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The long hallways seemed endless..stretching- growing further and further with each step she took.
How is this possible? What is and or isn't possible anymore? First Isekai, she can breathe in areas without oxygen, she can access the Solver without having been infected or being a machine.
A sudden weight felt like it pressed her chest as her brain threw around ideas like 1 dollar bills at a stripper.
Getting to the end of one long hallway led to another to her disappointment but hey atleast this new hallway had doors..atleast..
She continued her slow pace down the grey, swaying hall to where? Home? To her personalized purgatory?
Stopping she saw a door slightly cracked open and with curiousity begging for answers she pushed it open.
Just like the other door it creaked and groaned in complaints before resting on against the wall and upon entering she found herself in a massive library.
'why do all rich people need excessively large libraries?' (Y/n) shook her head before walking on to traverse the twists and turns of the wooden maze.
Her eyes strained against the darkness of the library, it's massive shelves blocking out the moon which was her only source of light..no matter..human eyes can adjust for a reason..
Though even with her eyes dilating to the dark she still couldn't see through every shadow cast.
Finally after the constant turning she got to what seemed like the center of the library..huh..guess she took a side entrance..peering out into the open space what first catches her attention is a-.. Hatch..a fucking..hatch..with a lock and a powered down drone standing over top of it..
"There's..no actually way..right?" She felt her heart race and her palms sweat, of course it wasn't coincidence that this place looked like the Elliot manor..because it was.
But the only times the manor appeared in the series was when N had his nightmare and when Uzi removes Cyn's control over the murder drones memories.
It has something to do with her Solver activating it had to there can't be any other way..her fingers curled into her palms, the nails digging into the slightly callouse skin as her knuckles whitened.
This is all just an illusion right? Some mind trick- her Solver hurt her before when she healed herself so that isn't to far fetched of an idea.
Walking forward she began to check the ceiling, her sudden realization making her enter a state of hyper-vigilance.
'Ok..ok..Uzi had been able to restore their memories by getting inside the basement with N and V.' (Y/n) Gently picked up the powered down V, unlike in the show, V's visor wasn't flashing its 'ERROR: 606'.
She cradled the limp drones head in one hand and placed her on the ground near the left of the hatch. 'But..it's not their memories i'm in..these memories belonged to this body..'
"let's..just hope it works the same.." She said in a failing attempt to soothe her electrified nerves as she walked back over to the hatch and pulled the carpet covering off.
She let out an annoyed 'Ughh.' at the sight of the metal lock on it. "Why would anything be easy.." Getting up and turning around she went to exit the library-
"What am i doing?" She laughed. "I'm strong!" Walking back over she gripped the lock in one hand and crushed it with minimal effort, throwing the broken lock somewhere behind her, she flipped the hatch open descending into darkness.
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"Buddy..?" N spoke with nervous tone lacing his words, his eyes saw a black Solver ingraved on her unturned arm..
(you can find the picture to the solvers on my wattpad which is the same user as this account :]])
It looked..strange..the white markings on the Solver's center made it look like an eye, an eye that was staring right at him.
He took a very- very hesitant step forward, inching closer, at this moment his concern out-weighed his fear as the almost tar like substance leaked from (Y/n)'s eyes and mouth, dripping on to the snow.
"(Y/n)..?" Was this normal for humans? Did she need medical attention? Thoughts of the worst outcomes raced through his processor as his cold metal hands finally made contact with- even colder skin?
"(Y/n)!!?" Seeing no reason to his touch both hands went to her shoulders, shaking the woman in front of him with complete panic.
"What's wrong with you?!" Was this his fault again? Just like what happened in the Cryo Chamber when he didn't protect her from the explosion? Just like when he hurt her and Uzi when they broke into the Colony?
(Y/n) gave no response, her body almost completely lax in his hold. "We're getting you help!" Picking her up he took off towards the corpse spire.
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V was hunched over in her chair powered off, she spent most of her time like that unless she was going to meet up with Lizzy when N was out finding oil or powered down.
Suddenly she jolted upright, something spooked het out of stasis..and she was not happy.
With a tooth-baring sneer she glared at the entrance hatch to the pod almost daring whatever was outside to come in.
".....!" Something was..speaking? Outside? "Ugh it's N again, moron probably scared himself with his own shadow or something." V said to herself dismissively and with an eyeroll almost powered down again..
Almost-
Anddddd the hatch got kicked open making her head snap towards the opening. "V!" N yelled as he dropped inside and landed with his back to her, not caring the close the entrance as black liquid dripped in front of him.
"Are you leaking? Don't get it in the pod!-" V felt her words die in her throat as N turned around and the poor guy looks like hes about to short-circuit from a heart attack.
In his arms was..the human? She was limp in N's hold, her wings scrapping the metal floor of the crashed Pod as that same black liquid pooled out of her eyes and mouth.
"What's wrong with it?" "Her, V! And i don't know!" N corrected her before putting (Y/n) down on the floor next the wall. "W-we were fighting because she asked and i said yes and i was being careful not to injure her and i thought she would move when i went at her with my claws but she didn't- and now she's like this!!"
N word vomited in panic, his hands gripping his head he looked like he was going to start hyperventilating. "Well- why would you bring her here?! Why not back to the Colony!?"
"Because we are dangerous! They won't let us in!" "And how do you know that?!" The two began arguing. "Because of what happe!!-"
A raspy inhale froze the two as their heads snapped towards (Y/n), her head moved weakly back before going limp again.
"You need to keep and eye on her V!" V looked almost offended..she's not a human babysitter. "Why me?!" "Because your chained in here and i need to go look for medical supplies!"
V wished to retort that she wasn't stuck but bit her tongue, that's information she can't reveal just yet. "Fine." She said angrily. "But you better be back soon."
N smiled before climbing up the ladder, before reaching the top he stopped. "Oh and if she starts coughing roll her onto her side! I read somewhere that's apparently to help humans from choking!" And with that he left them alone.
V heard sound of N taking off, whether he went to scavenge or to get medical supplies from the Colony she didn't care.
She looked at the defenseless human on the ground..(Y/n) knew V had been meeting with Lizzy without N's knowledge..she could ruin her plan..so easily could she let it die and not care- why did that not make her feel good.
She frowned. "So what? It'll die from something anyway, time, disease, itself..." She spun around in her chair, back facing the human as she smiled with malice.
"Not like you're important to anyone." slowly her grin faded, using the glass in front of her to sneak glances at the unconscious?... Sure..unconscious girl.
What was wrong with her? Why did she not get the same joy from saying those things to her? V comtemplated her thoughts.
"Whatever." V resigned, spinning back around with her arms crossed. "Only doing this so i don't have to deal with N's whining if you die." That was a lie, but she wouldn't admit that out loud.
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She dropped into the celler, the only sound bring her shoes hitting the hard flooring. "oh..joy.." She laid eyes on the lobotomized and decapitated butler N in the chair strapped in, his head on a surgery tool cart. (idk what the actual name is.)
Dried oil covered the walls and as she followed the trail she saw piles of drone heads with massive teeth and metal crab claws.
In the other corner she recognize a decapitated V in her butler outfit, one of her hands was a white claw and the same leathery wings Uzi would have were resting above where the head should be.
"This makes me feel worse for them..this shit would be traumatic for a human.." turning around she saw..a massive flesh tunnel..a gaping wound in the earth through the wall.. (THROUGH THE WINDOOWW THROUGH THE- okay im sorry.)
"That..wasn't there before.." She felt like Rose in resident evil, going through the memories of the village through megamcycete..nothing felt like it should.
"I don't believe it's safe to venture into uhh..am i even allowed to say that?" (Y/n) took a step away from the massive gaping maw and froze..
She heard..skittering? Like something sharp moving around on hard wood floor- is that above her? She looked up at the open hatch before walking just under it.
Fuck it, she was done being scared and she wanted answers, spreading her wings she jumped up, using the talons on them to hook to the edge of the hatch and haul herself up.
Grabbing the wood with her arms she noticed that where she placed Maid V there was no longer a V. "Fantastic..i get the full experience..yipee..ugh."
Standing upright she looked around, maybe she could put V out of commission before she mutates..
She heard skittering behind her and whipped around to see V with her bat wings and sharp teeth clinging to the wall, the visor finally displaying that signature yellow X.
(Y/n) stared back with animosity, with each crack of thunder followed by lightning, the strikes illuminating the otherwise dark library.
V lunged first, monstrous and normal hands extended in a grab with teeth bared met with the hard impact of a sharp talon to her side, the force changing her course (that rhymes.) making her crash into one of the many large shelves.
The shelf had caved from the impact, the wood breaking as books tumbled down onto V, walking forward (Y/n) stopped just before the pile waiting to see if any moment would occur.
Sifting through the books she haphazardly threw them before she uncovered Maid V, her body sparking in some places as oil leaked from her side.
Picking her up definitely gave a reaction as V swung with her clawed fingers, raising her arm to protect herself she braced for pain.
There was nothing..opening her eyes, (Y/n) stared at the claws against her forearm- her ink black forearm. The metal shook against her arm in an attempt to simply brute force damage.
Seeing it not working (Y/n) held out her other hand and activated her Solver, using it to suspend V mid air, whilst she wriggled around like a worm (Y/n) took her eyes off her to exam her arm..but it was gone.
As soon as it came it left...anndd confusion, the closest thing she could relate this to was Venom..except she didn't have an alien symbiote.
"Your come along with me." without waiting for an answer she turned and walked out of the library, V floating in her Solver's hold behind her.
It's time to find a way out of here.
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This chapter will have a part 2 as a continuation simply yall don't want an 8k word piece of paper to read ✋️😭
But think of this as a treat for me being gone for a hot minute! Hope yall like it
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