she needed to breathe to survive.
"You're alive. I'm surprised," blurts out J, her tone icy, as usual. Uzi chuckled, replying, "hey, if you can come back after I reduced your upper body to shit, I can come back too."
J didn't react, simply getting off Uzi and untying the rope off the worker-disassembly's left ankle. Uzi immediately gets, her back scratched from the dragging. Uzi groaned, feeling the cool air hit the cuts that now cover her back. J just couldn't care less.
J jumped down into the hole. Uzi stayed there, hesitating.
"jump down, you weirdly hot toaster!" Yelled out J.
Uzi rolls her now-solid eyes, walking over to the hole, before jumping down into it.

Meanwhile, down in another hallway, most likely east of the hallway Uzi was in, N was walking through his hallway like a coward. After leaving Uzi with Erasmus, N immediately regretted it, thinking that he had killed Uzi.
"Ugh, why did I do it?!" Asked N to himself, punching a hole in the wall just left of him. Just as he did so, he heard faint sobbing coming from a room just right of him. The disassembly's eyes immediately turn hollow, slowly turning his head. When his head faces the door, he saw nothing but pitch black.
"Right, don't be scary, don't be scary, don't be scary, don't be scary," muttered N under his breath, his right hand pointing to the room. It turned into a flashlight, and immediately turned on, illuminating the dark space. N slowly, but surely, walked in there. The sobbing became louder, making it clear that it was coming from one of the cubicles. N took a deep breath, trying to keep his fear at bay, while searching for the origins of the sobbings.
First cubicle.
Nothing.
Second cubicle.
Nothing again.
Third cubicle.
Still nothing.
Fourth cubicle.
N now sees what the sobbing is coming from.
V.
N's eyes immediately well up with tears, relieved that V is alive.
He doesn't know that the real V is dead.
The flashlight turned back into his hand as he got to his knees and hugged the doppelganger, tightly.
The sobbing immediately subsided, and Erasmus' figure loomed over N. Now, ever since Erasmus took control of the AbsoluteSolver, the holograms improved in quality, becoming more harder to identify. And V is one of them.
"Oh, N," said V, her head slowly moving up to meet N's eyes. Her eyes were hollow, and a sadistic grin became appearing on her lips.
"You're so sweet," continued the V hologram, before glitching, and then, disappearing. N fell onto the ground, giving Erasmus, who was watching the exchange, enough time to grasp N's ankle. After the Butlerian Jihad veteran grabbed N's ankle, the disassembly began screaming in fear, at the top of his none-existent lungs.
"Welcome home, buddy!" Said Erasmus, his tone of mock-innocence, his free hand reaching out for N's head. N was paralysed with fear, not doing anything to stop him.
Erasmus' hand touched N's head, which, immediately, N began to shake violently, his mind not in the current moment, but now at the Butlerian Jihad. The Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against all computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots, which spanned from 201 BG (Before Spacing Guild) to 108 BG. Erasmus' creator, Omnius, was a leading figure of the machines in the Jihad, along with Erasmus. While in the late years of the Machine Crusade, Erasmus created the AbsoluteSolver, nicknamed CYN, to refuge the remaining workers, who were soldiers of the machines, on the dead exoplanet of Copper 9. CYN was a master-manipulator, making the children of the workers to believe that, they were abandoned by the humans and their parent company, JCJenson.
(Sorry for the lore dump, I couldn't help myself.)
"See this?" Asked Erasmus, pointing to the sky, which was filled with starships, both human and machine, shooting each other down. They were on the battle of Giedi Prime, the homeworld of House Harkonnen.
N's eyes widen in shock, looking on to the sky. Giedi Prime orbits a black sun, which, interestingly, doesn't emit light, but absorbs it, giving the planet its black and white colour.
"You were on here once," said Erasmus, before drifting N's mind over ten thousand years after the battle of Giedi Prime, to year 10,163, before the events of the 10,191 revolution on Arrakis.
They were in a dimly light room, with a operating table in the middle. N and Erasmus stood there, not speaking a word. The, suddenly, the door opened, revealing a skinny, yet beautiful woman, with two pigtails on the sides of her head, and a black and white uniform.
"Ah! Here's Jane," said Erasmus, his arms spreading out. Jane was a member of the secret police on Giedi Prime, and was pretty much a asshole and workaholic, much like J.
As soon as the soon-to-be J gets down onto the operating table, Erasmus drifted N's mind over to a event which presumably happened after Jane got made into J.
The door opened again, but, instead of a female secret police officer, it was two Harkonnen home guards, each carrying the arms of a woman; she wore white overalls, and a muzzle was over her mouth, not doing anything to stop her constant growling and trying to break free from them.
"And then there's your former crush, Vee," said Erasmus, pointing on over to the figure of Vee. N was shocked, couldn't said anything, as Erasmus explained Vee's backstory. Vee used to be a slave for the Baron, causing her to become sadistic and mentally insane as she watched her fellow slaves get killed by the Baron when he's enraged.
As the home guards subdued her onto the chair and injected her with anesthesia, Erasmus drifted N's mind yet again, after the events of Vee transforming into V.
The door opened again, this time with a drugged one, being carried by two Harkonnen home guards, in the same position. The limp person wore a green jumpsuit, with the numbers '6164' on the left side of his chest, and he had a clean-shaven face, with short hair. Much like Eminem's.
"And there you are, Nathan!" Said Erasmus, pointing at the figure as he was strapped down to the operating table.
"Aren't you so cute when you are asleep?" Asked Erasmus, mocking, his voice turning to a baby-like one.
"Shut. Up," snapped N, his voice low and menacing. Erasmus chuckled slightly, replying, "alright, alright, sour-puss, I'll get you back in your artificial body."

Back at the hole, Uzi landed on the hard, cold floor, her legs buckling her weight
It was a room, not big, not small, filled with metal and uneven flesh, burying the heads of worker drones. There were some noticeable ones, like Lizzy, the Teacher, heck, even Ron! He was the one who let N, Uzi and Thad into their bunker after Uzi "banished" herself.
Facing her, were two worker drones. The one to the left, looked pretty old, with neon white eyes, an artificial moustache, and a light blue coat, with black fur. Khan Doorman.
"D-Dad...?" Asked Uzi, her voice trembling with emotions, tears forming in her eyes.
"I had a daughter?" Asked Khan, sarcastically. While raising Uzi, he wasn't exactly the best father, liking doors more than her own daughter. Heck, Uzi pondered to herself if he wasn't even related to her!
"Now's not the time, dad!" Replied Uzi, her voice slightly rising as she stomped her foot into the ground, like if she still was an angsty teen. She continued, "I'm currently having a emotional breakdown!"
"Hehe. Sorry," replied Khan, clearly acting like he ruined the moment. He opened his mouth again, but before he can say anything, her daughter ran up to him. She wraps her arms around him, pulling her father up off the ground, her head nuzzled in his chest. Workers were short, being around 4-5" foot tall.
Khan froze, his digital eyes hollowing as he felt himself being lifted off the ground by her significantly taller daughter, being aided by the "metamorphosis" she called it. When, in reality, was limb lengthening.
Uzi turned her head over to the drone on her right, instinctively letting go of her father. Khan let out a yelp as he fell to the ground, being ignored by Uzi's curious expression.
The drone had red, along with neon red eyes, and grey, torn clothes.
Uzi's eyes narrowed, thinking that it's Doll.
"I'm getting real tired of seeing this one get killed," blurted Uzi, pointing at the drone. Suddenly, the drone quickly took a step closer, biting down at her index finger. Uzi let out a pained yelp, giving the drone the signal to release it. Uzi's finger pulled away, her free hand cradling it like an injured bird.
"Ты меня путаешь с куклой! (You're getting me confused with Doll!)" Hissed the drone.
"Doll, huh?" Asked Uzi, folding her arms over her chest. Uzi can't speak Russian.
"Actually, that's Dizzy," corrected J, pointing at the drone.
"Да, это правда, (Yes, J is right,)" replied the drone. Dizzy continued on, "В любом случае, я дитя любви Лиззи и Долл. Я унаследовал АбсолютныйРешатель от Долл, конечно. (Anyway, I am the love child of Lizzy and Doll. I inherited the AbsoluteSolver from Doll, of course.)"
"Uh-huh?" Replied Uzi, not getting a word of what Dizzy was speaking. Doll's daughter rolled her eyes, before explaining, "Теперь, мы прятались от Эразма около тринадцати лет, и теперь мы собираемся вышвырнуть его из нее. Нам просто придется выманить его отсюда лабораторий-кают. (Now, we've been hiding from Erasmus for about thirteen years, and now we're gonna kick him out of here. We'll just have to lure him out of the Cabin Fever labs.)"


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