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Uzi hummed as she walked towards the corpse spire. While V and N were allowed in the bunker, they usually stayed there instead. N had been distraught when he saw the ship destroyed, which V said according to Lizzy was an act of sabotage by J, but the three of them had managed to build a nice little home using the remains. She strutted through the door, just in time to see N’s head destroyed by V’s laser.
“V?! What the hell?!” She said staring in disbelief at his now headless body.
“He wanted help testing something.” V said with a shrug, sitting down in a chair. “At first I didn’t want to, but now I’m actually curious too.”
“Testing what?”
“You’ll see.” She replied with a grin as N’s head finished regrowing. He blinked before taking off his hat and grabbing another hat with a sticky note labeled original from a pile.
Wait what? Uzi did a double take at the pile of identical pilot hats she had somehow missed when she entered. Where did they get those? She wondered.
“Any differences this time?” V asked casually as N inspected the hats.
“The pilot emblem is 3% smaller on the new one.” He said after a while. A high temp warning flashed on his screen. “We might have to put the testing on hold though.” V rolled her eyes before grabbing a worker arm she had beside the chair and handing it to him. “Thank you!” N said with a smile before quickly draining the arm of oil.
“Can one of you explain what you’re doing now?” N jumped at Uzi’s voice.
“Oh, hi Uzi.” He smiled once he realized who it was, tail wagging in excitement. “When I was flying earlier, the wind blew my hat off and I got so distracted trying to grab it I accidentally ran into a building and lost my head. But when it grew back, I had a hat on my head and one in my hands.”
“So he asked me to cut off his head a bunch to see if it would keep growing new hats.” V added. “And if they would be different if it did.”
“Wanna help?”
Uzi thought about it for a few seconds. “If you want to test the limits properly, you can’t just keep cutting his head off.” She pointed towards the exit. “I’ll go grab my rail gun and some more snacks.”
“Thank you!” N smiled and hugged her excitedly.
“Only you would thank someone who just said they were grabbing a weapon to blast your head off.” She said with a fond chuckle. Her face erupted in a bright blush as N kissed her cheek. She pushed him away before bolting out the door and sprinting back to the bunker. Ignoring the confused looks she was getting, she weaved her way through the halls and back to her home, slamming the door open.
“Heyit’smeI’mbackIjustneedtograbmyrailgunandsomesnacksforusokayI’mheadingbackoutbye!” She yelled to her parents as she quickly grabbed the supplies before darting back out the door, slamming it again. Making it back to the spire in record time, she slid through the door and struck a pose, earning applause from N and an eye roll from V. “Alright.” She held her rail gun up triumphantly. “Let’s get this testing started for real.”
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“Wait, what are we going to do with all the hats?” They had been testing for hours when V asked the question. The trio looked at each other before all turning to the large pile of hats that had been accumulating without any of them really realizing.
“I thought you guys had a plan. This whole thing was your idea.”
“It was N’s, not mine.”
“I was too excited thinking about the hats.”