Chapter 2: Scavenging

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(A/N: have fun reading this!)

Uzi's night passed very peacefully...Maybe it was because she simply fainted and didn't go to sleep normally. Then after a few hours the purple-haired drone woke up from her 'slumber' and imagine the drone's surprise when the first thing she saw after a not-so-long coma was a human skeleton. Centimeters from her visor.

Naturally the lavender eyed drone didn't expect that so she let out a short scream, jumping up from her spot as if burned. Uzi, however, quickly came to her senses, immediately overwhelmed by the memories and feelings of yesterday.
Then she also felt pain in the right side of her head, where the bandage was still on, and also in both of her hands, but mainly in the right one from the constant of hitting that damn door like crazy. She looked at her more painful hand. There was dried oil there and her pinky was completely unrecognizable. She cursed under her breath, another point to add to her wonderful plan. Don't get her wrong, the plan was good, but honestly, she doubted she'd be able to do it all in one day...

Exactly! Day! Then she remembered, she was unconscious for Robo-god knows how long. When she realised that, Uzi wanted to see what time it was... She could have been asleep for minutes, hours and even days, or better yet, a whole month... That seemed the least probable, but it was still a possibility!
After the thought came to her mind, she checked her internal clock. 16 Hours. She was unconscious for 16 whole hours!

- The purple-haired drone sighed. - "Bite me... Now my plan has to be delayed... Or split... Well... I think it's best to split it... But what to do first?..." - She wondered out loud. Then decided.

- "I think I have to make this bunker safe for starters, so I don't get murdered... Now... Where is that blueprint my... dad... left me?" - Uzi began looking around her new base and she quickly spotted both her Railgun and the blueprint. She dusted it off and spread it out over its entire volume. She had a knack for building and creating, but she had never tried to make doors, only weapons.

- "Ughhhhh... Guess I'll have to teach myself to do more things than just guns and stuff... Great... It can't be that hard, can it?" - The lavender eyed drone looked at the requirements to build those god damn doors. Lucky for her, all things she needed could be found after just a few hours of scavenging!

- The short drone grimmanced. - "Well, it could be lot worse... Just some scraps of metal... Welding machine, some electricity to connect it, pneumatic mechanisms such as actuators, valves, etc... Yeah... Fun..." - Then an idea struck her, just as lightning strikes a tall tree in the middle of a clearing during a raging storm. - "Wait a minute... I can look for the last part for my 'Sick as hell Railgun'! Oh hell yeah!" - With newfound vigor, she decided to finally get out of her bunker.

Uzi tried opening the door, which she had hard time doing so. The blizzard had been going on for a few hours since she fell unconscious and there was so much snow that it was up knees, which meant hard time coming out of there. The purple-haired drone cumulated all her willpower ignoring the pain of her whole body and pushed the door with all her might and she finally managed to get out.

There was so much snow outside, but the blizzard was already gone. Uzi grumbled to herself. Scavenger hunt conditions have deteriorated rapidly. How on earth will she find anything!? Will she dig around in the snow and lose the efficiency of her robotic fingers!? No.  Not only is she in exile, but her right visor and right hand, especially her pinky, still haven't healed properly. Her damn luck.

- "Oh well, I brought this on myself... Except no. If only my dad had stood up to all of them... Or maybe it really is my fault? Am I really that dangerous? My gun didn't even go off! It did explode though, but I didn't fire the gun... And I'm talking to myself like I'm crazy... Stop it." - Uzi slapped herself across the visor which seemed to work... For now at least. With that she left her 'safe zhone' and headed out to make her plan a reality.

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The short drone was walking for at least a few hours, her scavenge hunt never ending, but lucky for her, Uzi found most of the things she needed! Some electric devices, some huge metal chunks, good quality welding machine and soldering iron, valves and actuators, and most importantly, the last part to finally finish her gun, and better yet, she found two of those things! She could use one of those little green glowing objects for her 'Sick as hell Railgun' and the second one get the energy to power up her whole smallish bunker and the bast energy would never drain! Her luck!

Uzi was now in a better mood than before, since the lavender eyed drone finally got the thing she wanted for so long! And even if she doesn't finish building those doors on time, she'll at least have something to defend herself with.

Something Uzi also found was that near her bunker there was a huge mall and that meant she wanted to explore every single bit of the whole thing and let me tell you, it was HUGE. So many stores, so many choices...The other non related thing to building doors she found was a first aid kit, although most of the things in it were useless, because they were intended for human use, and she was definitely not a human, But at least she found some bandages which she used immediately, wrapping them around her Pinky.

That didn't mean there weren't any throwbacks... The reason she was looking for the bandages in the first place was that because of her little 'hunt' some of the wounds on her hand reopened and she had to cover them up as quickly as possible. Besides hurting in her hands and arms, which appeared because she was carrying everything with her and some of these things were definitely not light, her legs and head were sore too.
Her legs were hurting for obvious reasons, her head on the other hand from the constant cauldron of thoughts that occupied her mind.
It was still a harsh reality to live in. To be left for dead because what else can she call it!? The murder drones are an unstoppable force for a mere worker and all of them knew that, but they still decided to banish her. She was the first and probably last drone to be kicked out of that damn colony...

Uzi stopped in her tracks. No. She can't think that. The purple-haired drone had a plan and she couldn't let her stupid feelings stop her from achieving it... Speaking of her plan...
The lavender eyed drone finally got into her own bunker and she was met with the same depressing interior. Uzi sighed and decided that after she built those doors, she would immediately clean the place up and make a total makeover, but for now, her safety was her priority and she closed her normal door to work on the safe ones.

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It took less time than she expected it would! She was way more than half way done, and although it was a great progress it still wasn't enough for the night not to come... This means that murder drones will soon start their wicked hunt and she was their delightful prey, and because the blizzard stopped hours ago, the tracks she left will be very visible.

Although the door wasn't finished yet, her Railgun was. The item that had somewhat caused her exile was her only form of defense for now. How ironic.

Even if the murder drones get there she is ready to defend herself. She was preparing for this moment for the longest time and she was ready to show literally everyone that she was ready to bite back... And she doubtlessly will...

(A/N: I somehow still have the motivation...)

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