#*feral uzi noises*

[sapphirethefluffymewtwo]

N and Uzi as mews what will they dooooo

One is angry and one is just confused

[tomahachi12]

I got a question about the Virus AU

After being infected, can Disassembly/Solver Drones still speak despite their feral thoughts? Or is it ALL feral?

It's mostly all feral.

No thoughts, heads empty.

When they're infected with the Virus, they can't talk. They still understand some words if someone if talking to them, but they can't answer, at least not coherently.

It's all barks, meows, growls, hisses, squeaks and whatever other noises they make.

They can sometimes repeat words, but it isn't very clear. N does this a lot when Uzi talks to him.

J is the most vocal out of all of them. She can mimic voices to repeat words or phrases, but that's all it really is, just a repeated audio playback.

When she's not mimicking someone's voice, she communicates with tweets, chirps and whistles, like a songbird.

[dronebiscuitbat]

Oil is Thicker the Blood (Part 60)

All she could see was the blurry grey of the bunker walls, her arms and legs moving without her input in a four limbed gallop across the floor of the bunker, all attempts to stop herself lead to such agonizing pain that she'd had to give up the fight for control.

Her tail cracked like a whip behind her, extending her spines as it looked around behind her and ahead of her. It was still early… people were still in their homes asleep, or getting ready to go to work.

Drool pooled out of her mouth as she stopped for a moment, the solver symbol across the whole of her visor, her audio receptors tuned to catch the smallest noise a drone could make.

Need food, can't stop, need food.

Disjointed thoughts entered her head while her consciousness took a back seat, only being able to watch from behind her visor as her body lept up into the ventilation system like a cat into a tree.

She sniffed, picking up the scent of dust that caused her to sneeze before shaking her head, she moved through the vents quickly, until she was able to hear a noise.

“And like… he was being so stupid I just had to tell him!” It was Lizzy’s voice, muffled slightly by how high up she was, and she growled softly before another voice graced her ears.

“I dunno Liz, Thad was just trying to be helpful… in his own dumb way.” It was V, and Uzi peered down from the vents with her head cocked.

Lizzy was laying on the bed, V was behind her, braiding her long hair, her tail coiled around Lizzy’s leg. Uzi sniffed.

Oil and old parchment, that was V. Marked as a packmate in her systems. The accompanied scent of cherries and coolant had to be Lizzy… also marked as a packmate, affiliated as V's mate. She huffed and moved on.

It was strange, being a passenger in your own body, even stranger was registering thoughts that didn't seem to come from her, she wasn't even aware of a ‘packmate’ system until her… body? solver possessed self? went through and checked it.

There were definitely thought processes happening though, a method. Not just a feral, all consuming killing spree.

More voices…

“Sorry… I'm not interested.”

“Aww come on…”

“No. Chloe.”

Thad, that was a voice she recognized, checking through her system again, she was half-surprised to find he was listed as a packmate as well. But the other one… the other one definitely wasn't.

“You assaulted one of my freinds, I'm not going with you to a party.” Thad's voice was firm and slightly irritated, a scent of fresh grass and machine grease hit her, yup… definitely Thad, he even had to smell athletic.

“Ugh. Fine… you're no fun.”

“Not sure we have the same definition of fun.” He replied harshly, they were right outside Thad's apartment, peering down out of the vent, he had a backpack slung over his shoulder, clearly about to head to school.

Chloe just scoffed and began to walk away, throwing her head back in a classic, mean girl fashion, Thad just rolled his eyes and started to walk in another direction, grumbling something about “not getting enough sleep for this.”

Uzi crept through the vents, following Chloe as she walked through the halls, she had school too though… so where was she going?

Her body didn't seem to care though, [Target Found] displayed on her screen and she gave a manic grin as she stalked her prey, waiting for the perfect moment…

Finally, she stopped in a section of poorly lit bunker, leaning on a section of wall while looking down at her phone, tapping away.

And that's when she dropped from the ceiling, landing silently to the left of her, in the darkest area of the hall, Chloe didn't even look up, just continued to look down at her phone.

Then, in the next second, with a flick of her tail. Chloe was pinned to the wall by a dozen sharp spines, a screech leaving her as the phone tumbled out of her hands and she was slammed into the steel wall with a resounding bang.

Her breath picked up as she looked at her attacker, a tail coming up to wrap around her wrists and trap her arms above her head, Uzi's breath was hot, coming out in puffs of steam that brushed Chloe's face, her mouth open and saliva dripping off her glistening fangs and onto the floor.

“Oh shit-oh shit! Uzi?! Fuck- I, I'll leave N alone! Is that what this is about?” She thrashed a bit, the spines digging her clothing into the wall, but she was completely trapped.

“L-let me go!” Uzi grew closer, a twisted smile on her face as a long, grey tongue exited her mouth, Chloe's eyes went hollow at she caught a good look at her open maw, gulping.

Within, Uzi was cackling, of all the drones to get in her way when she wasn't in control, it was this bitch. Part of her didn't even really feel bad about it either… another part didn't actually want to kill her, but if it had to be anyone…

Her maw went in closer to her neck, causing her chosen victim to squirm in fear, she was so close now, another swift movement and-

Something big and heavy grabbed her from behind, causing an animalistic yelp to escape her as she was pulled off her prey. She growled and kicked as Chloe ripped herself off the wall and got away. She whipped around, ready to sink her teeth into whoever had interrupted her hunt.

She came face to face with gold.

‘Serial Destination N; Mate, Packmate, Leader.’ came up in her systems and her body immediately retracted her claws and snapped her mouth shut, it whimpered, curling in on itself.

“It's okay, it's okay… here.” He pushed something in her direction, and a breif sniff reveled it was an entire roll of pure titanium, her body lept for it, taking a huge chunk out of it and purring softly.

N stroked her back in the middle of the hallway as she took more bites of it, tearing into it like some wild dog, he moved more things in her direction, a brick of silicone, and a ball of rubber.

As she ate, the solver symbol flickered out and replaced with her purple eyelights, though she didn't stop eating… she was too hungry for that.

She didn't know where N had gotten these, and she didn't know how he knew this was what she needed, but as she put the last peice of rubber in her mouth she sighed, the hunger satiated for the first time since it had started

She looked up at N after there wasn't a speck of raw material left, processing what the hell just happened.

She'd lost control… again. And this time she had nearly killed someone. Sure, it was Chloe, but it could have easily been someone else.

“N…” She started, but he stopped her by scooping her up and placing a kiss on the side of her head.

“Don't… you're okay. You didn't kill anyone, and I can go get more if you get hungry again.” He nuzzled her cheek and she found herself too tired to argue, a mixture of her bodies physical activity and the sudden intake of material.

“I'll take us home. And I think we need to do another scan, I have… a theory.”

“You have a theory? Did we switch places?” She teased, unable to help herself, he hummed, smiling slightly.

“I do have moments.”

When they got back to the apartment, N laid her on the bed gently, and Uzi was beginning to get used to being carried around…

N cleared the data on the scanner and held it over her midsection, letting it re-map the area over several minutes, and with it, what he was looking for.

The small ball of mass that had been there before was now slightly larger, and now the shape of a bean. The scanner was able to pick up what it was made of.

Silicone and rubber, trace amounts of titanium. There was a forth substance marked with a ‘???’, but that was less important. He gave Uzi a wary smile as he showed her the image.

“I think… that's why you're so hungry.”

[hugsandchaos]

The Wild Drones

This AU was inspired by ”The Wild Robot”, and it has some parts of other AUs I’ve made.

The disassembly drones were created by humans, but during their trip to Copper 9, had broken out of containment and made an escape. Since Copper 9 is in the outer reaches of Humanity’s entire system and the disassembly drones destroyed any tracking device, they were soon lost.

A few years later, when the humans decided to try retaking Copper 9 themselves, Uzi would find herself on a transport ship back to Earth. Thanks to some… complications, the ship crash landed on the same planet. Communications were lost, but the tracking device can still be repaired.

The disassembly drones are much more feral now. I wouldn’t say 100% feral, though. In order to ensure that even if they were discovered on this planet, they wouldn’t be overheard, they made up a language of various noises such as clicks and whistles. They were pretty paranoid about being caught during their first year. They still know English, of course.

One scenario I’ve thought of is titled “The Wreck”, which is about N letting his curiosity get the better of him and approach the wreckage of a ship. He found a few dead people and drones, and as he approached one wondering why it didn’t smell as dead as the others, it began to move.

When Uzi woke up, she was faced with a disassembly drone staring at her like she’d grown two heads.

[noridoorman]

"Dissasembly Dad Instincts" Scrapped First Chapter

This was meant to be the first chapter of "Dissasembly Dad Instincts" (previously: Tiny Little Bat/Under my wings) but it didn't focus enough on the N becoming feral part so I decided to scrap it. However, it's still really cute so I'm uploading it here for everyone (It's not proof-read tho!!)

“The tiny little bat woke up, opened its eyes, and saw mom.”

From all the things N ever expected to happen in his life, the grim future of having to put down the drone he recently discovered he loved or letting the entire universe succumb to his selfish wish as his little sister (or something else) destroyed everything and anything in her wake…

Laying on the couch, his wings and arms wrapped securely around Uzi as she read their newly made baby a story out of a children's book was far away from N’s future bingo card. Hell, even before meeting Uzi he thought all his life would be spent killing worker drones and chasing a love that has long been extinguished, leaving nothing but bitter coldness. 

Yet here he is, Uzi's voice softer than usual as she caressed their baby with one hand whilst the other held the book. 

“With tiny little claws it clings, laying in mother’s chest, wrapped in her wings” N’s eyes softened as she looked down at their baby with love and adoration in her gaze. He subconsciously tightened the hug, his hand moving down to stroke the side next to their baby’s visor. 

“And its tiny little body is enveloped in warmth as the father holds them all in one” Uzi's voice progressively gets softer as their baby’s eyes begin blinking slowly. Seeing Uzi so calm and content served as a strong contrast to her earlier freak out when she realized that, 

Yes

They just made a baby. 

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“We have a baby…” Uzi whispered as she, N and Khan walked out of the nursery, holding her baby tight with both her arms securely to her chest. The once serene and content expression contorted into one of fear and surprise as the weight of their decision finally settled in her. “Oh my god, we have a baby!”

“Uzi, is everything alri-”

“We. Made. A. Baby!” Uzi turned fully to N, clutching the baby tight to her stomach. N instinctively reached out, pulling her into his embrace as he wrapped his wings around them. “What am I meant to do? How do I mother?! Heck, I never grew up with one, who should I take as an example, I-”

Uzi’s words were cut off as restless noises emitted from the little pill drone, its expression contorting into one of exhaustion and displeasure. N’s hold on Uzi tightened as Uzi’s own eyes began to widen, a terrified expression in her face.

“Uzi, look at me,” Khan taps her shoulder after N let his wings a little loosen around them yet his grip stayed as tight as ever. “It’s alright, you’ll get the hang of it very soon,”

“I already made him upset!” Uzi’s gaze lingers on the baby as she attempts to bounce him in her arms. 

“Uzi, you didn’t make him upset. He’s tired, see!” Khan points at the baby, its eyes threatening to close completely several times. Khan chuckles at the sight. “It’s normal for them to get this tired after activation!”

“Oh…” Uzi’s shoulder tense, grimacing as she looked at the floor. “And how do I make him… sleep?”

“Bounce him a bit, or sing a lullaby, your mom used to do that for you!” The images of Uzi singing their baby to sleep, bouncing him up and down near his nursery made N feel all fuzzy and warm inside. “Or maybe read him out of a book,”

“A book?” Uzi raises a brow. “Like… that one children’s book mom used to read to me?”

“Yeah, that for example!” Khan smiled. “In fact, I could go back and retrieve it if you want!”

-

“And its tiny little heart was wrapped in so much love,” Both Uzi and N became aware of the visor of their son displaying “SLEEP MODE”. With a smile, Uzi closed the book, placing it down somewhere on her leg, holding the baby tighter.

“You guys are so adorable,” N whispers, sneaking a kiss on Uzi’s cheek, making her blush up a storm. 

“Pfff, says you!” Uzi whisper-yells. “You’ve been staring at Colt the whole time!”

“I can’t help myself!” N wraps his wings tighter around them two. “He looks like an adorable little pill!”

“N!” Uzi suppressed a chuckle, leaning her head on N’s chest. She sighed, closing her eyes. “We should probably go recharge soon,” She tries to wiggle out of N’s embrace but he tightens it instead.

“We can sleep like that!” 

“N, our charging cables don’t reach all the way to the couch!” Uzi moves around further, finally standing up after N broke the embrace. 

“Awe, you’re no fun,” N pouts, earning a laugh from Uzi.

“At least one of us has to be the responsible one,” Uzi grins. “Especially since we’re now parents,”

“It still sounds so surreal” N stands up from his spot on the couch, standing close in front of Uzi and seeing Colt sleeping in her arms.

“I don’t think it will ever sound less surreal” Uzi sways Colt carefully in her arms, making N feel butterflies in his stomach at the sight. “Even after months of prep…”

“I just know that as long as it's with you we can deal with everything,” N cups Uzi’s face with his hands, feeling the urge to kiss her on her lips as she begins to blush up a storm. He chuckles, his thumbs rubbing comforting circles. “How often did I say that before and how often do you still blush at that?”

“Bite me!” Uzi pouts. “I’m just not used to this much affection yet!”

“I think we should be quieter” N points at Colt which has the Sleep Mode interface glitch as if he was about to wake up. Uzi grimaces, holding Colt tighter as to lull him back into sleep.

“You’re right,” Uzi whispers. “Let’s go,” Uzi nudges her head towards the direction of their bedroom.

[uzidoormanrailgun]

A random disassembly(?) drone appears! "Someone said you call yourself god, therefore. I'ma have to kill you." *Very rabid machine noises*

((OC is Chimera, @a-stoopid-person is my account but current pfp doesn't work well with the character ☠️))

Oh hell nah! I will not be the one dying here!

Uzi let's out feral growling as her wings spread out and her solver is activated

[the-solvers-heart]

V

hehe I love V so this will be fun :D

-Will go batshit feral to protect those she cares about

-Big sister figure to Uzi

-Can see well without her glasses, but would do better if she had them

-Pansexual

-Hates loud noises

-Doesn’t really care for sleeping since drones don’t really need it

-Hates poetry, but hates stuff written by Shakespeare more

-Tries to humor N and usually fails

[absoluteangsty]

Friends? How the hell would that work out in their favor. Most of the Drones act like a feral animal. After the whole meeting with N, seem like they lost a little bit of themselves. Took a while when Uzi saved N from the virus. Then he actually started to act more like a normal drone than the other two. V was probably the most feral of them all. Something didn't seem quite right in that department. The drones kept on going and going until they halted. Maybe they are trying to seem like they are having a normal covo with one another.

"I find it hard to believe that these drones have a personality out side of murdering. Why can't they be like N in a way. Who can actually feel something- Wait... I think something is happening."

The small drone spoke while she listen carefully at her surroundings. Sound of mechanical noises... Lots and lots of legs...? Yuck if she had skin it would be crawling at this point it time. Sounds like a large robotic bug. Was that.... J? Making all those weird noises..? Vanessa wasn't kidding about her being a mechanical bug.

"Yeah, I could say so, but that doesn't mean I particularly enjoy it... most of the time."

Vanessa wasn't sure how to explain what she had been up to, now and in the distant past... or even how she sometimes still feels like this is all a particularly weird dream she was having.

I doubt she'd want to comment about the whole zombie drone debacle... since it was an entirely preventable measure that really shouldn't have been an issue at that point, but she could totally see corporate meddling coming up with such a thing just to cause problems for research and entertainment value.

"Honestly, if there wasn't the whole... trying to kill one another thing and all the glaring going on, I could have seen me and her actually being friends at some point, but... I think it's a bit late at this point."

Funny time to say it right now, but she had been watching them all from a distance with a parabolic microphone and a camera with a telescopic lens between her own little hunts. It wasn't too hard to guess that there was more going on... yet it wasn't easy to put that into words.

[candystudios11037]

Overheat (N x Reader fluff)

Context: it's been a good while sense you, Uzi, N, and V we're banished from the Robo bunker, and we're now on your own. V sees Uzi as their new leader sense she killed J and might be turning into a murder drone herself, that's my theory at least.

Now with that context out of the way, let's get to the story!

Enjoy

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We last left our robot team at the pilot. You all know how it happens so I'm not going to explain it. Uzi, holding her sick as hell rail gun out ready to shoot any other murder drones that show up, V who is now on their side, Y/N who had tagged along, and N who was not doing so hot. His face is was starting to turn red. Was was it?

Uzi looks back at the team and noticed this.

"Hey, N! Are you doing ok? Your all red."She asked him.

N all hot and woozy responds "Y-yeah! I'm totally fine, don't worry!.." As he said that a red explanation mark-triangle appeared on his face , indicating that he was not fine.

Y/N looked at him with concern then looks at V, "What's wrong with him V?!" You asked concerned, looking at the only other murder drone here.

"Worker drones are so stupid. He's overheating dumbass!" V said annoyed, as if we should have known that already.

"N-no guys!..- I-I'm fiiiine-...."  N said all glitchy, with his face switching back and forth from the red mark, his normal eyes, and a yellow X.

"Oh yeah, he did mention that before. Shit, we need to find one oil soon before he dies-"

"Or he kills you both!" V exclaimed, rudely cutting Uzi off.

"O—oh Ri-ihht! Forgot-t to men-men-mention that! Haha-ha." N said even more glitchy.

"Wait, what?!" Y/N said while moving slightly away from N.

V rolls her eyes. "Do they teach you Robo rejects anything in that bunker?! It's sort of like a humans "Fight or Flight" instinct, except if we do end up going feral and not get any oil, then we will die." Uzi's and Y/N's eyes widen and they start to panic, Uzi keeping a level head while Y/N is very expressive with their panicking.

"Alright then! Before N turns on us, we need to find some left over Worker Drones and extract their oil for you and N. Y/N and I will he's out, V, stay with N! I'm sure he won't hurt you sense your also a disa-"

"OH HELL NO! I AM NOT TAKING CARE OF THAT PIECE OF SHIT!" V unfolded her wings grabs Y/N and shoves her towards N and stands next to Uzi. "Y/N is gonna babysit him. I wanna go hunt!" She yelled. N feeling a bit sad after hearing that, but can't express it at the moment. Uzi stepped back a bit.

"That's not a good idea V! N could kill them if we take to long!" V scoffed, "Is that really a bad thing? I mean, they could be a necessary sacrifice!" Uzi looks at Y/N. "I'm not gonna make them stay with him if he's gonna kill them!-" Y/N cute Uzi off.

"No, it's ok. I can stay with N. Besides, I'm a lot stronger than I look!" They said with pride while Uzi looked at them with an "are you sure about that" face.

"Are you sure? You might die." Y/N nods at Uzi.

"I'm sure! You two should get going! I don't wanna die here. Haha..." They said jokingly.

Uzi, reluctantly agreed and her and V left. After they left N's legs went limp and he fell face first into the snow. Y/N quickly turned around.

"Oh god. Here let me help you up." Y/N said as they put N's arm around they're shoulder and lifted him up. "You can walk, right?" They asked.

"L-Legs are all n-n-mu-num...- S-sir-sorry..." N apologized. Y/N smiles at him. "No, it's alright. It's not something you can just control. We should find some shelter though. I mean, your out of commission and I'm just a worker drone." Y/N starts looking around for a cave or something. "Ha-Haa-ha. We-were like sitt-shit-sitting Duc-Ducks..-"

"There!" Y/N points to a cave. -which is an old building- They both went in and Y/N gently sits N down then sits across from him. A few minutes of silence and glitchy noises pass. N hands start glitching. Switching from his knife hands and his regular one. Y/N starts getting nervous.

"Y-you- sho-shooBZzz..-should Lea-leaf- leave me..- I-I ao-wouldn't..- w-ant to kil-hurt- bzzz- YouBzzZ!-...-" N said even more glitchy. Y/N looked at him with concern. "No way! Your my friend, and I would never just leave you when you could die!"

"B-but if yo-yoZzz- you st-ay yo-u cou-BzzZz-ld d-sit-die!..-" N was really concerned, and was clearly holding back. It won't be long until he goes feral and kill Y/N. Y/N felt a chill run down they're robot spine, they hate seeing N like this, and seeing they're guys spread out across the snow. Then Y/N has an idea.

“Hey, N. If you want, you could have some of my oil.” They asked nervously. N was shocked for a moment. “Bzz! A-re yo-you sir-sure!?..-“

Y/N nods at him, holding out their arm for him and bracing themselves. “J-just be sure to use your saliva to fix it, ok?” They said all nervous. Without a word N hungrily made his way to

Y/N and used his tail needle to make a puncture into their arm. Y/N winced in pain from it as oil starts to flood out, which made N’s face go from that red glitchness to red with the yellow X and he hungrily starts licking and sucking it. Y/N felt both a pain and another feeling rise in them. Somewhat fear but also a bit of arousal. N gripped into your arm, then the grip got tighter. He seems to be losing it.

Y/N took note of this.

“H-hey, you ok N- ACK!-“ N’s tail struck Y/N’s shoulder and made a slash! Y/N yelps in pain. “N! W-WHAT ARE YOU-“ Before they would say another word, N launched himself on top on Y/N and started to lick and suck the floods of oils just pouring out of Y/N shoulder. His wings start twitching as if he was ready to start flying. Y/N tried to push him off but he was much stronger. Groaned and winched as N starting biting at the slash, then sticking his though tongue in the slash, Y/N felt his saliva start healing the slash but with N’s constant biting, it keeps getting damaged. Y/N started to feel weak. Was this it? Was this their death?

As Y/N started to fade back and forth from blacking out, N’s face turned back into its normal color and his eyes returned to normal. He takes a minute to realize what he had done and starts to panic. “Y/N! I-I’m so sorry! I don’t know what came over me!” He apologized while starting to sit up. “I-it’s fine… you didn’t have control over yourself. Hahe…”

N sits Y/N against the wall. “Here, let me fix these for you.” He said as he took Y/N’s arm and starts to lick it, and they’re arm starts to mend back together. Then moves to their shoulder and fixes that.

“Again, I am so sorry. You must have been terrified. If I hadn’t snapped back, I would have killed you.” He kept apologizing, a tear starting to form. Y/N’s strength started to come back, they wiped away N’s tear. “Hey it’s ok. You had no control. It’s all good!” They give him a reassuring smile. N then hugs them tightly. Y/N pats him on his back.

“Y-you know. If your low on oil… you could always have some of mine.” They told. Slightly blushing. N looked back at them. “Are you sure your ok with that?” Y/N nods. “Of course. I like you a whole lot, and I don’t want to see you hurt. Much like you don’t want me hurt!”

A hue of blue formed on N’s face. “O-oh! Uhh! Sure, I-if it’s ok with you that is!”

Y/N pats his head and N moves to sit next to

Y/N.

After all that, the one thing going through

Y/N’a mind is {WHY WAS THAT KINDA HOT?!}

And hour later.

Uzi and V came back and found them in the cave. And saw That N was back to normal.

“He-ey! Your not dead! Good for you.” She said sarcastically. Uzi looked at N confused. “How did you turn back?” Y/N looked at N, wondering what he would say.

“O-oh! Uh- Y-Y/N found some while we we’re looking for shelter! Hehe…”

“She Found some?” Uzi questioned, is suspicious of the two of them.

Y/N chimed in, “Y-yeah! While looking I found some corpses with oil in them.”

“And you didn’t leave me any?! That’s bullshit!” V yelled all angrily. “Sorry V, N had all of it. But hey he’s back to normal now! Hehe..”

“That’s true. We should be sure to have some oil on hand in case this happens again.” Uzi ordered, N and Y/N gave her a salute. “Yes ma’am!” N said with a smile.

Uzi then grabbed both N and Y/N and brought them up. “Let’s get going!” They both nod and they all set off on another adventure!

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The End!

Smut version coming soon!

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[dronebiscuitbat]

Oil is Thicker Then Blood (Part 19)

“What the hell is this about a kid!” V burst into N's apartment without any warning the next day, as they were discussing how to handle heading to the party. Among other things.

Tera almost immediately began to wail at the sudden noise, making the irate disassembler shut up and stiffen like she'd been slapped with a board.

“Shhh! It's okay Tera.” Uzi immediately went to work in calming the pillbaby down since she had been in her arms (ya know, attached) V looked starstruck, and N glared at her for a moment before sighing.

“Yes V, I adopted a baby.” N clarified, coming up to stand by Uzi and look down at his daughter, making sure she calmed down.

Tera slowly calmed down, Uzi rocking her gently until the wail calmed down into sniffles, N finished it off with a boop to the visor which made her last sniffle turn into a light laugh.

“When?! Why wasn't I the first to know!” V whisper-screamed at the both of the, eyes darting between Uzi and N and both pairs of claws pointing at the ceiling.

“It kinda happened too fast? And uh, we kinda wanted to keep it to ourselves for awhile…? N replied, closing the gap between him and V nervously.

“We?” She crossed her arms and lifted an eyebrow at them.

“I'm listed as a caretaker. Why do you think I'm even here?” Uzi asked sarcastically, lifting Tera up to show off the short cable attached to her side.

“There's a psychopath out there, Uzi could go feral at any moment. And you decide to bring a baby into this!” She seethed, her tail sticking straight up like a flagpole, looking almost like she was pleading.

“It-it wasn't like we weren't thinking about that V. But Tera needed me-us!” He explained, gesturing back to both Tera and Uzi, who looked a little insulted at V's words. But kept her mouth shut.

“Needed? That kid would literally be safer buried under snow then with any of us. If you've forgotten, Doll wants all of us dead.”

“Yeah I know! And maybe she would be safer with someone who wasn't involved, but there was no guarantee that anyone else could take care of her!” Both N and V's voices were steadily rising again, and if Tera's face was anything to go by, she wasn't liking it.

“Enough!” Uzi's voice cracked above both of them, N immediately fell silent and looked back at her face all sorts of apologetic, surprisingly V did the same, although crossing her arms and looking petty as she did.

“You two can argue all you want about it. But not here, and not in front of Tera, Got it?”

“Sorry Zi…” Came from N as he rubbed the back of his head.

“When did you get so motherly?” Came from V as she pointed at the purple drone with a single claw pointing out at her.

“Bite me V. I'm serious.”

V made a noise of indignation, but seemed to concede. Side eyeing N but falling quiet for a moment.

“Did you want to see her V? I know you didn't come here just to chew us out.” Uzi asked after a moment, although rather awkwardly, she still wasn't sure how to “be nicer” very well, but she was trying.

V looked surprised for a moment, her claws even turning back into normal hands for a moment so she could rub them together.

“I could totally come here just to chew you two out!” She recovered, trying to snarl back, but it was rather unsuccessful in trying to look intimidating without her claws.

Uzi lifted a brow, and through grumbles V approached her, and Uzi unplugged Tera from herself before gently placing the little droneling in her arms.

“Uh… hi?” It was clear V didn't know how to interact with children, much less a baby, as she wasn't exactly holding her right, nor did she sound all that confident.

Tera looked back at her curiously, eyes drifting from her visor to her face and to her tail twitching behind her. She almost looked as if she was suspicious of her.

“That's V, Tera, she's uh… kinda your aunt.” N came up behind V, hovering over both women (because he's so damn tall) and speaking gently. V shot him a glare that said “I'm her what?”. But he just smiled and flicked his eyes back to Tera.

Tera spent another moment focusing on V's features before she smiled at her, rolling into her chest to hug her.

Uzi and N both watched as V locked up.

“What is happening…?” She asked slowly, looking taken aback.

“Awww V, she likes you!” N exclaimed, intertwining his own fingers together as he “awwwed”

V looked suddenly a little fearful of the baby now tucked in her arms, and glanced at both N, who was smiling so wide it almost look like it hurt. And then to Uzi, who was so so smug.

“Wipe that stupid grin off you face.” She growled at her, but if anything Uzi's grin just got wider.

“Didn't think I'd ever see you hold a baby V, it suits you.” Uzi teased, being unable to stop herself from antagonizing her, even if was just a little bit.

“Oh shut up.”

A muffled noise came from the pillbaby buried in her jacket, and all three of them looked down curiously, only for Tera to roll out screaming happily:

“Vee!”

“She's starting to learn names really quickly.” N pointed out, looking proud.

V however looked like someone had stabbed her in the chest, a warped smile on her face and a golden blush sneaking up on her visor, eyelights hollow as she stared down at the droneling.

“You can say she's cute V.” Uzi laughed, seeing the was V's hold on Tera got much better after the baby said her name.

“I-I Uh-No! She's not!”

“Vee!” Tera said again, rolling around in said drones arms violently, and then giggling like crazy.

“Here!” She thrust Tera into N's arms before distancing herself quickly, facing away from both of them.

“I uh, have more important things to do!” V almost shouted as she quickly exited the apartment without so much as a goodbye. And Uzi couldn't help but laugh at the display.

And she thought she didn't want to be seen being soft.

“Well… that went…okay?” N spoke up after a minute of silence, a lopsided smile on his face as he touched his face, either out of amusement or relief he wasn't sure.

“As well as it could've.” Uzi shrugged before holding the front of her visor, the pressure in her head had grown over the last several days, with all the craziness going on, it was starting to get to her.

“Hey, try not to sweat it too much. It's why were going to this party right? De-stress?”

“Maybe it isn't a good idea? I m-mean V is kinda right for once. I'm not exactly-”

Before she could finish, N placed a hand over hers and squeezed gently, shutting her up immediately.

“It'll be fine. And even if it isn't, I'll be there yeah?” She blushed, looking away from him for a moment before returning with her own gentle squeeze, looking him in the eyes and smiling.

He found himself smiling back before the flutter of nerves in his core got the better of him and he removed it, looking away even though his tail was wagging rapidly.

She had to feel the same way right? The hug and now…this? This wasn't something that was normal for her. Wanting to be close, meeting his physical affection with her own.

The only real way to be sure was to tell her.

“En?”

Tera’s voice brought him out of his thoughts again, for once resting in his arms without rolling around, he smiled down at her, nuzzling her chassis and making her squeal in delight.

“Easy Jellybean.” He hummed, and Uzi laughed at the nickname, looking at him inquisitively.

“Jellybean?”

“Yeah! She's cute and sweet and bean shaped!

She rolled her eyes but laughed just the same, coming up to his side to gaze down at Tera as well, as she smiled back up at them, seemingly content.

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