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Blood was everywhere, in the walls, roof, In his hands... his mouth.

He was terrified, what had he done? This wasn't him, what were this organic wings, what were this claws? He was scared, there was a human in front of him dead, dead by his hands...claws, he had ate his insides, guts, blood, lungs, heart, there was nothing left.It felt...good?, he started to laugh, tears falling down his visor, he was horrified but he couldnt stop.

He heard footsteps and turned around, who was it? Oh.. the drone he considered as his little sister was there, Cyn, she had a big thooty smille at her face, she was covered in blood and oil and she had a human body at her right hand.

"chuckle, oh... Big brother N, You did a great job here, walking walking" she said as she got near to him, he watched her with horror, what was happening? Did Cyn make him do this? What... Who was that at her hand?... It looked like a girl, whit a black dress, and a bow in her hair of the same color, her bones were getting out her skin, she was covered in blood, she was dead.

"Can you help me with the rest? Raise hand, don't worry this won't hurt" He watched as she raised her hand and a symbol appeard in it, by it, he started to feel a burning pain in his chest, like something was growing inside him, she then held his left arm with the symbol.

"Good night, big brother" he heard her say, as his arm was ripped apart .

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System analisys...

Charge level: 98%

Oil level: 26%

Internal temperature: warm

 Exiting sleep mode...

Startup sequence DD Unit: SD N 001-001-001

N woke up from his sleep, without even lettings the bulbs on his headband to turn on, he fell from his vampire-esque hanging position to the snow, N stayed there in pain from the impact, until he decided to sat up rubbing his head, he was getting used to this.. dreams? Nightmares? He didnt know, they started to appear more often, could they be a message?

N decided to stand up, when he hissed in pain because of a starting pain in his core as he did so, It was warm, but, not a conffort warm, like the ones you feel in a cozy hug or when the sun meets your skin in a sunny day (not that N could experience that), it was uncomfortable, it hurt.

Was it a headache?No, the pain was in his core, the impact he got when falling? No, it couldnt be, it burned, he thought, he regained his balance as he looked around him, watching the entrance of the spire, the sun was still in the sky, how many time did he sleep? 9 hours?, he looked to the pod when a message popped in the corner of his visor.

Msg from WD Unit: Uz1 Doorman. Unread: 4

Open messages? Yes> No

He clicked

-Hey N, i'm bored, wanna come and watch some anime?, it's saturday so i don't have school.

                                                                       -1:27pm

-N? Are ya there dude?

                                   -1:34pm

-N IF YOU DONT ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW IM GON- wait- OMRG I TOTALLY FORGOT YOU SLEEP ON DAY IM SO SORRY  

                                   -1:42pm

-we can watch some anime in the night, i don't have school tomorrow neither so i don't have to worry about waking up early, of course, if you want to.

   -1:43pm

-Answer when You see this, c ya

                                                      -1:43pm

He really didnt feel like answering, and he didnt even know why. His chassis was starting to feel like he was in fire and his breathing was becoming heavy, but he felt bad about leaving it there, so he answered.

 Hey Uzi, i'm awake heh, what're  You doin'?-

-3:53pm

Some seconds of silence passed, when he got an answer.

-N? Why are you awake this early?

                                                        -3:54pm

You know, we have to wake up early To have a productive day hahaha.. 

 -3:54pm

-Dude You literally can't do anything than staying in the pod, You'd burn with the sun

                                           -3:54pm

I.. didnt think about that..-

 -3:55pm

-C'mon spit out the soup, is something wrong?                                                                             -3:55pm

He stared at the message, what should he say? "Oh yeah, I woke up because of a nightmare and my body is starting to feel like its burning alive". He couldnt say that, he didnt want her to worry about him, he was typing his answer when a warning took all the place on his visor.

WARNING HIGH TEMP

Oil level: 17%

COOLANT REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY

oh, so it was that, why he was feeling like burning, he knew this would happen sooner ir later, he knew he needed oil to live, but since he met uzi he felt bad about the "killing all workers" thing, uzi showed him that they had feelings, family and lifes, and not only "unsentient toasters" like J always said to him, he seemed to be thinking to much about it, since another message came.

-N? Everything ok dude?

                                    -3:57pm

Yep! Why wouldnt it be?-

 -3:57pm  

-You seem a little spaced out, do You want me to go to the pod?

                                                     -3:58pm

Oh NO, he couldnt let her come, he didnt know what he was capable of, he didnt trust In himself, he didnt want something to happen to Uzi, and by him? No.

NO, i mean, no, i'm finEEeeEEEEeeEeEEe -

  -3:59pm

His message got cut off when he felt his body starting to feel like he was being burned alive horribly, he fell onto his knees while he held his coat where his core is meant to be, he was melting inside. He fell onto the snow, it melting whitout even meeting his metallic skin, the snow made a little pain go away, although he still felt like he was about to die, actually, he was.

-N?? Are You ok?!

                           -4:02pm -

N! please answer me!!

                                   -4:02pm

-OMRG, I'm going to the pod, wait for me

                                                                   -4:02pm

He wanted to answer, to make her stop, but, he actually wanted her here, with him, someone to hug him and tell him everything was going to be ok, but he couldnt let her, he didnt want anything to happen to her, but he couldnt even answer, his head was all fuzzy, he couldnt think straight, if she was coming, he had to do something, he sat up with difficulty, he held a hand-full of snow, and brought it to his head, melting instantly, it was barely working, he looked around all the corpses he and his teammates had done, could there be oil left in them? No it couldnt be, they were all dry up, and even if it were it'd be cold, and he liked his oil sweet and warm, he shaked his head, NO bad N!, no more killing thing! Uzi was coming and he couldnt be like this around her! Uzi-...was.. coming, his kind, warm, sweet frien-. NO! He couldnt do anything to Uzi he musn't, she was the only friend he had and he loved her more than anything he.. just no, it was unthinkable him doing something to her.

He stanted up with the strenght he barely had, and he looked again at the wall of corpses, he took a step , almost falling, he started walking towards them, when he was there he held one hand, taking his claws out and ripped it out, he brought it to his mouth and bit it, nothing, barely drips, it tasted so GOOD, HE NEEDED MORE.

Uzi was leaving her bedroom with her sick as hell Railgun, she took a look at the living room, his dad, he was there, drinking whatever workers drink, she needed to leave fast, but she had to search the "master key" how his dad called it, and most probbably it was in his dad's room. She walked directly to his room, and what would surely happen, his dad chimed in.

"Uzi? Are you going to my room?"he asked, with a concerned look

"heyyy daaaad, haha.. whatcha doin'?" she tried to distract him, and try not to look so suspicious, although it seemed like it wasnt working, he squinted his eyes, trying to figure out what his daughter was up to.

"Yeah, ummm, III left my collar in your room, i'm going for it, don't worry about it!" she said not even believing herself.

"Uzi you never enter my room, and you have your collar on" shit she thought, she touched her neck, it really was there, what an excuse, she gave him a big nervous smile.

"Hahaha! You found it! Thanks dad, i lost it and i though it could be in your room! But ittt wasssnnt, so now i'm goi- OMG IS THAT A MURDER DRONE?!" She shouted as she pointed behind her dad.

"WHERE?!" khan shouted turning around and looking for that murder drone her daughter yelled about, but, there was nothing. Uzi, in a fast move, put her hand inside his dad's bedroom, grabbed the key, and hid it behind her.

"oh, haha! False alarm, I really thought I saw one!" she said walking towards the exit, with her back facing away from him

"weeeeell, I think I'm leaving. I'm taking a walk, so, don't wait for me!" she said as she walked faster to the exit, his dad stoping her.

"where do You think you're going Young lady?!" She froze, omrg, she didnt have time for this.

"youre not leaving...whitout saying your ol' man where you're going!" he said with a big smile in his face and his hands in his hips. Really? Such an idiot

I alredy told you! I'm going for a walk!" she yelled, she needed to leave now! What if something had happened to N?!

"oh.. you did! Hahaha! Sorry, father's custom!" he said with a nervous smile, looking around for anything to give her, he had to be a responsible dad, and a responsible dad always cares about his daughter's health!

"take this for your walk" holding whatever was equivalent of a water bottle for workers

"You have to stay healthy, and a healthy teen is a happy teen! Hahaha!.." what had he said!? He was really trying, but he was just saying stupid things.

"ooookaaaaayyy.. thank you, I guess.." omg what a stupid idiot, she thought, alredy becoming impatient about the situation, she took the bottle, opened the door and left whitout saying anything, she closed the door behind her and let a sigh, was he really trying to be a good gather?, She felt kinda..bad, but, it wasnt the time for it! N was waiting for her, she had to hurry up!

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Cold... Too cold..no, this is not- MORE

N coughed the cold oil from his mouth, it didn't feel good he needed something more...He had torn apart like... 6 bodies? He didn't even know how he did that in his state, he was on his knees, looking at his hands covered in oil, all his body hurt, HE NEEDED IT TO STOP.

His vision began to fill whit error alerts, he brought his taloned hand that he couldn't retract earlier to his head, was he loosing his mind? He wouldn't doubt it.

Uzi was walking through the bunker halls the fastest she could until she arrived to the bunker door, beside it there was the guard of it, she didn't remember his name and she didn't actually care, she only needed to get out.

"Hey ya there! Uzi right?"he said, greeting her. He actually seemed a good guy.

"Ahh, yeah hi, I need to go out so im opening the door" She didn't have time and went straight to the point.

"Oh sure! Are you hanging out whit this little guy? Uuhhh I forgot it's name uhh" Uzi just made a face of displeasure, she didn't want to hear more.

"He's not an "it", his name's N, can you let me open the door now!?" She yelled in frustration.

"Oh, he, N, sure sorry Uzi haha.."he gave a nervous laugh while he moved to the side Uzi just passed the card thought the scanner and saw how the door opened, leaving the bunker.

"Be careful! And.. sorry 'bout that! Ahaha" that was the only thing he could say now, he just watched her leave.

STOPITSTOPITSTOPITSTOPITITHURTSITHURTSITHURTS

It was so much, he couldn't take it, he could tear his core right now but he didn't of course. The of the cold wind around him was his only comfort, maybe he could come closer?

Shaking he stood up, he was surprised he could still do it. He was about to turn around when he heard footsteps, oh no... He totally forgot about Uzi coming, he panicked hearing the footsteps get closer and ran to hide in some pile of corpses.

"N? I'm here!" She yelled, her only answer was the sound of the cold wind, she entered the spire looking around searching for any sign of her friend.

"N please answer me, I'm worried.. can you please, umm.." what could she say? She was really worried and didn't even know if he was here, what if someone made something to him? Or kidnaped? OR-!?

Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard a growl. She looked in the direction where the sound came, behind a pile of corpses she saw a familiar tail.

"...N, I know you're there, are- are you ok?" She asked nervously of what could've happened to him, why would her friend hide from her? It couldn't be something good...

She started to get closer, if he wasn't getting out she would look for him herself, she stopped her steps when she heard a another growl of pain.

"No! No..Don't- don't come c-closer" he yelled. He really sounded like he was in pain, worrying Uzi more.

"N you... You don't sound good, can you please at least, get out of there? Please" she needed to see him and look if at least he wasnt hurt.

He really wanted to get out and be with her but, he couldn't he was scared, scared of himself he tried eating another fist of snow, he needed to find a way to fix this.

"N I'm getting near, I really need to see whats wrong just calm down, ok? Whatever it's happening, it's gonna be ok" those words... He really wanted to hear that, he needed her saying that everything was ok, he needed her with him, tears started to appear in his visor while little sobs escaped from his voice box until he felt a soft touch in his shoulder, a warm touch but not a bad warm for him to feel worse about how he was burning, he wanted it closer.

"Are you... Crying? N what's wrong?..." She asked softly, she didn't even know that she could be that soft, she got those thoughts aside and payed attention to her friend who was covering his face away from her, giving her his back.

"N-no, don't-dont, go, y-you can't be h-ere" he said in a shaky voice, it was starting to be more difficult to talk since thoughts he didn't want there were drowning him

 DRINK, WARM OIL, KILL, HOT, TARGET, KILL, UZI, KILL,NO,KILLKILLKILLKILLKILLEATEATEATEAT

"You're... Burning.." she noticed with her hand in his shoulder, she walked around to face him and he only tried to hide more.

"N please, can you look at me?" Soft and calm voice, he really wanted this, hug her and stay there forever but his sobs only grew more.

"U-Uzi.. i-i don't w-want to hu-urt you, you have t-to go..." Why was that? Why would he hurt her? But one thing was sure she isn't leaving, something was wrong with his friend and she WILL figure it out.

She moved her hand closer to his face and took it in a soft touch, she saw how on the half of his face was the big "X" symbol and how in his other eye were tears, she also looked how one of his hands was gone replaced by his claw, she was about to say something when her hand in the murder drone's face started to feel really warm slowly becoming a burning feeling, she moved her hand to his chest, hurting with the slight touch, this made N crawl backwards.

"N-no, stay away! P-please" the boy warned, he saw her realization face, he didn't want her here, he didn't want her near, he didn't want her... With him...those thoughts only made N cry more, he really wanted her here.

"You...are overheating, that- that's why you're burning, that's why you're... Hiding- from me, N I can help you, you don't have to be scared" she needed him to trust her, they could get through this together she hated seeing him like this. She wasn't that good at comforting she didn't need it but now her friend was in front of her, having a hard moment, she couldn't just stay there and do nothing.

He wanted to believe her but he couldn't, he needed to find another way. He could smell her oil from here, he could hear how it went through all over her body and how easy it would be to TEAR HER APART AND- NO he shook his head and wished he could just make those thoughts disappear, but he couldn't, they were alway there along with the target mark that appeared everytime he dared to look at her.

His body shaked when another warning appeared in his visor.

WARNING: INTERNAL TEMPERATURE EXTREMELY HIGH. ENTERING MATTER COLLECTION PROTOCOL

 He grabbed his head looking away from her, he could smell her and it wasn't helping.

"Uzi, y-yyyyou ha-ve-ve to goAo, please" HE COULDN'T KILL HER HE COULDN'T, HE COULDN'T, HE COULDN'T, HE COULDN'T

Uzi didn't know what to feel, should she be afraid of her own friend? Was N... able to hurt her? It is a protocol after all, he couldn't control himself it was just instinct.She got up and took some steps back from him

"N, calm down stay there I'm leaving to... Get you some oil, hold on until I come back, ok?" She told him in a firm voice, she wanted him to know she was helping him, that he would be ok but she was still thinking where she could get oil and she didn't want him to worry.

N didn't response, still not facing her. She could hear his heavy breathing, was he still crying? She was about to say something when she smelled a burning smell and decided that she could not waste time, her friend's life was at stake.

And her's too.

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“C'mon! Just. Move!” Uzi was trying to move a mucket of oil. She was at the hospital, workers have lots of oil at hospitals since they use them for drones that had lost a considerable amount of oil, or if their oil needs a change. Uzi knew this, and thought the best option was to get some for her friend, but this became a problem when she realized the mucket was too heavy for her to move it. And the small canisters were in another room with a bunch of drones, so she couldn't enter for some. she had already done a dangerous trip while trying to get in the storage without someone spotting her so she didn't want to risk.

“AAAAHH! WHY DONT YOU JUST MOVE!” She shouted, holding her head in annoyance, when she felt something. It was something under her beanie, the bottle her dad gave her! She had forgot she put it in there. She got it out with a smirk in her face. She dropped all the liquid in the inside to the floor and filled the bottle to the top with oil and closed it, she got it! Now she needed to get out of there.

She opened the door and looked side to side, no one in view, she walked while crouched to a desk, and looked around the room, there were some drones talking and behind a lady with a baby was the door.
Ok she just needs to put the bottle in her beanie and g-

“What are you doing here?” She heard, turning around to look behind her a doctor, he had a confused look. “What is tha- Hey!” He yelled when Uzi started to run towards the door, opening it she found herself in a hallway, far away she looked the exit. “Hey you don't have permission to take that!” In theory she had took that oil illegally, but it was for good! Obviously she couldn't tell him ‘’oh, is for my disassembly drone friend who is about to die and if I don't help him he's gonna kill me!’.

She opened the exit door but tripped falling to the floor, she looked behind her and saw the doctor getting near. “Girl give me back that bottle or I'll have to call the police” he looked annoyed, it isn't really funny some kid robbing in your work.

“Bite me!” she yelled, and with that he launched himself towards her, her eyes widened at that and covered her face with her arm.
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“Hey, open the door!” She heard. She turned to look and saw that the door looked like it had been crashed. Her arm was raised with that strange symbol that appeared at her eye.

“Kid open the door right now!” She heard again, the doctor was hitting at the door violently. She got up, with her legs trembling about what had just happened she started to go backwards.”come here right now! Don't you dare!” His voice faded while she ran to the gate door.

The snow crouched beneath her feet, she ran as fast as her body letted her, getting more tired as the sun touched her metallic skin. In her face spreading a glad look as she saw the spire getting visible, she slowed her move when she arrived the entrance. She popped her head inside the spire looking for her friend, when she couldn't find him, she entered.

“N, I'm back!” She looked at where N used to be when she left, he wasn't there. She remembered he could be in his murder-mode. a protocol… that was meant to kill her, so she had to be prepared to anything that could happen.

She was about to take another step, a metallic sound stopping her. She looked around searching where that sound came from, she knew, she knew he was there. She wasn't scared of N, she didn't even know what she was scared about, but that wasn't N.

“Here! I brought you oi- Ah!” she was cut when N launched himself Infront of Uzi, he raised his claws and was about to tear her apart when she went backwards and landed outside the spire, touching the sun, dropping the bottle of oil she had in her hand.

N hissed when he touched the sun rays and went backwards, not quitting his gaze off Uzi.
The only thing between them being the light difference, Uzi stood up and looked at the bottle of oil she dropped, it was in N’s side, who was in a crouch position waiting for her to get near and satiate his hunger with her.

“N?... Are you still in there?..”she said with a pleading look, her friend… this wasn't her friend. He looked in pain, with a heavy breathing. He didn't have the characteristic “X”, but the solver symbol. “I brought you oil… there it is, behind you. Take it”

N didnt even flinch, he kept hissing now and then while his tail moved harshly back and fort. She didn't know if he could even hear her, and if he did, he wouldnt have take the bottle of oil since she remembered he said he liked his oil warm and sweet and the one she brought was cold and bitter.

She looked at her friend, his visor reflecting her sad face. “N It's me, Uzi. Your friend, do you remember me?” he only growled once more, the only thing in his head was kill, eat, target. The air had a burn smell. She had to do something or he was going to die.

She took her (sick as hell!) Railgun from her back and took it firmly with both hands, looking around for the possibilities: she had to take the bottle of oil and give it to him, simple!

Objective: save her friend

Obstacle: her friend

She got nearer and got in front of him. “I'm sorry N.” She said, before slapping him with her railgun, not to hard but enough to make a crack in his visor that he couldn't regenerate, making him fall to the snow while holding the wound in his face.

She ran and grabbed the bottle of oil from the floor and turned around to see her friend, only to find out that he wasn't there anymore. She panicked and looked around holding her railgun ready to shoot. She could hear him, lurking in the dark and flying through the spire, and then, it stopped.

“....”

“N?...”

She said before hearing a giggle behind her, she turned around to see N launching himself towards her, she did the only thing she could. shoot. She saw the green light getting bigger, she shut her eyes and heard a growl. When she opened them, she saw a crouched N with a missing part of his torso taking with it his left arm and wing. She had to take the opportunity, so she ran to his back and made him bite her railgun while she held on it, so his jaw was trapped in her weapon and she was holding tight on it so he couldn't reach her as she was behind him.

N was fighting against her grip, trying to hit her and escape from her but with an arm and wing missing was more difficult, so he was just a bunch of hisses and growls. Uzi was using all the strength she had, as N was stronger than her even when he didn't have an arm. Although she was getting some scratches from his wing and sometimes his hand would reach the side of her head.

“N Stop!” She shouted, N didn't seem to be hearing. “N please! You know you aren't like this, you don't want to do this!” she was becoming desperate, what could she do? If she letted go off him he would kill her, and she couldn't be like that forever, she could feel the warmness emitting from him.

“ I..I don't know if you can hear me, but, I'm here.. I'm with you. Everything is going to be alright. I know you're scared, you don't deserve anything that's happening to you but I'm going to be with you in anything, together. I promise.”

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She felt him stop for a moment before hearing a sob. “N..?”
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“U-UZi..I-I-Im soRry-Y” he said with a broken and glitched voice, to let the solver symbol from his visor disappear and let his body fall limp in Uzi’s arms.

“N?”

“N!?”

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*cough*

*cough, cough*

“I’m here…”

N felt how a liquid started to go down his throat, he was having trouble accepting it, so he did the only thing he could: he started to cough it out, trying to get that out of him.

“Hey! No no… it’s ok, drink.”

that sweet voice.. he really wanted to know where that voice came from, he couldn’t remember everything, all his head fuzzy.
He could feel his visor broken and the bulbs on his head not functioning. He was making a big effort on knowing what was happening and where he was, and then he felt it: oil, the sweet taste of oil in his mouth, falling directly to his mouth, he accepted it from wherever it was coming from.

He could feel warmness from his core, slowly dissipating as he drank. He got enough energy to heal his broken visor, being able to slowly open his eyes and see a… ¿shadow?

“What?…” he said, starting to feel nervous about what was happening.

“Hey… how are you feeling?..” the shadow said, cupping his face on their hand

“D-don’t…!” He tried to yell and sit by himself since he was in this shadow’s lap, being stopped by the figure.

“No! N, calm down! It’s me…” he heard before his visor started glitching, when it stopped he opened his eyes again seeing…

“U-uzi..!” What was she doing here!? She shouldn’t be here! What had happened, he questioned. It was dangerous for… her. Oh no..

“Uzi.. y-your face..!” She had a scar leaking oil from her face, he tried to cup her face but she stopped him grabbing his arm.

“I’m ok N.. how are you felling?”

He looked at her with widened but dazed eyes still getting what was happening, fearing the worst. “I-I.. I did that.. d-didn’t I?..” he asked with shaky voice, getting nauseous about the fact that what was inside his stomach was hers.

“Don’t worry, you didn’t do anything bad. I brought that oil by myself from the bunker”
Oh thanks robo-god, he thought. He would NEVER forgive himself if something happened to her. He could feel his feet again after them being all sore, he started to crawl backwards away from her before stand up. “I-I… I’m sorry, Uzi, I-“ “shut it! The only thing you should be sorry for is about you not eating what you have to and possibly die!” She yelled before he could finish, he saw her with wide eyes. “You.. Uzi.. no, you don’t understand!” He shouted trying to explain himself, he could not be forgiven, this was all his fault!

“No! You don’t understand, I was about to lose you, you were about to die!” Her voice was starting to feel shaky, but she did everything to not show it. “And!? Uzi I could’ve killed you!” “That’s not the point! You should no-“ “UZI IM A MONSTER!”

“….”

silence filled the air, Uzi opened her mouth to close it again, she wanted to argue from that, but she knew what N felt and it would be useless, so she just let him talk with a sad expression.

“I’m just a walking killing machine! Do you think I have another purpose All I am: an eldritch monster.. that giant worm J became and what came out of her? I can become that at any moment!.. that’s inside me, do you think I’m normal!? IM HERE TO KILL YOU!”

His legs struggled to work again, giving up and falling to his knees, he trapped them in a hug before releasing his wings and covering himself while sobs escaped him, struggling to breathe.

Uzi saw all of this with horror drew on her face, she was still, watching how N broke like that, hearing the crying mess he was. She wanted to say something, tell him it wasn’t true, but she knew he was too broken to believe her.

N heard steps, but refused to release his wings. After some seconds, he felt how someone sat beside him. The only sound being the hum from the cold wind.

“Remember Doll?” She said, a whisper, but loud enough for him to listen. His wings flinched, a signal that he was listening.

“She was actually a good worker, beside her bullying me… she actually was another innocent drone. But… although that, she started killing everyone, searching the way on how to kill us.” She said in a soft tone, a comforting one even.
N didn’t get where she was going, just listening, trying to hold the tears threatening to fall down his visor.

“She’s a worker drone, worker drones don’t have weapons, guns, swords, and even without having them she did all of that. She switched “bands” going against what she’s meant to do and be, I know she… had her past but, that doesn’t give her the right to hurt innocent people” she explained “my point is… you might be a drone to disassemble, but, that doesn’t mean it’s your destiny, you might want to be a kind robot, go against everything you are made for, and be your true self”

N’s eyes went wide, was she really serious? It was… all confusing for him, wasn’t she mad at him? Of all he is, after yelling at her, after being so stupid…

He sniffed once again and wiped some of his tears “I’m created to kill… that won’t change”

She looked at him “mmm.. maybe…” she said before crawling so she would be crouched in front of him and take the sides of his wings to move them and look him at the eyes “but you know that’s not what I mean” she said with a soft smile, her gaze moving through his teary face.

“Are you…not leaving?…” he said looking at her, his messy frame trying to become smaller. “N…”
“Forget it! Not important…” he yelled making her step back as he closed his wings once again. Uzi stayed there in front of him, searching the words. “Before we met.. everyone looked at me like a freak, someone strange or out of it…I know how you feel, everyone looking at you like a monster, maybe we look like one, but we are not one” she said while her arms were around her legs. “And then you came in my life, I think if you weren’t here with me I would be dead…” she chuckled, hiding how she felt before they met, and what she could’ve done… “N you’re the sweetest drone I’ve ever met, and… although of all you did, you don’t deserve pain. Pain was the one that made you do all those things on the first place. You are a bunch of love, that by himself, would NEVER EVER do those things”

Uzi heard the noise of metal against metal, she raised her head and saw N uncovering his wings from him, he gave her a sad expression, but filled with happiness at the same time, tears still on his optics. He opened his wings more and opened his arms, making a ‘come here’ movement. Uzi obliged, sitting between his legs and resting the back of her head on his chest, N’s wings still covering them while he hugged her, resting his head on her shoulder.

“Thank you…” she heard, even that his head was beside her head, it was barely a whisper. “You deserve everything N…” she whispered, just to let the sound of the wind fill their optics.